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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.

  • James Stephens

    James Stephens (1880 – 1950) was born in Dublin. Alongside original poems he produced many retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. His first poetry collection Insurrections was published in 1909 and his last Kings and the Moon in 1938.  He spent the latter part of his life in London and gained popularity as a result of a series of broadcasts for the BBC.

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  • Rhona Stephens

    Rhona Stephens grew up in Northern Ireland and now lives in Scotland. Her pieces have appeared in The Honest Ulsterman, Bangor Literary Journal and a number of anthologies. Her poems for children can be found in The Toy, TygerTyger, Parakeet, PaperBound and Dirigible Balloon.

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  • Kenneth Steven

    Kenneth Steven is a writer and painter who has published 14 collections of poetry. He has written and presented several poetry programmes for BBC Radio including a feature on St Kilda which won a Sony Award in 2006. His most recent collection is A Song Among The Stones (Polygon, 2012). He lives in Argyll.

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  • Anne Stevenson

    Anne Stevenson is an Anglo-American poet. She grew up and studied in America, but has since lived in Britain. Her several volumes of poetry include Stone Milk (2007). She lives in Durham and was awarded the Northern Rock Foundation Writers’ Award in 2002.

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  • Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist and poet. His best-known novels include Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886). He suffered from ill health and travelled widely in search of healthier climates, finally settling in Samoa. His poetry collections include Ballads (1890) and A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), which contains some of his best-known poems.

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  • Jim Stewart

    Jim Stewart (1952 – 2016) was a Scottish poet and teacher based in Dundee. A collection of his poems was published posthumously by The Voyage Out Press. THIS: Tay Poems (2018) is informed by a love of the natural world and celebrates birds, trees, plants and insects in moments of quiet meditation.

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