Some of my favourite poets here
Not definitive just ones I can find
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@pascalepetit.bsky.social
@hironstom.bsky.social
Writes poetry - Sometimes a Wild God, Nettle-Eater, The Queen of Heaven, At the Orphans’ Door, etc. Teaches poetics Runs vision fasts Walks about Father of two beautiful, wild sons Read my work at www.tomhirons.com and buy it at www.feralangels.com
@kostyatsolakis.bsky.social
Poet | 📖 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 (Nine Arches Press), PBS Recommendation, shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize ‘24 & Runciman Award ‘24 | Editor 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺
@jennymitchellgo.bsky.social
Winner of the Gregory O'Donohue Prize, the Poetry Book Awards etc. 3 poetry collections - 'Map of a Plantation' on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan Uni. Widely published. Facilitate poetry workshops for the British Library and British Museum.
@revrachelmann.bsky.social
Priest. Poet. Writer. Broadcaster. Trans. Tired. Disabled. Neurodiverse. (Private Passions: Military History, Austen, Golden Age Detective Fiction) T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted 2024 Archdeacon of Salford & Bolton 15 Books. www.rachelmann.co.uk
@marybid.bsky.social
Writer of poems + small fiction | The Girl with the Black Lipstick (novella-in-flash, Black Lawrence Press, July 25) | Preorder from BLP at https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-girl-with-the-black-lipstick/
@salenagodden.bsky.social
poet & author: latest books ‘Mrs Death Misses Death' 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' 'With Love, Grief and Fury' & ‘Springfield Road’ books & gigs: https://linktr.ee/salenagodden Substack: https://salenagodden.substack
@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.
@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
@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
@niallpoetry.bsky.social
Moontide, Noctuary, The Island in the Sound. Bloodaxe Poetry London
@kristianevans.bsky.social
Welsh writer, poet, editor, ecological thinker & founder of Modron Magazine: @modronmagazine.bsky.social https://www.serenbooks.com/book/100-poems-to-save-the-earth/ https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/zo%C3%AB-brigley-kristian-evans-otherwor
@voxpopulisphere.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, essayist, vegan, peace activist living in Pittsburgh, PA with a beautiful wife and bodhisattva kelpie.
@irisannelewis.bsky.social
Writer (mainly poetry). Poems in Black Bough, High Window, Ink Sweat and Tears, Iamb. First collection 'Amber' published 2024. Founder of the poetry group 'Wordbrew'.
@lukeathompson.bsky.social
Writer / Editor / Lecturer www.lukeathompson.com www.guillemotpress.co.uk
@blossoms21.bsky.social
Hello, I’m a poet and photographer inspired by landscapes and human relationships shortlisted for Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the year 2023 my books are available here pennysharman.co.uk
@jpdancingbear.bsky.social
Editor of Verse Daily, Dog's Heart Press, consultant, foodie, dog dad
@sandysolomon.bsky.social
Writer/poet (Pitt poetry series) who follows politics (however grim), Early Modern English history. At home in Nashville (Vanderbilt) and London.
@dislaney.bsky.social
Animals, nature, poetry. Publisher/editor Candlestick Press. Founder http://www.manorfarmcharitabletrust.org / Winner Plough Prize 2022. Books at Valley Press.
@lorrainemariner.bsky.social
Poet & librarian. Two collections with Picador ‘Furniture’ & ‘There Will Be No More Nonsense’, also writing poems for children. Works at the National Poetry Library. Edited some 10 Poems About… for Candlestick Press. Powered by tea across all platforms.
@minorroarr.bsky.social
Drabbler/Dabbler. Sometimes poet, sometimes energy strategist. Two chapbooks with Live Canon and Poetry International.
@marionmccreadypoet.bsky.social
Writer / poetry - Tree Language, Madame Ecosse (Eyewear Publishing), Look to the Crocus (Shoestring Press, 2023)
@kathleengjones.bsky.social
I'm an author and poet from the English Lake District. Left wing, passionate environmentalist, hater of bullshit www.kathleenjones.co.uk
@anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social
#art #shetlandyarns #cushendall #cockerspaniels #harbours #rhubarbicecream #galleries #ferries #le-marais #chiswick #memoir #nightsky #poetry: making it new with 'No Far Shore: Charting Unknown Waters' (Seren 2019), making it happen at #coffeehousepoetry!
@fionasampson.bsky.social
Writer, poet, Romanticist, critic, librettist, literary translation. Agent: mail@wylieagency.co.uk
@rosiehadden.bsky.social
Poet, weaver, End of Life Doula, conservationist. Living a creative wild life in Cornwall
@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social
Poet, PhD researcher (inter-species creatings). Books: Slant Light; Bloom (Pavilion poetry), Pond (The Braag). Currently into bats 🦇 https://sarahwestcott.co.uk
@adamhorovitz.bsky.social
Writer and performer. Poetry in particular. Books published: Turning, A Thousand Laurie Lees, The Soil Never Sleeps, Love and Other Fairy Tales. Slow Migrations coming soon from Indigo Dreams.
@collagepoet.bsky.social
Working poet, mixed media practitioner, drive-by photoshootist. Lover of hand made food.
@msiagirl.bsky.social
Poet, book & art lover, photographer, aromatherapist, traveller. (She/her) UK Bathonian Malaysian. I like books. I like trees. I like deserts. I'm on IG/Threads. Flarestack Poet Pey Oh. MPhil USW. Photographer. Aromatherapist. I make potions.
@glynedwards.bsky.social
In Orbit - Seren Books PhD researcher - ecopoetry - Bangor Uni Writer in Res - North Wales Wildlife Trust
@jonathantotman.bsky.social
Poet and Clinical Psychologist. Collections "Night Shift" and "The Sessions" both published by Pindrop Press. Blogs on poetry, therapy and mental health: https://www.jonathantotman.co.uk/
@tiffanya.bsky.social
Poet/critic/prof/plodder/etc latest collection Lumen (Bloodaxe 2021)
@mermanpoet.bsky.social
British queer non-binary poet DYCP recipient Mother Night @ The Emma Press he/they www.linktr.ee/mermanpoet
@karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social
Poet. Novelist. Essays. Nature geek & speaker addict. Author Top Doll 2024. TS Eliot Prize Shortlist. Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar UCLA. FRSL. Teaches at Goldsmiths. Faber Academy. 🎶🐿️ 🪐
@greeningpoet.bsky.social
British poet (The Interpretation of Owls: Poems 1977-2022 ed. Gardner, Baylor UP). Also editor of anthologies & editions of Blunden, Grigson, Crichton Smith, a new selected UA Fanthorpe & a forthcoming Matthew Arnold. Not forgetting a Rilke 'New Poems'
@daigeorge.bsky.social
Poet, academic, other writings. Young and easy under the apple boughs. How to Think Like a Poet (Bloomsbury Continuum), out now
@andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social
Dishevelled wandering star. Director of Campaigns @thehowardleague.bsky.social Co-florist @badlilies.bsky.social andrewneilson.uk
@ruthpadel.bsky.social
Poetry * wildlife * music * India * Greece * New 📗 GIRL - ‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore) ‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian) 'Crafted for deep engagement: girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai) Www.ruthpadel.com
@martinfigura.bsky.social
Photographer, Writer and performer living in Norwich with Helen Ivory and sciatica.
@hananelizabethissa.bsky.social
National Poet of Wales @litwales 💚 ENQUIRIES: hanan-issa@outlook.com✨I don’t read work-related DM’s✨ All views my own. Rep’d by Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency
@bernardineevaristo.bsky.social
10 books inc. Girl, Woman, Other (Booker Prize 2019), Mr Loverman (2013) a BBC1 TV series in 2024 & Manifesto (2021). Professor of Creative Writing, Brunel University of London (Profile portrait by Valerie Asiimwe Amani)
@elcurwen.bsky.social
Poet, broadcaster, journalist, ex-BBC presenter, sailor, sea-swimmer.
@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
@sophieherx.bsky.social
Artist, Poet, Londoner, Mother, Teacher, Draw-er of Stories, Maker of Books, Ink Enthusiast, Collagist, co-anthologist with Bill Herbert @ghostfurniturecatalogue, submit? www.sophieherxheimer.com www.poetryteapot.wordpress.com (More settled on instagram)
@lenaozge.bsky.social
Poet with more than a hundred poems published worldwide. Nominated twice & shortlisted four times for international #poetry prizes. #catapoetics
@tazrahman.bsky.social
Jerwood Poetry Prize 2024 shortlisted, Laurel Prize 2024 longlisted poetry collection 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' published by Seren Books: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/east-of-the-sun-west-of-the-moon/
@aoifelyall.bsky.social
Poet, editor, mentor, teacher. The Day Before (Bloodaxe Books) out 22nd February 2024
@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.
@thechronotope.bsky.social
Poet/a (Poetry Society 2023, Bloodaxe Books 2024)|Ledbury Poetry Critic| Literary Translator| Rep: Elianna Kan at Regal Hoffmann| Clarendon DPhil scholar in 🇨🇴 lit. University of Oxford
@helenmort.bsky.social
Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
@katewakeling.bsky.social
Poet & Musicologist • The Rainbow Faults (The Rialto) • poetry collections for children (The Emma Press & Otter-Barry Books) • writer-in-residence – Aurora Orchestra
@rachaelboast.bsky.social
Disability advocate, editor and author. Recent publications: Hotel Raphael (Picador, 2021) and TIMESLIPS (Clutag Press, 2024)
@kathryngray.bsky.social
Poet. Film fanatic. Editor @badlilies.bsky.social. Hollywood or Home, a Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year, out now: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/hollywood-or-home/ and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hollywood-Home-Kathryn-Gray/dp/1781727120
@katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
Poet & performer. Battery Rocks (Seren 2024). Winner of Keats-Shelley Prize, Arthur Welton Award & Saboteur Award. Outdoor swimmer & walker. Loves dance & art. Vegan. PhD - Goldsmiths. Also on insta. www.katrinanaomi.co.uk
@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
@paulmcgrane.bsky.social
81% Welsh, 18% Irish, 100% poetry. Co-founder of ForestPoets.bsky.social, Walthamstow, and host of PoemsNotBombs.bsky.social open mic, Walthamstow & Soho. Big fan of #thefall & #LOFC https://indigodreamspublishing.com/paul-mcgrane
@mcrucefix.bsky.social
Poet, blogger on poetry, translator. See my website https://martyncrucefix.com/ + Editor of Young Poets Page Acumen Poetry magazine https://acumen-poetry.co.uk/young-poets/
@rosebudbenoni.bsky.social
🛸| Winner of the Alice James Award, IF THIS IS THE AGE WE END DISCOVERY (2021) | 20 Atomic Sonnets (2020) | turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (2019) | @TSP_Writing
@jlmmorton.bsky.social
Poet / Writer She / Her / Dr #PoetryReview #Rialto #PBLJ #Magma etc| Winner Geoffrey Dearmer & Laurie Lee Prizes | Highly Commended @forwardprizes | RED HANDED @brokensleepbooks 2024 | LAKE 32 Yew Tree Press 2020 | Chaotic good 💫 |www.jlmmorton.com
@jennifermilitello.bsky.social
poet & memoirist 🌎🌻✨📚 Poet Laureate of New Hampshire author of THE PACT (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books) and KNOCK WOOD (Dzanc Books) https://jennifermilitello.com/
@jo-shap.bsky.social
@johnglenday.bsky.social
Writer. Poetry. https://www.johnglenday.com https://www.northseapoets.com
@katiescribbles.bsky.social
❄️ THE EDGE OF SOLITUDE ❄️ / WHITE GHOSTS (2023) / MY NAME IS MONSTER (2019) / Northern Writers' Award 21 & 22 / Aesthetica Prize 23
@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)
@hollyhopkins.bsky.social
The English Summer (Penned in the Margins) a Guardian poetry book of the year. Shortlisted: Forward Prize for Best First Collection, Seamus Heaney Prize, Laurel Prize; Poetry Book Society Special Commendation https://hollyhopkins.co.uk
@eatthestorms.com
Home to The Storms journal, Eat the Storms poetry podcast and host, producer, editor-in-chief & writer Damien B Donnelly
@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
@steveeely.bsky.social
@marrrtha.bsky.social
Editor, writer and translator. The Poems of St John of the Cross forthcoming (Penguin Classics, 2026) marthasprackland.co.uk
@abrackenbury.bsky.social
Poet & broadcaster. 10th collection 'Thorpeness', Carcanet, 2022. Currently finishing non-fiction prose book 'Village,including 'witches', wheelbarrows and a pioneering woman archaeologist with a houseful of treasures in Long Lane...
@jmatkin.bsky.social
British, mostly Scottish, poet in education + community projects / The Poetry Wire online courses / 3rd collection HIGH NOWHERE from IDP / out walking / plagued by the cat / www.jeanatkin.com
@matthewepaul.bsky.social
The Last Corinthians (Crooked Spire Press, https://crookedspirepress.com/the-last-corinthians-by-matthew-paul), The Evening Entertainment (Eyewear), The Regulars, The Lammas Lands, Wing Beats (Snapshot Press) / reviews / essays / www.matthewpaulpoetry.blog
@andotheritems.bsky.social
Writer. Mostly poetry but also plays & prose & I dabble with VisPo. Liberation theology inclined Catholic. Wife & Mum. she/her Website/Blog https://josephinecorcoran.org/ Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/andothernotes?r=36enk&utm_medium=ios
@mfrancispoet.bsky.social
Poet, novelist and professor emeritus in creative writing at Aberystwyth University. Latest novel, Nocturne with Gaslamps out now from Neem Tree Press.
@eleanorhooker.bsky.social
Poet & Writer | PhD Candidate, UL | RNLI Helm & Lifeboat Press Officer | Fellow of Linnean Society | Michael Hartnett Award | Markievicz Award | 3rd collection Of Ochre and Ash (DedalusPress) | Where Memory Lies(Bonnefant Press) www.eleanorhooker.com
@kimmoorepoet.bsky.social
Poet and non-fiction writer. Latest poetry collection "All The Men I Never Married" won the 2022 Forward Prize. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ea3sI
@richardnskinner.bsky.social
Writer working across fiction, life writing, essays, non-fiction & poetry. Director @FaberAcademy • Founder #VanguardEditions • Editor #14magazine. Most recent publication: ‘White Noise Machine’ (Salt, 2023).
@suefinch.bsky.social
Poet. Coach. #ElasticBandPhotos. Loves coasts, peculiar things and the scent of ice-cream freezers. ‘Magnifying Glass’ and ‘Welcome to the Museum of a Life’ published by Black Eyes Publishing UK. https://suefinch.co.uk/
@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).
@edepaor.bsky.social
She/Her. Dublin. O.T. PhD Student: School to Adult Life Transition:views of young adults with intellectual disabilities & families. Interests:Health/Social Care, Social Justice, Universal Design, Choir, Gaeilge...but mainly Poetry https://linktr.ee/edepaor
@holliemcnish.bsky.social
Follow for poetry, random thoughts and new discoveries because poetry and the world is endlessly fascinating and I know nothing. On tour now: www.holliepoetry.com/livedates
@cbeditions.bsky.social
Writer and publisher (CB editions, 2007 to now: www.cbeditions.com)
@pdevonald.bsky.social
Multi award-winning poet/screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Second Shelley Memorial 2024 | Winner FofHCS, HoH, BoN nomx2, Forward Prize nom | Winner HoH, Waltham Forest | Children's Bafta nom
@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/
@jobellwriter.bsky.social
Poet, digital salonniere. Host of The Poetic Licence (Patreon) - monthly prompts, famous poet interviews, a creative community. Memoir, BOATER out with HarperNorth in summer '25. https://linktr.ee/BoaterJoBell
@clareshawpoet.bsky.social
Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent.