poetry, piety, politics, program (odaat) | RB 4.74
Dishevelled wandering star. Director of Campaigns @thehowardleague.bsky.social Co-florist @badlilies.bsky.social andrewneilson.uk
Brummie Poet 📚🌈
26 / Edinburgh (mostly)
NOON out now with the Emma Press
https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/pamphlets/noon/
Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx3 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
What is Broken Binds Us
new poetry
University of Calgary Press, Sept 2025
https://linktr.ee/lornedaniel
Cultural audience researcher.
Interested in everything, including poetry.
Director of Evidence & Insight at The Audience Agency; Board member at Grimm & Co and Sheaf Poetry. From Reading, living in Sheffield.
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The best industry advice for writers & artists!
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards"- Soren Kierkagaard
Dumfries and Galloway / Isle of Lewis 🏴
EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Poet - Scottish poetry library bursary ward 2025 chapbooks include carbon, mind mathematics, wild chamomile and soon to be released becoming a witch she/her
Poet & Writer
Poetry Ireland Review • Banshee • The Waxed Lemon • Sonder • The Cormorant • Profiles • The Ogham Stone • Arts Council Literature Bursary • MA in creative writing from UL
colmgbrennan.com
Onemorething on ABCtales, Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
Poet & Writer | PhD non-naturalistic narratives of trauma | RNLI Lifeboat Press Officer | Fellow of Linnean Society | Michael Hartnett & Markievicz Awards | Of Ochre and Ash (DedalusPress) | Where Memory Lies(Bonnefant Press) www.eleanorhooker.com
Poet, author, artist, baker, photographer. Keen gardner & veg grower, advocate for nature and the underdog. All year open water swimmer, thalassophile, indie book publisher. Social & environmental justice now! Not a naturist!
https://linktr.ee/Debhandmade
Poetry, Micro-poems, Nature, Walking, Reading. East Coast Canada. No DMs. Banner Photo by me.
The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets celebrate work published in the UK. The 2025/26 Awards are opening for submissions soon.
Our partners are @britishlibrary.bsky.social, Wordsworth Trust, @thetls.bsky.social and The British School at Athens.
Winner of National Poetry Competition 2024. Debut collection Rope of Sand Pindrop Press (2023). Pamphlets Vital Capacity (Broken Sleep, 2022) and A Dovetail of Breath (Rack Press, 2020). Corrupted Poetry projects.
https://fionalarkinpoetry.wordpress.com
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/
Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs
Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
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
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.
Mainly poetry (Butcher's Dog,The Madrigal, Broken Spine, BlackBough, W Moon & counting), art, glass & (theatre) people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK. Not every act of kindness is part of a plan.
Website :www.sarahowriter.com
Black lab dad. Writer and ambient musician. The Dynasty of the Divine out now!
www.adamrowan.info
Read my book (free in Kindle Unlimited): https://www.amazon.com/Dynasty-Divine-Adam-Rowan-ebook/dp/B0FS3G3WWH/ref
Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Poems forthcoming in: London Review of Books, Free Bloody Birds & The London Magazine.
Poems appearing in: Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, New Republic, Poetry Review & Poetry London.
https://linktr.ee/tarnmacarthur
Writer/Songwriter/Artist and Gooner. ECO POET before such things existed.
FRSA. Artist. Senior research lead @CODATA-ISC, Paris. PhD @OIIOxford & @TheRuskin; visual art, archives, open research data, digital preservation & curation. Opinions mine. 🏴🇪🇺 Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@LM_HATII
Artist and nature lover - celebrating the wildlife and wild landscapes of northern England. Also keen on rocks and fossils. Art and photos are my own unless stated otherwise. Occasionally I write poetry - apologies in advance.
Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
poetry & science, writer, researcher. she/her/ they is fine, too.
https://mirandalynnbarnes.wordpress.com/
For OA & digipres, follow: https://bsky.app/profile/mirandab-oa.bsky.social
poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder Denver Colorado
Christus Super Omnia +
Writer, poet, “refreshingly honest” critic, tutor. Poems: Way More Than Luck (2018), Same Difference (Seren Books 2022). Criticism: Don Paterson (LUP 2021). Writing has appeared in Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, TLS, etc. Lifelong Red. Likes a jog.
Writer & musician. 19th novel The Transcendent Tide out now. Tombstoning, The Ossians and Ghost Notes all published in 2026. Album Crow Hill out now. Drummer for Fun Lovin' Crime Writers. www.dougjohnstone.com
Careful reader, thoughtful writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler. Distracted by birds. 🐦⬛
theunhurriedreader.substack.com
@the_unhurried_reader on Instagram (yes, I know that's confusing).
#InvisibleIllnessVisibleLives
#Nordlichtberaubt
groups 🔄 activist research ✍ #welcometheboats ⛵ #antiracistpractice ✊ #traumanotpd ❌ Gaia theory 🌍 psychosocial studies 📚 practices of equality 🤝 open mic poetry 🎤 Bob Dylan 🎸 Brixton 🧡 https://barrelblog.org https://open.substack.com/pub/johnadlampoems
Independent Writer
Spoken-Word Artist
EiC @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Workshop Facilitator
Podcast & Events Host
Lecturer in SEND #PromoteIndieLit
https://shorturl.at/gxRbM
Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
#PromoteIndieLit
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.
Posts: @carolinamata.bsky.social, AJ Jolish & @emotes206.bsky.social
https://splitlipthemag.com/
Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com
Poet and translator in a bad time for Lyrik
Lover of lurchers and other thieving dogs
The Strongbox, Carcanet, 2024
Irish writer. Leonard and Hungry Paul, Panenka, Ghost Mountain.
www.ronanhession.com
Music as Mumblin' Deaf Ro https://mumblindeafro.bandcamp.com/
Tiny but mighty indie press specialising in poetry books and magazines. Hyena! by Fran Lock was shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN Heaney Prize. Grab a copy here https://thepoetrybuspress.onlineweb.shop/
est. March 2020 : editor/publisher rob mclennan https://bsky.app/profile/robmclennan.bsky.social
built as a curious extension of above/ground press (b. 1993
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/
member of Literary Magazines Canada Collective,
Notts-based ecopoet with some words in Magma, Structo, Popshot Quarterly, and Firewords. Co-owner of @flompstudio.bsky.social and creator of https://ecoetry.co.uk/
Essayist and poet. Autistic. Books, trees, clouds, sky.
Etsy shop: https://slowquietimages.etsy.com/
Newsletter: https://slowquiet.substack.com
https://maryhrovat.com
Curious what emerges when poetry, visual art, and scholarly writing are constellated with place-based responses.
Canadian Artist-Researcher based in Scotland.
Author | Reader
Burnt Offerings out now on Amazon (Alien Buddha Press).
Words all over, Virago Books, Quarter Press, MoonLit Getaway, Micromance Mag etc.
Winner Caledonia Novel Award 24, Bridport Prize shortlist 25, Pushcart Prize nominee 26.
Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/.
Editor - New Nottingham Journal
Literary editor - Leftlion Magazine
Words in Radio Times, Under the Radar, Nottingham Post
Writer-in-residence with Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature '24
Not-for-profit press led by readers, writers & translators. Consider subscribing to help us take publishing risks. http://andotherstories.org/subscriptions/
Poet & Comic Book Writer | GOLDEN RAGE from Image Comics ("Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls”) | BEAR & LOW from Bloodaxe Books | PERVERSE magazine editor | https://open.substack.com/pub/chrissywilliams
Hyperlocal aesthete, spiritual atheist, professional dilettante
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Oxford Poetry is the oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the UK, and one of the oldest in the world. Est. 1910.
https://linktr.ee/OxfordPoetry
Edinburgh-based journalist, arts-follower, traveller-around-Scotland. Any views expressed are mine alone. https://www.heraldscotland.com
Former Eng Lit academic. Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Fitzgerald, Robert Nye, but mainly Anthony Burgess, a fellow Mancunian.
robspence.org.uk shinynewbooks.co.uk
victorcrabbe on Insta
Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/rob611
My Hollywood & Other Poems (Paul Dry Books); translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends @nybooks.com, @thetls.bsky.social, etc.; teach at @utulsa.bsky.social; EiC @nimrodjournal.bsky.social
Author, historian, maker of books and radio - Midnight in Peking, City of Devils, Murders of Old China, Peking Noir, The Defectors, Her Lotus Year. Return to the City of Darkness - Kowloon Walled City on BBC R3 Feb 15. Agent - Aitken-Alexander
Poet: 'The River', 'When the Tree Falls', 'A Change in the Air' (Bloodaxe 2015, 2019 & 2023) https://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/
(he/him) Belfast/Coleraine poet. Black Eyed Peace, is available as free eBook from Wordpress, inc. the Pushcart nominated Hunting for the Aurora. MA student at MMU - davidatkinsonpoet.wordpress.com
Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
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.
Poetry and other bits of writing | Pit Lullabies with Bloodaxe Books and The Quick and Liffey Swim with Dedalus Press | Essays in Tolka, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review | Poetry editor at Banshee | New Arcana forthcoming Sept 25 from Bloodaxe Books.
John McGahern Literature Award | DLR Emerging Writer In Residence 2024 | Poetry Ireland Introductions | Cúirt New Writing Fiction Award | Art Council Literature Bursary Award |
sonyagildea dot com
lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) out now | latest book: Found in a Context of Destruction by Tim MacGabhann | https://bansheepress.org/
Writer. Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils | Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet, shortlisted: Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize & Saltire Nonfiction Prize 2025
Professor of Literature & the Environment, Uni of Edinburgh
Cheerleader for other poets' poems | Founder of Conscious Writers Collective | www.consciouswriterscollective.com
Communications Director, @canongate.co.uk. Currently working with Miranda July, Omar El Akkad, Len Pennie, Damian Barr, Lily King, John Niven & many other talented folk.
Live in Edinburgh, though more often on trains. Don't have access to DMs.
Biannual journal, edited in Belfast, publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Publisher of The Irish Pages Press. Edited by Chris Agee and Kathleen Jamie.
Scottish-based literary agency representing literary fiction, non-fiction, crime fiction & writing for children.
An independent bookshop by the seaside in Portobello, Edinburgh. 🌊 Open 7 days, 10am - 6pm. 📚 Browse millions of books on our website. 👉 https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/links
Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
Poet & visual artist
Creative practice•word & image
DE House Poet Laureate•‘24 DDOA poetry Fellowship
Social justice advocate•Survivor(Plain-dressing community)•Autism-rooted family life
ND brain•Forest-rooted🌲
she/her 🌊🇺🇦
www.jempoetry.com
Poetry, Print & People 🌈
🦉 Northern Writers Award Winner
🐕 Managing Editor Butcher's Dog
🍎 Lecturer in Creative Writing
📚 Poetry Book Society Selector
📖 Outlandish (Bloodaxe)
Proper Working Class Northerner 💪
Gypsy, Roma, Traveller 🐴
Sometime dodo 🦤
Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Writer. Lover of poetry. Loves the world still.
An independent leftist magazine collecting criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and art • Support our work at www.patreon.com/proteanmag • www.proteanmag.com/
Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
National poetry magazine of Wales. Publishing contemporary poetry, features and reviews since 1965.
Account monitored Monday-Wednesday.
https://poetrywales.co.uk
Connecting Poetry and People. Funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon & the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. www.poetryireland.ie
Subscribe to The Scotsman for news, opinion and expert analysis from Scotland’s national newspaper: http://scotsman.com/subscriptions/
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
The best new poetry published in the UK & Ireland
The UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.
Prize-winning #Brum based poetry indie making high octane collections and vervey pamphlets. Related to
@Vervepoetryfest (did you guess?) 😍
https://vervepoetrybookshop.com/vpp
Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival 21-23 November 2025
Festival, open mic, workshops, podcasts, and more.
https://pushtheboatout.org/
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.
The Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education and a proud Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
🏝️ Book Summer Courses: https://poetryschool.com/new-courses/summer-2026-quick-course-guide/
A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social.
poetrysociety.org.uk
linktr.ee/poetrysociety22
An independent poetry publishing house based in rural Aberdeenshire | www.tapsalteerie.co.uk | join the Scottish poetry Discord: discord.gg/9bC6Gp2ZJM | & check out our imprint Stewed Rhubarb Press: https://stewedrhubarb.org/
Journal featuring poets yet to publish a full collection / Est. 2022 / EIC @aanaxagorou.bsky.social / Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social OUT NOW / Subs closed.
propelmagazine.co.uk
London’s Leading Poetry Magazine. Autumn 2023 Issue 106 OUT NOW.
https://poetrylondon.co.uk/