The Essential Poets
I began publishing poetry in 2017. Moving towards publishing was a journey in itself, and it’s been a journey since, during which I read a lot (still do!) and these poets ‘made’ me.
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@jaydkash.bsky.social
@janeclarke.bsky.social
Poet: 'The River', 'When the Tree Falls', 'A Change in the Air' (Bloodaxe 2015, 2019 & 2023) and ed. 'Windfall: Irish Nature Poems' (Hachette 2023)
@clareshawpoet.bsky.social
Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent.
@marjorielotfi.bsky.social
Writer (The Wrong Person to Ask/ Bloodaxe Books, Forward Prize, James Berry Award, Saltire Prize Shortlist) Co-Founder/Director Open Book, Mentor, writing retreats at Galloway House Estate
@nadialines.bsky.social
Poet, playwright, pest https://nadialines.substack.com/ https://nadialines.weebly.com/
@deanbrowne.bsky.social
Kitchens at Night (Smith|Doorstop, 2022). After Party (Picador, 2025)
@elenacroitoru.bsky.social
Software developer. Writer. The Country With No Playgrounds (LiveCanon). Charles Causley Prize. Shortlisted: Novel Fair Ireland, Bridport, Wasafiri, etc.
@aghashahidali.bsky.social
Preserving poetry and memories of Late Agha Shahid Ali. A Kashmiri poet.
@hannahcopley.bsky.social
Writer and SL in Creative Writing at Uni of Westminster. Author of Speculum (Broken Sleep Books, 2021) and Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry, 2024). 2nd in the Laurel Prize 2024 . Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024. Hosts poetry nights at the Soho Poly.
@profdavidmorley.bsky.social
Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
@sharalessley.bsky.social
Poet, essayist, lover of insects & trees | 📚: The Explosive Expert's Wife, Two-Headed Nightingale, The Poem's Country: Place & Poetic Practice (co-edited w/Bruce Snider) | CNF Ed: West Branch | Consulting Ed: Acre Books | Mentor / 🐾 & human mama | 🏳️🌈
@chelsdingman.bsky.social
Author of Thaw (@ugapress 2017 National Poetry Series) Through a Small Ghost (@ugapress 2020) I, Divided (@lsupress 2023) PhD Candidate @ualberta Poetry editor @sweetliterary
@joriegraham.bsky.social
Resilience requires Imagination. Resistance requires Imagination. Recent book“To 2040”,’23(Laurel Prize for Ecological Writing) Carcanet (UK) Copper Canyon (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).“[To]The Last [Be] Human”,’22.
@jaydkash.bsky.social
Pre-Order NOTES ON BURIALS: http://bit.ly/3EBKSXb • New Poets Prize 2024 • Young Poets Prize WellsLitFest ’21 • Pamphlets (’19, ’20, ’25) • Zine (’21) • 1x Pushcart Nom. • 2x BotN Nom. • 2x Dan Veach Prize Honourable Mention