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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.

  • Lizzie Adcock

    Lizzie Adcock is an artist and textile designer based in Derbyshire. She creates pieces ranging from framed original artwork to textiles and screen- and block-printed fabrics. She also sculpts pewter buttons and decorations. Many of her designs are informed by her love of historical textiles.

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  • Kim Addonizio

    Kim Addonizio is an American writer and the author of seven poetry collections, two novels, two short story collections and two books on writing poetry. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a National Book Award Finalist for her collection Tell Me. Her latest books are Mortal Trash: Poems (WW Norton) and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress (Penguin).

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  • John Agard

    John Agard is a Guyanese poet, author of several poetry collections for both adults and children, the latest being Clever Backbone (2009). He often writes in collaboration with his partner Grace Nichols, and lives in South East England. He has travelled throughout the world performing his poetry.

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  • Anna Akhmatova

    Anna Akhmatova (1889 – 1966) is the pen-name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko who was born near the Black Sea port of Odessa, to an upper-class family. She is widely recognised as one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century and was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965. Her work ranges from short lyric poems to longer cycles such as Requiem which explores Stalin’s rule of terror.

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  • Carry Akroyd

    Carry Akroyd is a painter and printmaker living on the Cambridgeshire/Northamptonshire border. Her work reflects her local arable landscapes and the wildlife that lives there. She also has an affinity with the local Northamptonshire poet John Clare and has illustrated three collections of his poetry. She was President of the John Clare Society in 2016.

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  • Edgar Albert Guest

    Edgar Albert Guest (1881 – 1959) was a British-born American poet who became known as the ‘People’s Poet’ because of the infectious optimism of his verse. In the course of his life he wrote some 11,000 poems, many of which were syndicated in newspapers across the US. His last full collection was Living the Years, published in 1949.

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