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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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Paul Catherall
Paul Catherall is an artist and printmaker based in London. He studied illustration at Leicester Polytechnic and initially worked as an illustrator before beginning printmaking in 1998. He created a number of linocuts marking how London’s architecture was changing around the Millennium. His work has been widely exhibited and he is one of Transport for London’s most prolific poster artists.
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Gaius Valerius Catullus
Little is known about the poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC). He was born to an aristocratic family and was considered to be one of the ‘new poets’ of the time, who rejected the epic and public themes traditionally written about by poets, and instead embraced personal experience as a subject.
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Charles Causley
Charles Causley (1917 – 2003) was a poet, teacher and writer from Launceston in Cornwall. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, as a coder. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1958 and was awarded a CBE in 1986. In June 2010, the first Charles Causley Festival took place in Launceston.
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CP Cavafy
Constantine P Cavafy was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1863. He worked for thirty years as a special clerk in the Ministry of Public Works while writing poetry and prose essays, living a secluded life and virtually unrecognised in Greece until late in his career. He preferred distributing his work in private pamphlets to his friends and relatives to sending his work for publication. He died in 1933, and is now considered one of the most highly-esteemed Greek poets of the twentieth century.
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Louise Chandler Moulton
Louise Chandler Moulton (1835 – 1908) was an American poet, critic and story-writer who published many books for children and wrote regular columns for the New York Tribune. She was first published (in a local newspaper) when she was only 15 and she went on to be highly prolific. Her poetry collection In the Garden of Dreams (1889) established her reputation and her literary salons were popular with many writers.
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Robert Chandler
Robert Chandler is a poet and award-winning translator of Russian literature. He is the editor of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (Penguin, 2005). He has translated works by Teffi for Pushkin Press, including her collection of short stories and her memoir Memories – From Moscow to the Black Sea. He has also published his own poems in the TLS and Poetry Review.
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