Australian Poets starter pack
Poets who work in or hail from Australia.
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@jangleresse.bsky.social
@rosannamcglone.bsky.social
Writer, mum, journalist. Feisty Females Medieval short stories: https://rosanna-mcglone.sumupstore.com/product/feisty-females The Process of Poetry, Amazon no.1. The Making of a Poem. Journalist The Guardian, SMH, The Australian and Salon.com
@australianpoetry.bsky.social
Based in Melbourne on Wurundjeri lands of the Kulin nations, we run publications, events and programs to strengthen poetry and poets across the nation. australianpoetry.org
@eileenchongpoet.bsky.social
Poet. Author of 11 books, most recently 🌸 We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025) 🌸 eileenchong.com.au (she/her) 🍉
@spmpoet.bsky.social
@hellopollyanna.bsky.social
@kerrygreer.bsky.social
The Sea Chest (Recent Work Press), Best of Australian Poems 2024, and more. Wakes with the moon. 🦉🌙
@pamthepoet.bsky.social
Writer, poet, storyteller living and working on unceded Kaurna Yerta, Adelaide, South Australia.
@judithnangala.bsky.social
Poet & visual artist on unceded Yuin Walbunga Country in Australia. Afterlife portraits of animals & birds. Alternative darkroom with drawing & painting. Grainger Gallery and Anima Mundi. Poetry collections with Puncher & Wattmann. Member of FNAWN & Oculi.
@huitzilihuitl.bsky.social
Writer of poetry and letters, sometimes reviews and essays. https://www.andrewgalan.com.au/
@shastradeo.bsky.social
not active on here bcause im trying to become a linkedin influencer
@jayekranz.bsky.social
Audio producer. Poet. Writer. Work on/in BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, ABC RN, The Monthly, Australian Book review. Poems in: Verse Daily, Cincinnati Review, West Branch, The Florida Review, Best of Australian Poems, Cordite 🌈 https://linktr.ee/jayekranz
@amandamwrites.bsky.social
✒️🎨 Writing and art across genres, loves coffee, loathes noise. https://linktr.ee/AmandaMcLeod
@apoetreadstowrite.bsky.social
I am a poet, critic, & essayist who lives in a tiny home with the love of his life, an ex-racer, rescue greyhound named Billy-Blue. I love to share & be inspired.
@belindarule.bsky.social
Poet, weird cousin, spinster beer aunt. ‘Hyperbole’, Recent Work Press, 2021. Trying to be on here. http://belindarule.com https://recentworkpress.com/product/hyperbole/
@noonessleep.bsky.social
Poet, Translator, & Occasional Philosopher | Books: Venetian Mirrors 2024; The Sepia Carousel 2017; Chains of Snow 2013. Poetry: https://pittstreetpoetry.com/poet/jakob-ziguras/. Philosophy: https://independent.academia.edu/JakobZiguras.
@gregmclaren.bsky.social
Poet and nuisance. A bit autistic. New book, camping underground, is a fun post-apocalyptic verse novel with Puncher & Wattmann.
@raewhite.bsky.social
(they/them) Non-binary trans & queer. Picture book ‘All the Colours of the Rainbow’ w/ Hachette. Poetry collections w/ UQP. Founder: Uplift Poetry & @enbylife.bsky.social. Agent @daniellebinks.bsky.social. More about me: raewhite.net
@dani-netherclift.bsky.social
Essayist and poet. Vessel is out now with Upswell Publishing. Australian, living on never-ceded Taungurung Country. President Mansfield Readers & Writers Festival.
@lisabrockwell.bsky.social
Writer, poodle fancier, Australian in Scotland. Author of Earth Girls (2016) & The Round Ring (2021). Both Pitt Street Poetry.
@kathrynreese.bsky.social
Mostly poet. Also lover of road trips & long walks. Day job in microbiology. Poems in Kelp Journal, Miniskirt magazine, the Engine Idling, & 5 Fleas. 🌈🌊☕️💚
@damenobrien.bsky.social
Poet and father. Not necessarily in that order. Author of 'Walking the Boundary' (Pitt Street Poetry, 2024) and 'Animals With Human Voices' (Recent Work Press, 2022)
@deniseohagan.bsky.social
Poet/editor • Monica Taylor Poetry Prize • NSW Poetry Prize • Dalkey Poetry Prize • Anamnesis (Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist & Rubery Book Award shortlist) • Currently Writer-in-Residence at Don Bank Museum • denise-ohagan.com
@nataliednapo.bsky.social
Writer, educator & songwriter. Winner Bruce Dawe & KSP Poetry Prizes. *New* poetry book IF THERE IS A BUTTERFLY 🦋 out now at: https://t.co/FPFwlIvxvn
@jinghuaqian.com
freelancer emeritum | senior media advisor at economicmediacentre.org | words & shenanigans at jinghuaqian.com | work and also nsfw | ey/eir/em 伊
@shey-poet.bsky.social
Poetry collections (THE HUM HEARERS, Dorothy Hewett Award 2023 shortlist, UWA Publishing 2025); (KEEPER OF THE RITUAL, Noel Rowe Award shortlist, UWA Publishing 2019). Haematology/Molecular Pathology Scientist in a former life. Weimaraner enthusiast/tragic
@stuartabarnes.bsky.social
Curehead, poet, 1/4 of Hell Herons. The Wreck Event, Like to the Lark (Upswell Publishing, 2023), Glasshouses (UQP, 2016) 🏳️🌈 stuartabarnes.com
@cathdrake.bsky.social
writer, poet, facilitator, mindfulness teacher Find inspiration on The Verandah here: https://www.cathdrake.com/ #PoetsOnBluesky
@felicity-plunkett.bsky.social
she / her Poet, critic, editor Vanishing Point, A Kinder Sea, Seastrands, Thirty Australian Poets (ed.)
@nathanael73.bsky.social
Irish-Australian poet & creative writing professor. Author of TERMINALS, SEPARATION BLUES: POEMS 1994-2024, DUBLIN WANDERING, LANDMARKS & thirteen other books. Poetry editor for Antipodes. Husband, father, immigrant, runner, music-lover.
@alisoncroggon.bsky.social
I write words. Award-winning poet, novelist, critic, theatre writer. Arts editor The Saturday Paper. She/her. Living on unceded Yalukit-Willam Country. http://www.alisoncroggon.com/
@aliciasometimes.bsky.social
Poet, broadcaster, love astronomy & quantum physics, sci-art, collaborator
@triciadearborn.bsky.social
Poet. Writer. Editor | Best of Australian Poems 2024 | Guest poetry editor Cordite 112: TREAT (2024) | Latest book Autobiochemistry | Editor at http://triciadearborneditor.com
@jangleresse.bsky.social
Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia Poetry, books, art, history. Resisting the urge to despair.