Post Muskalyptic Poets
Poets looking for other poets. People who run presses. Keeping the conversation going. Good eggs.
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@concordmoose.bsky.social
@adamhughespoetry.bsky.social
Poet, writer, rugby player, actor, playwright, educator, performer, ADHD, husband, father, exvangelical. Author of THIS IS RUGBY and PLUCK (forthcoming in 2025 from BOA Editions)
@chadpie.bsky.social
Poet, teacher and co-host of Rise Up! Northern Writers’ Award: Debut Poet. York, UK Some words: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/scorpion 🦂
@hopeswhisperpoetry.bsky.social
Poet & writer ✍️ sharing words to wash the worries away, find the 🌈through the heaviest rain☔. Even in the darkest of days, Hope Gently Whispers you could try again. (Mum to an Angel, and Author of Finley's Footprints 👣)
@poet-pratibha1.bsky.social
Award winning poet. Pushcart/BOTN nom. Miniskirts in The Waste Land PBS winter 2023. Bridport s’list, Welsh Comp highly commended, 3rd prize Cannon also Plaza comps. Indigo Dreams l’list. Agenda, Stand, Tears in the Fence, Orbis forthcoming Under The Radar
@wendypratt.bsky.social
Author: The Ghost Lake Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk Editor: Spelt Magazine https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
@nmoliverpoetry.bsky.social
I'm a husband, dad and reader & writer of poems, from Ireland. I have poems in various journals and a couple of published pamphlets. You can buy them here https://niallmoliverpoetry.bigcartel.com/
@niaandthepoems.bsky.social
Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize winner 2023, ‘Backalong’ out now with Bloodaxe. Poet in Residence at Painshill Park with ACE. Co-Head of English. Brass bander. Somerset sonneteer. Cheese fan. Hi!
@carcanet.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social. 🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
@jrcarpenter.bsky.social
artist, performance writer, poet, practice-led researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com
@ninaparmenter.bsky.social
Poet, performer, wage slave, dog slave, mum. Has somehow been put in charge of Trowbridge Poetry Stanza. Collection ‘Split, Twist, Apocalypse’, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2022.
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
Welsh poetry press based in Swansea with a focus on imagist poetry. Edited by Matthew M C Smith
@poetrylondon.bsky.social
London’s Leading Poetry Magazine. Autumn 2023 Issue 106 OUT NOW. https://poetrylondon.co.uk/
@modronmagazine.bsky.social
Biannual online eco-poetry magazine. Edited by Kristian Evans and Zoe Brigley, with Taz Rahman, Sian Melangell Dafydd, and Glyn Edwards. http://ModronMagazine.com
@petitecreature1.bsky.social
Poet ~ Nominated for Pushcart and Forwards (Best 1st Collection) ~ Pamphlets with Hedgehog & The Broken Spine ~ Commended in Poetry Society Stanza Comp 2024 ~ First Collection "Daughter of Fire" out now with Yaffle Press! ~ www.lucyheuschen.co.uk
@ellafrears.bsky.social
Poet etc. Books - Goodlord & Shine, Darling Hosts Tears for Frears & Stress Test on Soho Radio RLF Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art
@cwjoneschris.bsky.social
Read more of other people’s poems, that’s all I’m saying. Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Published by the magnificent Longbarrow press. I share a house through the summer with nesting swifts. Podcast: https://twowaypoetry.podbean.com/
@janeburn.bsky.social
Poet, Writer, Artist, Maker. Person with Autism. Person with a hEDS. Kindness is so very important. Bios are difficult! I do much writing on https://burnj.substack.com/
@godzillakent.bsky.social
Working Class Poet/Writer | Publisher of @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | The Working Classic (2023, the87press) | Awen Medal | Stroke Survivor | he/him | Agent: Kate Rizzo (Greene & Heaton)
@jpseabright.bsky.social
genderqueer genrefluid writer of things #pwME 🏳️🌈🇪🇺📚 MotherFlux | Not Your Orlando | White Cloud Over Purple | what are you afraid of? OUT NOW! Co-editor of https://effable.uk https://linktr.ee/jpseabright https://jpseabright.com
@atarbuck.bsky.social
Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they.
@vikshirley.bsky.social
Poet/Writer. PhD Dark Humour and the Surreal. Most recent publications Strangers Wave: Joy Division Photo Poems (zimZalla) & Notes from the Underworld (Sublunary Editions) Co-edits Surreal-Absurd Mercurius Mag, Associate Editor Sublunary Editions.
@hannahl1n.bsky.social
Poet Devon, UK 1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html
@jntod.bsky.social
Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
Poet 💡 PhDing, Exeter RENEW Biodiversity 🌿 'Mingle' - Nine Arches ☣️ 'The Coin' - Broken Sleep 🪙 Bristol City Poet, '20-22 🦄 Ecopoetry, queer ecologies 🐙 Music, dancing, DJing 🎶 Say hello 👋🏼 https://linktr.ee/CalebParkin
@samillingworth.com
Professor of Creative Pedagogies | Poet | Game Designer | Bridging creativity and communities through poetry, games, and GenAI. #SciComm #HigherEd #Poetry https://linktr.ee/sam.illingworth
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc Nature, climate, people. Prof at Cambridge. https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
@clareshawpoet.bsky.social
Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent.
@karendownsbarton.bsky.social
Writer, Minx (@chattobooks), Didicoy (The Poetry Business), Elise Dillsworth agency, I am a mentor, Creative Future steering committee, @kcl.ac.uk, workshop leader Shakespeare and Race. Proudly working class and neurodiverse. #PoetsOnBluesky #MinxOnTheRoad
@lucyenglish.bsky.social
Spoken word poet, novelist, poetry filmmaker. Professor of Creative Enterprise, co-director of Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. Loves trees. https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0034P8U64 https://canceralleyproject.com https://thebookofhours.org
@carrieetter.bsky.social
Poet and novelist, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at U of Bristol | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
@julwe1.bsky.social
Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'The Telling' (Nine Arches press, 2022). https://juliawebb.org/ https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/ https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
@pollyrowena.bsky.social
Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller. FRSL hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs she/her rep @PortyLiterary Basic Nest Architecture Much with Body Recovering Dorothy Some Of Us Just Fall The Company of Owls https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
@katefoxwriter75.bsky.social
Stand-up poet. Radio 4’s The Verb regular. Northern, neurodivergent writer of Northernness and Neurodivergence. “On Sycamore Gap” & “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” (Harper North). “Bigger on the Inside” (Smokestack).
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: [email protected] | Founded: 2018 Website: brokensleepbooks.com
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis. https://longbarrowpress.com
@poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social
poet . sound artist . fiction maker . re- thinker . speaks and writes . in various ways . walker . balancer . stroller . climber ...
@petegreensolo.com
poet, musician, place writer, beachcomber / edgelander, sarahlander, north briton / middle-aged enby babe / legacy fan / high-functioning anxiety doughnut / chive lying flat / wrongly tagged as twee Sheffield they/them please, ta 💖 petegreensolo.com
@kathleenjamie.bsky.social
Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more. https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet
@pascalepetit.bsky.social
BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
@helenivory.bsky.social
Poet, artist. Cholmondeley Award winner. Sixth Bloodaxe collection, 'Constructing a Witch' is a PBS Winter Recommendation. I make collage and shadowboxes from broken things. I shout poems at the moon about the dark.
@ralphdartford.bsky.social
Poet and human. 3rd collection, ‘House Anthems’ out now with Valley Press. Studying PHD at the University of Huddersfield. Editor at www.northerngravy.com
@concordmoose.bsky.social
Disabled Poets Prize 2024 ‘Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed’ https://bit.ly/3X1A8aQ ‘Skin the Rabbit’ out @The Braag 26/3/25. Writes about rivers, absurdity & time +Arts Council £. Half poet, half tutor, half clown. Sheffield. www.susiewilsonpoet.com