THE POETRY COMMUNITY
In here, alongside a few poetry magazines, as well as some important supporters of poetry, you will find POETS
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@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
@peterurpeth.bsky.social
Writer | poet | development editor | pianist | improviser | Journalist | peterurpeth.com | peterurpeth.bandcamp.com | poetry collection - The 4000 Nights of New York in 1988 peterurpeth.com/4000nights | Cockney living in the Outer Hebrides
@marionmccreadypoet.bsky.social
Writer / poetry - Tree Language, Madame Ecosse (Eyewear Publishing), Look to the Crocus (Shoestring Press, 2023)
@coastalpoet.bsky.social
Coastal poet, shorebird, Evie by the sea. Current thoughts: ‘We are each other's magnitude & bond.’ (Gwendolyn Brooks) | ‘Move intentionally & build things.' jenevievecarlyn.com
@hazardpressuk.bsky.social
Poetry & Book Arts | A VOICE COMING FROM THEN – Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2022 | IN RETAIL | JOY//US: Poems of Queer Joy (co-ed.) | https://t.ly/qUcAE | www.hazardpress.co.uk | he/him
@carolinejohnstone.bsky.social
Poet (Hedgehog Press) & author (dare to be happier). Poet in Residence at Dundonald Castle, & general Twitter magpie🧐Scotland and NI
@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
@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
@katewise.bsky.social
possible poet. Lucky enough to be published by @rialtopoetry.bsky.social @theemmapress.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @finishedpoetry etc
@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
@jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social
Julie Stevens, MS, poet. Journey Through the Fire (2024), Step into the Dark (2023), Balancing Act (2021) (Hedgehog Poetry Press) and Quicksand (Dreich, 2020) www.jumpingjulespoetry.com
@julianday.bsky.social
Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
@markantonyowen.com
𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁: @subruria.com. 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iambapoet.com / @afterpoetry.com. 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Occasional online open mics.
@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!
@northernjim.bsky.social
Poetry Editor of the Dirigible Balloon (submissions closed) https://dirigibleballoon.org https://northernjim.wordpress.com #Cumbria #Poetry
@jirobb.bsky.social
Writer, poet, socialist, feminist, mother. 2 poetry collections with Yaffle Press: The Doll’s Hospital; Hear The World Explode
@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
@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/
@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.
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky No time for pretence! Edited by @alanparry83.bsky.social www.thebrokenspine.co.uk https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
@amaleenadamle.bsky.social
Associate Prof in French, Durham University. Poet, in Acropolis, Atrium, After, Dust, Dreich, IceFloePress, Indigo Dreams, Ink, Sweat & Tears, others. Editor at Paragraph, EUP.
@arivanovich.bsky.social
Author of HAVEN, PAPERGLASS, MONARCH, and LASTLAND (The War of Princes series is undergoing a 3rd edition). ♠️✨🌿📚 YA Fantasy & Sci-fi. Artist. Poet. Gamer. Nature lover. Introvert with spasms of extroversion. Creative instigator. (Feat: 7 🐱 & Echo 🐶)
@abigailottley.bsky.social
Writes poetry and short fiction. Pushcart and Best of Net nominated. Plaza Prose Poem 2nd, 2024, Patricia Eschen Award 3rd, 2024. Twice winner of Wildfire 150. 2023 and 2024. Loves books, dogs & crafting.
@bigade1666.bsky.social
Shouty disabled person; former Worcestershire Poet Laureate, "Made of Stories" available from Black Pear Press. Have been mistaken for the shouty bloke off Masterchef in the past...
@adamneikirk.bsky.social
Poet, Scholar, Pantisocrat 2025 ECF BARS/Wordsworth Grasmere Comms for Charles & Mary Lamb Society & BARS (bars.bsky.social) Poetics & romanticism are my jam! Also into gaming, anime, MTG, UAP stuff, sustainability, immersion, post-capitalism
@alecfinlay.bsky.social
artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
@alisonmanning.bsky.social
Poet, poetry film maker, author of World Without Endless Sheep and occasional lemon grower.🍋 https://alisonmanningwriter.wordpress.com/
@ambulancebox.bsky.social
Poet. Author of “The Ambulance Box” and “The North End of the Possible”. New book coming in 2026. | Non-stipediary (i.e. unpaid) priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church and member of general synod | she/her 🏳️⚧️ https://linktr.ee/amyjophilp
@andywilliamson.com
Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | urbanbadgercollective.com http://andywilliamson.com
@angelaarnold777.bsky.social
Poet, artist & creative gardener. Collection In Between (our inner landscapes/relationships). Lefty, Quaker, environmental campaigner, worrier for our future.
@annadavidson.bsky.social
Writing, editing, publishing. My debut poetry collection is out now. https://linktr.ee/akdavidson
@poetbex.bsky.social
Teacher and Poet. WALRUSSEY, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, is now available from The Black Cat Poetry Press: https://www.blackcatpress.co.uk/product-page/walrussey
@khursheb.bsky.social
poet & geek #exactcolourofsnow #lastdaysofpetrol bridgetkhursheed.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
@carolsheppard.bsky.social
Poet, Playwright and lover of words. Leader of Severn Playwrights. Was poet in residence for the Gloucester Poetry Festival 2023.
@charlieulyatt.bsky.social
'Charlie Ulyatt is one of our most accomplished poets of the minimal' (Billy Mills, poet, editor, formerly literary journalist at http://guardian.co.uk) Books from https://charlieulyatt.bandcamp.com/ Sign up to receive email poems eepurl.com/b4DGj5
@clarestarling.bsky.social
Poetry and milky tea - ‘Magpie’s Nest’, won the Frosted Fire First Pamphlet Award 2023
@corinnaboard.bsky.social
EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her. https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
@dbodepudi.bsky.social
Poet. Novelist. Mum. Teacher. Comino Poet in Residence. PhD-ing at Man Met-the poetics of Language Loss and Identity. Interested in Postcolonial research from a British diasporic POV.
@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
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
Author of 8 books of fiction and poetry. Recent: The Thickness of Ice (novel, Baraka Books, 2024); The Death Poems (Salt, 2023). Shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Bord Gais Irish Book Awards, and Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
@ancpoet.bsky.social
7.9.19 | poet published in the london magazine, the notre dame review, door is a jar, etc. | nominated best microfiction | reader for black fox lit ✨ read here: https://www.anothernewcalligraphy.com/anc071.html https://amandanicolecorbin.com/
@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
@lizaachilles.bsky.social
🩷 Books to make you laugh, hope & ponder 📖 The blog for the discerning reader 🤩 Read my book of Shakespearean sonnets ➡️ Visit https://lizaachilles.com
@nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social
Poet: OXBLOOD (Able Muse Press), International Book Award Board Member at PoetryByTheSeaConference.org Associate Poetry Editor at AbleMuse.com (she/her) nicolecarusogarcia.com
@elcurwen.bsky.social
Poet, broadcaster, journalist, ex-BBC presenter, sailor, sea-swimmer.
@ninaparmenter.bsky.social
Poet, performer, wage slave, dog slave, mum. Lover-not-Fighter-in-Chief at Trowbridge Poetry Stanza. Collection ‘Split, Twist, Apocalypse’, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2022.
@helenlaycock.bsky.social
Pushcart-nominated poet, short story writer, and author of children's fiction. Winner of Black Bough Poetry Chapbook contest, shortlisted for Broken Spine Arts Chapbook contest. Book of the Month at The East Ridge Review. Widely published.
@ellenkrupich.bsky.social
Writer ✍ Short prose. Poetry. Haiku 📚 #vss365 #writingcommunity My posts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2wcalufrs3gx7wi4px22l2yd/feed/aaafkf472bdu2
@martinkennedyyates.bsky.social
Writer - Artist - Tutor I make things with words, paints & stuff. Winner of the Broken Spine Chapbook Comp 2024 - debut poetry pamphlet coming in 2025. Poems in Rialto, Stand, Poetry Wales, Magma, Butcher's Dog, The Winged Moon & others.
@marcellenewbold.bsky.social
Poet- place and inheritance, Cardiff Wales Bridport shortlist, Best of Net & Pushcart nom. Poems: Poetry Wales, Propel, IS&T, Iamb, Atrium, Fly on the Wall, Black Bough, Broken Spine, Ice Floe… Architect | Editor | Tutor https://linktr.ee/marcellenewbold
@monikerpoems.bsky.social
she/they, transgender, posting my poetry home of unfunny pun-guins *<* Aster & Risk *>* In my feeds you can find "my longer poems", a collection of the works I want people to read the most.
@haikutom.bsky.social
Art. Haiku/Poetry. Philosophy. Photography. Travel/Writing. Zen. No DMs please. Thanks. 🇬🇧/🏴 🇨🇦🇫🇷🇿🇲🇳🇿🇺🇸
@dergullen.bsky.social
SFF writer, poet, editor, leather crafter, gardener. Milford SF Conference co-organiser, 5K Your Way Ambassador 2024 Nonsuch Parkrunner of the Year Winning battles, losing the war.
@bethbpoet.bsky.social
Poet, Quaker, retired teacher, socialist, runner (just) , proud Omi . She/her
@monostich.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby
@oyoguhito.bsky.social
Poet and photographer my daily photoblog and poetry blogs: http://jimyoung14.blogspot.com http://baitthelines.blogspot.com https://haikueye.blogspot.com
@davgar51.bsky.social
Poet, birder, house husband, father, photographer; programmer, IT consultant, zoologist. London, Reading, Basel, Southampton, Carbondale, Morogoro.
@softlywild.bsky.social
Poet; writer; imagination is everything. 💫 Lover of shapes left over from cutting out shapes; the sea; humming and the rain.
@cclarklewes.bsky.social
Own Sweet Time, CB editions Sovetica, CB editions Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions https://minorliteratures.com/2025/01/09/the-complimiment-caroline-clark/ https://sublunaryeditions.com/magazine/nosta-and-senti-a-homecoming-essay-caroline-clark
@carmellapoetry.bsky.social
✨Hedgehog Poetry Pamphlet Winner✨ Honourable Mention Dark Poets Prize/BBC/Dream Catcher Mag/The Dirigible Balloon/Dark Poets Club/Suburban Witchcraft/OTB/Wishbone Words/Harlow Stanza Founder/Poetry Society Rep🏆Judge Harlow Open 2025🏆 🖤 90's 🫶🏻 Beatles
@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.
@rustybarnes23.bsky.social
poet | editor | HALF CRIME, story collection from Redneck Press | Recent Poems, late 2025 http://www.linktr.ee/rustybarnes23
@amgraue.bsky.social
Poet, editor, reviewer, prose writer, human Poetry Editor at The Westchester Review Author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet (Woodley Press) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press) annegraue.com
@vwalker-author.bsky.social
the fragile humans we are - out now! | Poet ✍🏻 indie author 📚 Romance lover ❤️🩹 https://linktr.ee/vwalkerauthor
@martinadalton.bsky.social
Poet | Poems in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, Irish Independent, Rattle, Magma. | Irish Book Awards Poem of the Year ‘22
@strandvogel.united-for-democracy.com
Poet, author, neurodivergent, progressive, humanist, Dutch lady fighting for democracy, goal: unite US #BlueCrew with #European #resistance #UnitedforDemocracy #Genoeg=Genoeg
@j-s-watts.bsky.social
Writer (poet, novelist, short story writer and sometime reviewer) amateur photographer and very amateur musician. Website: https://www.jswatts.co.uk/
@echoendlessmind.bsky.social
#IndieAuthor | #Poet | #Writer | #BookSky | #PoetrySky | #Feminist | 🐱🐶 Word Weaver | My words are my art. ✍️ Author: Storm of Enchanted Dreams & Wicked Dreams Goodnight Please comment publicly if you want to DM. https://linktr.ee/digitalmedleysllc
@rachaelclyne.bsky.social
UK poet and writer. Latest collection: 'You'll Never Be Anyone Else' - https://www.serenbooks.com/book/youll-never-be-anyone-else/ https://rachaelclyne.blogspot.com/ @rachaelclyne Substack #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryCommunity UK Poetry #poets #ukpoets
@susiecampbell.bsky.social
Makes poetry in multi-modes. Tenter (2020), Enclosures (2021), The Sleeping Place (2023), wastelands (forthcoming, Guillemot Press, 2025)
@kristinwrites.bsky.social
Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS Sufferer. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. Cofounder of #CripCoop. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @whirligiglit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
@annierose25.bsky.social
Poetry. Films. Photographs. Plays. Novels. Images my own unless a repost. Award-winning poet writing in English/Ulster-Scots. I chase words and the light. Available on tour, in books and on BBC Radio/TV. New work autumn 2025. Never too many cats.
@annachen.bsky.social
UK writer, historian, poet & broadcaster. Orwell Prize shortlisted. Ted speaker. BBC presenter & writer back when it was good. https://www.annachen.co.uk/home/about-anna-chen/
@plpoetry.bsky.social
Pushcart & BoTN nominated Poet 1st collection: "An Array of Vapour" with TSL Pubs: https://tslbooks.uk/product/an-array-of-vapour-peter-lilly/ 2nd: "A Handful of Prayers" with Wipf & Stock. https://wipfandstock.com/9798385204373/a-handful-of-prayers
@jesselkercheval.bsky.social
Poet, writer, translator (UY poetry), comics. Pitt Poetry Series, Fieldmouse Press, etc. Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series, UW Press. Emerita CW Prof, UW-Madison, Rep Gail Hochman. Graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, WaPo 10 Best Graphic Novel 2024
@maryanncorbett.bsky.social
Poet, author of six books; newest is *The O in the Air.* Wilbur Award, Barnstone Prize, Best American Poetry, lots of journals.
@danvera.com
Washington, DC —poet| poetry foundation bit.ly/40tituc , editor, literary historian, 📚: Speaking Wiri Wiri (Red Hen) & co-editor, Imaniman: Poets at the (Gloria) Anzaldúan Borderlands (Aunt Lute). Quilt & watercolor. danvera.com
@ffteague.bsky.social
Poet: From Pittville to Paradise (2022), Interruptus: A Poetry Year (2025)
@owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
Poet (unpublished), thinker, dreamer, scribbler… in ascending order @owlnsquirrels1111 on Threads
@llbbl.blog
Full-time Tech. Part-time Goblin. Aspiring Poet. ┌( ͝° ͜ʖ͡°)=ε 🐈 🎮 📚 ♥w♥ Thrends. Link In My Bio: https://logan.smmall.cloud/
@michelegrieve.bsky.social
Tree Woman & Poet Pushcart Prize Nominee 2025 Wellbeing writer Landscape 📸
@rodcrodriguezpoet.bsky.social
Award-winning poet/author of five books of poetry. I love art photography, spending time with my family, and fighting fascists with every breath I take.
@siodhna.bsky.social
#Dublin based #poet #nature lover. Writes on Substack under @theseainme. Here's my about page https://theseainme.substack.com/about I like to write about the things people don't talk about through the intimacy of #poetry
@milliethepoet.bsky.social
Poet/childless/dyspraxic/owned by cats.Sheffield, England. Debut pamphlet 'Imprint' out now from https://fawnpress.co.uk/ (as Kathryn Millington)
@themixedindigenous.bsky.social
| Poet | Storyteller | Photographer |🏳️🌈🇺🇾 🦋🔮✨🌱☀️📚✨♌️🎨 Ex-Tech Writer \ Intuitive Healer \ Non-Religious Ordained Minister 🩷🧡💜 Ya no por nada. Todo para ti. ✨♥️🇲🇽 #resist #BLM
@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
@evecastle.bsky.social
I write poems & short stories. Published. Retired to Colorado ‘24. TX escapee. #Resist I’m writing/submitting. Also on Medium now. Be kind, especially to yourself #SafeSpace Host #TankaThursday #TankaPoem prompt since Jun‘19 #poetry #haiku #tanka
@michaelbroussard.bsky.social
Playwright, poet, storyteller, and performing artist. Mental health activist. He/Him/They/Them. Neurospicy. Subscribe to my mailing list at michaelbroussardarts.beehiiv.com sexabusesurvivor.com
@po3try.bsky.social
poet made of mischief, shadow and rainbows ghost photo blog: t.ly/guAlZ
@greeninkpress.bsky.social
Independent Poetry Press | Celebrating Wild Weather, Deep Roots, And Green Hearts | http://linktr.ee/GreenInkPoetry | Submissions Open
@danielghinds.bsky.social
Poetry collection New Famous Phrases March 25 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social New Northern Poet | New Writing North North East Poet | BBC New Creative https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/daniel-hinds-new-famous-phrases
@alanparry83.bsky.social
Award Winning Writer Spoken-Word Artist EiC @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Workshop Facilitator Podcast & Events Host Lecturer in English https://shorturl.at/gxRbM
@fiftywords.bsky.social
Mainly posting poetry and thinking about the world. Feel free to comment
@scrivolosi.bsky.social
Queer poet & photographer. Lover of little neighbourhood libraries, independent bookshops & public radio. ©️photos and writings my own; reposts from awe, solidarity or inspiration. No DMs please 🙏🏼🏳️🌈 she/her.