Places of Poetry
@placesofpoetry
A 2019 England & Wales community arts project: 7000+ original poems of place, heritage & identity pinned to our digital map at placesofpoetry.org.uk
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Jack Malvern
@jackmalvern
Writer, formerly for The Times. I don't write the headlines.
The Poetry Society
@poetrysociety
A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview. Also @youngpoetsnet, @poetryeducation & @poetrycafeldn
Jacqui Rowe
@jacquirowe
Poet, publisher, producer, workshop leader, mentor. Specialises in heritage and poetry and dementia. Writer in Residence at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Ed Dorrell
@ed_dorrell
Partner at Public First (education, levelling up and Labour). Quant, qual, political comms. Ex-journo. Still write a lot.
ALISON BRACKENBURY
@abrackenbury
Poet/broadcaster. 'Thorpeness', 10th poetry collection. Engrossed in writing 'Village', nonfiction prose book of remarkable Lincolnshire people & their place...
Sue Finch (she/her)
@soopoftheday
Poet. Coach. Loves coasts, peculiar things and the scent of ice-cream freezers. ‘Magnifying Glass’ ‘Welcome to the Museum of a Life’
Nine Arches Press
@ninearchespress
Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
Tom Ough
@tomough
Senior editor at UnHerd; author of forthcoming book on averting doom; yeoman podcaster (Anglofuturism)
Hilary Robinson FRSA
@hilsrobinson
Ind. Radio Producer (BBC) Author. Patron of Reading @extoltrust. Books inc The Copper Tree helping bereaved children. instagram.com/hilaryrobinson…
Andrew Ray
@some_landscapes
Day job on climate change policy; writing about landscape and the arts in the occasional spare moment... Book on cliffs and culture: ‘Frozen Air’.
Ellen Wiles
@ellenwiles
Writer etc – new novel THE UNEXPECTED (HarperCollins, 2024) shorturl.at/xywSZ I've left here – come find me on instagram & bluesky @ellenwiles 👋
PoetryBookSoc
@poetrybooksoc
A unique poetry book club founded by TS Eliot. Join today for a year of poetry parcels and 25% off all books (Alice tweets)
Alis Jones
@ali_sutherland
Pamphlets Heartwood and Omega with Indigo Dreams Press. Also mindly.social/@AlisJay
🐾 ᒪIᘔ ᗷᖇOᗯᑎᒪEE
@lizpoet
Apes to Zebras; Being Me; Shaping the World; Poems & Shape poems. NPD Ambassador, Assistance Dog Owner. Also now at: @lizpoet.bsky.social
Corinne Fowler
@corinne_fowler
Prof. Corinne Fowler @UniofLeicester dir. of @Colonialcountr1 #colonialcountryside project. Rep'd @agent_bal @MMLitAgency nationaltrust.org.uk/features/c
Sam Smith
@originalplus
One time editor of The Journal (poetry & reviews). Have also worked as editor for several other publishers. A few poetry collections and novels bear my name.
BBC Countryfile
@bbccountryfile
This account is due to be deleted from the 9th December 2024 and is no longer active.
Shirin
@shirintsh
'You are the soul of the soul of the universe and your name is Love'. Rumi
𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟
@markantonyowen
𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁: @Subruria. 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iambapoet / @after_poetry. 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Online open mics. I was here when it was Twitter. And it was better.
Young Poets Network
@youngpoetsnet
@PoetrySociety's online platform for young people aged 5-25 worldwide. Challenges, features, writing opportunities and more!
Bex Hainsworth
@poetbex
Teacher and poet. Words in @RialtoPoetry @McNeeseReview @Atrium_Poetry @BathMagg @NimrodJournal Debut pamphlet WALRUSSEY now available from @theblackcatpp!
Tony Walsh
@longfellapoet
Poet | Writer | Educator | D. Litt (Hon) | FRSA. Stage, page, commissions, events, schools, universities, companies, charities, campaigns, projects. Let's talk.
Alison Hill
@rhythmandmuse
Poetry - Slate Rising, Fifty Ways to Fly & Sisters in Spitfires / Biography @TheHistoryPress #ATA - Pauline Gower, Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women
Alexander Verbeek 🌍
@alex_verbeek
Climate action | Nature | Water-Energy-Food | Sustainability | Wildlife | Innovation | Writing | Life | Subscribe to theplanet.substack.com 🌱
OxfordSpiresAcademy
@oxfordspiresac
Oxford Spires Academy is a highly aspiring Academy which offers an excellent, inspiring education to boys and girls aged 11 to 19. #InspiringStudents
Sarah Doyle
@poetsarahdoyle
Poet-in-Residence @PreRaphSoc. Widely placed/published. Pamphlets @vpresspoetry: Something so wild and new in this feeling (2021); (m)othersongs (2023).
Claire Collison
@clairecollison1
Writer, Artist, Educator Write From Art Debut pamphlet, Placebo (Blueprint) 2022 DYCP, 2022 The Big Draw Festival Prize, 2019 Women Poets' Prize, 2018
Anita Singh
@anitathetweeter
Daily Telegraph arts and entertainment editor. TV critic. Bradfordian
Julia Webb
@julwe1
Editor @LighthouseJrnl blog: visual-poetics.blogspot.co.uk Latest book: The Telling she/her #Poetry #Mentor #Neurodivergent
Katie Griffiths
@kmngriffiths
Winner of the Gregory O'Donoghue Prize. Author of The Attitudes, and Primers Vol 1 @NineArchesPress. My Shrink is Pregnant @LiveCanon.
Ian Duhig FRSL
@ianduhig
'New & Selected Poems', a TLS Book of the Year, won 2022 Hawthornden Prize for Literature. 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice.
Alex Christofi
@alex_christofi
Editorial Director: @TransworldBooks (part of @PenguinUKBooks). Author: CYPRIA @BloomsburyBooks My words are my own. alexchristofi.com
Simon
@sprayerpaint
David Cooper
@drdavidcooper
Place writing/poetry/literary geography. Teaches @MMUEnglishDept @McrWritingSchl Co-Director @PlaceCentre Trustee @ThePortico Tweets personal views etc.
Tim Hannigan
@tim_hannigan
Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, Indonesia; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo
Becky Bishop
@beckypoemsbooks
Unpaid Carer, Poet and Author.
Kerry Darbishire
@kerrydarbishire
Eng/Irish songwriter/poet. Publications: A Lift of Wings. Distance Sweet on my Tongue. Kay's Ark. Glory Days. A Window of Passing Light. Jardiniere. River Talk.
Tim Cresswell🏳️⚧️
@cresswelltim
Geographer, poet. Tweets on place, mobility, music, poetry, politics, art. Co-author Muybridge and Mobility (University of California Press).
Paul Brookes
@pauldragonwolf1
Shop Asst. Writer. Editor: The Wombwell Rainbow, The Starbeck Orion. Latest book: The Dude Work, ko-fi.com/paulthewombwel…
Chris Hayday
@chrishayday
MA #Dementia Studies graduate @ShefSNM Naturally curious, Visually inspired, Occupational Therapist, Allotmenteer, Volunteer and Cyclist.
Maggie Sawkins
@sawkinsmaggie
Poet and Creative Writing Tutor. Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry (for Zones of Avoidance). My favourite artist is Caspar David Friedrich.
Ian Irvine (Hobson) Solo
@irvinehobson
Writer: fiction, songs, poetry, nonfiction. Author:: #CityofQuartzNovel Muso 🎼 with @InterstitiumAu "Ian Irvine Solo" & @GoyasChild (1) Views my own!
Graham Palmer ✎
@gp_writer
A writer, attempting to make sense. (All you have to do is cross out the wrong words - Mark Twain) Tired of this place? Find me at: grahampalmer.bsky.social
Nicola Chester
@nicolawriting
Nature. Writer. Reader. Guardian Country Diary. BBC Countryfile, RSPB. Award Winning author, On Gallows Down & Climate Fic Judge. Over on the other place now x
Jane Clarke
@jane_janeclarke
Poet: 'The River', 'When The Tree Falls', 'A Change in the Air' (Bloodaxe 2015, 2019 & 2023) & ed. 'Windfall: Irish Nature Poems' (Hachette 2023)
The Devon and Exeter Institution
@dexinstitution
Thriving Independent Historic Library and Educational Charity, welcoming new members of all ages. Find out more at: linktr.ee/DExInstitution
Isabel Galleymore
@igalleymore
Poet + Harvard Radcliffe Fellow 22-23. *Baby Schema* @Carcanet bit.ly/3RsMV2I Associate Prof. @unibirmingham. Collab: @cutestudies
St Nicholas Priory
@nixpriory
Exeter’s oldest building: where heritage, culture and creativity meet. Thank you for following my posts for the last 6 years - find me now on @lightbearlane
People’s Poetry Podcast
@people_poetry
Travelling poetry & spoken word podcast hosted by @jbopenspoems 🎙️ Submit poetry to: [email protected]
Anthropocene
@anthro_poetry
fresh poems: wednesday & sunday. editor: @charliebaylis6 deputy editors: @XBagginses 🌎@NathanielKing55 🌍@NaoiseGale13
Geert Vermeire, Geo-Storytelling & Walking art
@vermeire_geert
Curator, artist and poet with a focus on walking art, spatial writing, locative sound & performance, social practices in an ecological framework
@redriverpoetry
@redriverpoetry
An Arts and Humanities Research Council poetry project about the Red River in West Cornwall led by poet Dr John Wedgwood Clarke from the University of Exeter
Bill Swainson💙
@swainsonbill
Consultant Editor @maclehosepress. Freelance Editor & Literary Consultant. Trustee @litfest & @CulturalPhilFdn. Views my own.
Exeter City of Literature
@exetercityoflit
A UNESCO designated City of Literature since 2019. We champion stories and storytellers locally and globally. Instagram: @exetercityoflit
[email protected]
@camberwellpoet1
Looking to organise a poetry trail around Camberwell! Would love to connect with businesses who can display poems in windows for 2 weeks this September.
In All Our Footsteps
@allfootsteps
In All Our Footsteps: Tracking, Mapping & Experiencing Rights of Way in Post-War Britain is an AHRC project led by @gsoh31. Tweets by @DrAFlint & @dr_hick
PenandPlough
@penandplough
A forum for discussion of the representation of farming in literature, hosted by Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Dr Pippa Marland at the University of Bristol.
Placing Poems
@placingpoems
Co-creators @ceren_do | @Roneill2 Supported by @poetryireland Bright Ideas Grant for @PoetryDay_IRL 2021
Pippa Marland
@pippamarland
Lecturer in Humanities (Liberal Arts, English, Literature and the Environment) at the University of Bristol. Controlled by two cats and a labrador.
Mary Devlin Powell
@devlin_powell
MA Poetry Writing, Newcastle University/Poetry School, london.
Coastlands School
@coastlandsnews
Coastlands School is a small, rural primary school in the coastal village of St. Ishmaels, Pembrokeshire.
The Writing Web ✍🏾
@thewritingweb
Writer-teacher supporting writing communities and providing bespoke CPD in schools. 🧡 @thewritingweb.bsky.social #WritingRocks
Robert Macfarlane
@robgmacfarlane
Books: Is A River Alive? (1 May 2025) | Underland | The Lost Words | The Old Ways etc … | Films: River, Mountain | Nature, climate, people | Prof @Cambridge_uni
Rachel Cleverly
@rachel_cleverly
💫 Project Manager @Literacy_Trust @AudibleUK 💫 Assistant Director @OldVicTheatre Makers 💫 @BarbicanCentre Young Poet @BYPoets 💫 (she/her)
Caroline Bird
@carolinebirduk
Poet & playwright. 7th poetry collection, Ambush at Still Lake, out from Carcanet: shorturl.at/JXYCR. Winner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020
Colonial Countryside
@colonialcountr1
Child-led history and writing project @nationaltrust funded by @ace_national & @hlf led by Prof @corinne_fowler @uniofleicester