Poets

The poets featured in our pamphlets are a mixture of contemporary and historic, well known and hardly known. Whilst our emphasis has tended to be on British poetry, our poets include Irish, American and Australian writers. We list them all below.

  • Bartlett, Elizabeth

    Bartlett, Elizabeth

    Elizabeth Bartlett (1924-2008) wrote eight poetry collections, including the acclaimed retrospective Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Two Women Dancing: New & Selected Poems (1995). She worked for a long time in the health service, as a doctor’s receptionist, and for the Home Care Service, an environment which provided her with material for some of her most moving poems.

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  • Bellerby, Frances

    Bellerby, Frances

     

    Frances Bellerby (1899 – 1975) was born in Bristol. She worked as a teacher and journalist, and in 1932 published a novel, Shadowy Bricks.   She settled in Cornwall and later in Devon, producing poetry, short stories, and another novel.

  • Bensley, Connie

    Bensley, Connie

    Connie Bensley (b1929) lives in London, where she worked before retirement as a secretary and medical copywriter. She writes plays, and is also known for her sharply humorous poems, collections of which include The Back and the Front Of It (2000) and Private Pleasures (2007).

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  • Betjeman, John

    Betjeman, John

    John Betjeman (1906-1984) was a popular poet, writer and broadcaster, and passionate defender of Victorian architecture. His Collected Poems was published in 1958 and his verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells, in 1960. He was knighted in 1969, and became Poet Laureate in 1972.

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  • Bidgood, Ruth

    Bidgood, Ruth

    Ruth Bidgood was born in 1922 and has been publishing poetry for over fifty years. She served in the Woman’s Royal Naval Service during the Second World War, as a coder in Egypt. A distinguished poet, in 2011 she won the Roland Mathias Prize for her collection Time Being, published by Seren Books.

  • Bishop, Elizabeth

    Bishop, Elizabeth

    Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) is considered by many as one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. She was deeply influenced by the poet Marianne Moore, and formed a lifelong friendship with poet Robert Lowell. She also worked as a painter, travelled widely, and was the recipient of several major literary awards.

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