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Mostly reading. Managing Editor Books for Keeps, administrator Klaus Flugge Prize and Branford Boase Award plus other book-y stuff.
Creative Director I Am Loud Productions,
Spoken Word Artist, Wrestling Fan. Socialist.
Email: kevin@iamloud.co
He/Him
Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
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
2021 UK Poetry Slam Champion 🏆
Poet • Editor • Mentor • Event Organiser
House of O’Driscoll ✨✌️
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Hedgehog is a teeny one-man-band of a poetry press nobody knows about - shhh!
www.hedgehogpress.co.uk
Access All Areas poetry for, about, and from disabled people, hosted by @rosebonecrone.bsky.social and @fayroberts.bsky.social.
All our events are #BSL interpreted and wheelchair #accessible. Watch this space! #PoetryForAll
The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. Fighting for a fairer industry since 1884. #societyofauthors
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training https://linktr.ee/societyofauthors
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poet, unfortunately. Food for the Dead (Jonathan Cape). Lecturer @ University of Hull. NWCDTP-funded PhD on authotheory and anorexia @ Manchester Writing School. rep’d by Peter Straus @ RCW Literary Agency
One of the UK’s leading research institutions and a centre of world-class teaching and learning. Posting weekdays 9am – 5pm.
https://liverpool.ac.uk
https://linktr.ee/livuni
With over 2000 free poems, 500 poets’ work and 5 million visitors a year, the Poetry Archive represents a rich diversity of both poets and poetry.
South London-based publishing collective focused on experimental literatures at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, & neurodiversity. We also run online journal theHythe!
linktr.ee/the87press
https://www.the87press.co.uk/
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
Bringing the right health information to the right people at the right time
Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word ✨#Brum and online✨ Online Multi-press Poetry-only Bookshop @vervepoetryshop✨
https://vervepoetryfestival.com
Poems by day, prose by night. Préfère l'impair.
Children's poet / non-fiction writer / musician / visitor to 1400+ Primary schools. Ambassador for National Poetry Day. Illus by Neal Layton
A leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa.
Website: www.saqibooks.com
Linktree: https://shorturl.at/Yc9TY
Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137/dark-night-by-cross-st-john-of-the/9780241699294
marthasprackland.co.uk
Reaching readers on behalf of 50+ independent publishers. Funded by Arts Council England. Follow us on socials @inpressbooks📚 linktr.ee/inpressbooks
Salt | Est. 1999 | Independent & family-run.
Fiction (crime, historical, horror, literary), non-fiction, poetry & short stories.
Beautiful books you won’t forget. Available from all UK and Ireland bookshops.
www.saltpublishing.com
Manchester Literature Festival presents inspiring live literature, poetry & culture. Check out our Spring & Summer events at www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
Website: brokensleepbooks.com
The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
National schools poetry recitation competition, open to all schools and colleges in England, re-igniting a love of poetry. poetrybyheart.org.uk
A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social.
poetrysociety.org.uk
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Scotland's premier spoken word organisation, learn more about our work at iamloud.co
Loud Poets: Best Regular UK Spoken Word Night 2023
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