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Biographies

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 850 historical and contemporary poets. In our pages you’ll find old favourites alongside twenty-first century voices – everyone from WH Auden to Belinda Zhawi. 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.

  • Sumana Roy

    Sumana Roy is an Indian writer and poet who is an associate professor at Ashoka University. Her essays and poems have appeared in Granta, The Caravan, Los Angeles Review of Books and American Book Review. A collection of poems Out of Syllabus was published by Speaking Tiger Books in 2019.

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  • Gibbons Ruark

    Gibbons Ruark is a contemporary American poet based in North Carolina. He has published numerous collections, most recently The Road to Ballyvaughan (Jacar Press, 2015). He has won a Pushcart Prize and held three poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The New Republic and Poetry magazine.

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  • Mary Ruefle

    Mary Ruefle is an American poet and essayist. She has published many poetry collections the most recent of which is Dunce (Wave Books, 2019) which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She teaches at Vermont College and is the poet laureate of the state of Vermont.

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  • Reshma Ruia

    Reshma Ruia is a writer who has a PhD and Masters in Creative Writing and Critical Thought from Manchester University. She is the co-founder of The Whole Kahani, a collective of British South Asian writers, and a trustee of Manchester City of Literature. Her poems have been published in several anthologies and a collection A Dinner Party in the Home Counties was published by Skylark Publications in 2019.

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  • Carol Rumens

    Carol Rumens was born in South London and is a prolific writer of fiction, drama and translations. She has also published fourteen collections of poetry of which the most recent is De Chirico’s Threads (Seren 2010) and writes the highly popular ‘Poem of the Week’ feature for The Guardian.

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  • Declan Ryan

    Declan Ryan is an Irish poet and critic in living in London. His first collection Crisis Actor is forthcoming in the UK from Faber & Faber (July 2023) and is to be published in the US in 2024. His essays have been widely published in journals including The Guardian, The New York Review of Books and the TLS.

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