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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.

  • Tony Curtis

    Tony Curtis studied Literature at Essex University and Trinity College Dublin. An award-winning poet, he has published eleven collections. His most ecent titles are: Folk (Arc Publications 2011); Pony with drawings and painting by David Lilburn (Occasional Press 2013); Approximately in the Key of C (Arc Publications 2015) and This Flight Tonight with drawing by David Lilburn (Occasional Press 2019). He has received the Irish National Poetry Prize, a Varuna Exchange Fellowship to Australia and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Poetry Prize from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. A renowned performer, Curtis has read his poetry all over the world to great acclaim. He is a member of Aosdána.

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  • Natalie d’Arbeloff

    Natalie d’Arbeloff was born in Paris of a French mother and Russian father. She is a painter, printmaker and writer and has lived in London since the mid-1960s where she started NdA Press in 1974 to produce her own artists’ books. Her work has been acquired by major public and private collections internationally.

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  • Ruth Dallas

    Ruth Dallas (1919 – 2008) was a New Zealand poet. Her first book of poetry, Country Road and Other Poems, was published in 1953. In 1954 she moved to Dunedin where she lived for most of her life. She also wrote short stories and published a number of books for children.  Her last poetry collection was The Joy of a Ming Vase (Otago University Press, 2006).

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  • Nicola Daly

    Nicola Daly studied English and History at Wrexham and now lives in Chester. She has had several poems and short stories published in small press magazines. In 2002 her science fiction novel, Thinking Of England, was published by Pegasus.

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  • Barbara Daniels

    Barbara Daniels has lived much of her life in Wales and her award-winning poems are regularly published in a number of magazines. She is the author of six poetry collections, including Take Off (2002) and The Cartographer Sleeps (2005), published by Shoestring Press.

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  • Jim Daniels

    Jim Daniels is an American poet and writer who has produced fiction and screenplays as well as poetry. He has published numerous collections, most recently Comment Card (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2024). His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry and in Pushcart Prize volumes. He is the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.

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