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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.

  • Rosie Jackson

    Rosie Jackson is a poet and tutor living in Teignmouth, Devon. Her latest collection is Love Leans Over the Table (Two Rivers Press, 2023). Widely published, Rosie has won many awards including Commended in the National Poetry Competition 2022. She has taken poetry into a number of community and health settings.

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  • Sarah Jackson

    Sarah Jackson is a poet and academic who teaches at Nottingham Trent University. She is also a BBC AHRC New Generation Thinker. Her first poetry collection Pelt (Bloodaxe, 2012) traces an unsettling journey from infancy to old age and won the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize. It was also longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award.

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  • Christopher James

    Christopher James was born in Paisley, Scotland and educated at Newcastle and UEA. A first prize winner in the National Poetry Competition, the Ledbury, Oxford Brooks and Bridport prizes, he is also a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award. He has published several collections, including Farewell to the Earth (Arc, 2011), and The Fool (Templar, 2014) as well as three Sherlock Holmes novels, including The Adventure of the Beer Barons (MX, 2020). He lives in Suffolk with his family, folding bicycle and ukulele.

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  • Kathleen Jamie

    Kathleen Jamie is a Scottish poet and non-fiction writer who has published several poetry collections, including most recently The Bonniest Companie (Picador 2016) which was named Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. Much of her work explores the natural world and negotiates how best we can live in harmony with it. She also encompasses ideas about travel, women’s lives and art. She writes in English and occasionally in Scots.

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  • Andrew Jamison

    Andrew Jamison is a British poet and teacher born in Northern Ireland and now based in Oxford. His first collection was Happy Hour (Gallery Press, 2012) and his most recent is Swans We Cannot See (Gallery Press, 2023). His work has also been widely published in literary journals and anthologies in both the UK and Ireland.

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  • Rachel Jeffcoat

    Rachel Jeffcoat is a Yorkshire-born, Hampshire-based poet whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of publications, including Under the Radar, Tears in the Fence, New Welsh Review, Off the Chest’s Spaces of Significance anthology, and a Ten Poets anthology from Sidekick Books.

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