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Biographies
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Here you can find out more about the huge range of poets we feature in our pamphlets and the artists whose work appears on our beautiful covers.
We’ve now published poems by almost 800 historical and contemporary poets. In our pages you’ll find old favourites alongside twenty-first century voices – everyone from WH Auden to Benjamin Zephaniah. Although our emphasis is on British poetry, you’ll also find Irish, American and Australian writers.
We hope these pages will encourage you to explore further the work of a poet you’ve enjoyed in one of our pamphlets.
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David Wilson
David Wilson is a British poet and novelist living in North Yorkshire. He has climbed extensively in the UK, in the Alps and further afield. His debut poetry pamphlet Slope was published by SmithDoorstop in 2016 and The Equilibrium Line appeared in 2019.
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Marjorie Wilson
Marjorie Wilson (1885 – 1934) was a British poet who served as a nurse during the First World War. She was the daughter of a Derbyshire vicar and often wrote under the pen name ‘Town Girl’ in the Children’s Newspaper to which she sent many of her poems and sketches. One of her best-known poems is ‘The Lighthouse’ which finds comfort and hope in the “straight strong arm of light”.
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Beth Winegarner
Beth Winegarner is a poet, essayist and pop culture critic who has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian and The Washington Post. Most of her poems appear on her ‘Bite-Sized’ Poem a Week blog.
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James Womack
James Womack is a writer and translator. He studied Russian, English and translation at university. His first poetry collection Misprint was published by Carcanet in 2012 and his collection On Trust: A Book of Lies in 2017. He teaches Spanish Literature and Translation at Cambridge University and has translated several books from Spanish and Russian.
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Jennifer Wong
Jennifer Wong is a UK-based poet and translator who was born in Hong Kong. Her most recent poetry collection 回家 Letters Home was published by Nine Arches Press in 2020. Her work has also appeared in journals including The Rialto, Oxford Poetry and Asian Cha as well as various anthologies.
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John Woodall
John Woodall’s poetry pamphlet This is Just to Say was published by Offa’s Press in 2018. In 2022, he was the Wolverhampton Literature Festival Poetry Slam Champion.
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