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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.

  • Kae Tempest

    Kae Tempest is an acclaimed spoken word artist, playwright and novelist who lives in London. In 2014 they released a solo album, Everybody Down, later nominated for a Mercury Award. Their epic narrative poem, ‘Brand New Ancients’, won the 2013 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and their recent poetry collection, Hold Your Own, was published by Picador.

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  • Barry Tench

    Barry Tench is a poet who has been published in various magazines and anthologies nationwide. He has secured Arts Council funding to work on his first collection.

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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892) was Poet Laureate of the UK during most of Queen Victoria’s reign, and is remembered as one of the leading – perhaps the leading – poet of the day.  A prolific author, some of his poems, such as ‘Ulysses’, ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (which recounts the events of a battle in the Crimean War) and the series of poems that make up ‘In Memoriam’ (written in memory of his friend, Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet engaged to Tennyson’s sister) remain cornerstones of nineteenth-century British poetry.

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  • Jean Tepperman

    Jean Tepperman was born in Syracuse, New York. She is a poet, writer, campaigner and teacher and was very active in the anti-Vietnam War movement. Her poems have appeared in publications including Lion Rampant and The Old Mole, as well as in Sisterhood is Powerful (New York, Random House 1970).

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  • ASJ Tessimond

    ASJ Tessimond (1902 – 1962) was a British poet born in Merseyside. He published three poetry collections in his lifetime but a comprehensive Collected Poems wasn’t published until 2010. His work has been widely anthologised, with many readers relishing his witty and humane evocations of life in the modern age.

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  • Molly Thapviwat

    Molly Thapviwat is a poet, writer, and English teacher based in Bangkok, Thailand. Her work has been recognised in the Slipstream Poetry Competition 2025 (Highly Commended), the Welsh Poetry Competition 2025 (Special Mention), and other international contests. Her poems have appeared in trampset and are forthcoming in The MacGuffin and Frontier Poetry. She is currently working on her debut collection and a first novel. Outside her writing, she performs as ‘Elvis Little Sister’ – one of the few professional female Elvis tribute artists worldwide.

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