Kaleem Hawa’s debut poetry collection, She Thinks She’s the Passionate One (2020), won the White Review Poet’s Prize.
Poets
Petra White
Petra White is an Australian poet living in London, her most recent book is Reading for a Quiet Morning (Gloria SMH, 2017).
Phillip B. Williams
Phillip B. Williams is a native of Chicago, Illinois (USA) and author of Thief in the Interior (Alice James, 2016), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
Rushika Wick
Rushika Wick is a writer with an interest in visual poetics and human rights. Her first full length collection with Verve is out in spring 2021.
Helen Tookey
Helen Tookey lives in Liverpool; she has published two poetry collections with Carcanet (Missel-Child, 2014, and City of Departures, 2019) and is working on a third.
Grace Q. Song
Grace is commended in Gboyega Odubanjo’s People Need Nature challenge on Young Poets Network in 2020.
chenrui
chenrui is commended in Gboyega Odubanjo’s People Need Nature challenge on Young Poets Network in 2020.
Finn Farnsworth
Finn is the second-prize winner of Gboyega Odubanjo’s People Need Nature challenge on Young Poets Network in 2020.
Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson is a bestselling author of children’s books whose many works include the modern children’s classics THE GRUFFALO, STICK MAN and ROOM ON THE BROOM (illustrated by Axel Scheffler) and the WHAT THE LADYBIRD HEARD series (illustrated by Lydia Monks). Her books have sold more than 90 million copies worldwide and won numerous major […]
Annie Wright
Annie Wright’s second full collection is Dangerous Pursuit of Yellow (Smokestack Books, 2019) and she’s a regular performer at The Bakehouse, Gatehouse of Fleet in Scotland.
John Morrison
John Morrison was brought up in Liverpool. He lives in London where he worked as a journalist and speechwriter, and now cultivates his tomatoes.
Sarah Mnatzaganian
Sarah Mnatzaganian is an Anglo-Armenian poet who lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire. Her first pamphlet will be published by Against the Grain Press in spring 2022.
Vanessa Lampert
Vanessa Lampert is a poet and acupuncturist from Wallingford, Oxfordshire. She won the Café Writers and Ver poetry prizes in 2020 and came second in the Fish and International Oxford Brookes poetry prizes. Vanessa co-edits the online and print magazine The Alchemy Spoon. Her pamphlet On Long Loan was published by Live Canon in October […]
Hannah Aston
Hannah is commended in the Poetry and Political Language Challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the Orwell Youth Prize.
Emma Chan
Emma is commended in the Poetry and Political Language Challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the Orwell Youth Prize.
Indigo Mudbhary
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Maia Siegel
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Preesha Jain
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Brigitta McKeever
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Victoria Fletcher
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Imogen Beaumont
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Anna Gilmore Heezen
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Linnet Drury
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Daniel Wale
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Zara Meadows
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Leandra Li
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Anna Winkelmann
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Rian Paton
Rian is a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2019. They wrote and judged August Challenge #4: The Spoken Word Challenge on Young Poets Network in 2020.
Jessica Yu
Jessica is the second-prize winner in August challenge #4: The Spoken Word Challenge on Young Poets Network.
Evelyn Blythe
Evelyn Blythe is the third-prize winner in August Challenge #4: The Spoken Word Challenge on Young Poets Network.
Jasmine Kapadia
Jasmine is the first-prize winner of August Challenge #3: Repetition & Imagery on Young Poets Network.
Ottavia Paluch
Ottavia is the third-prize winner of August Challenge #3: Repetition & Imagery on Young Poets Network.
Lauren Lisk
Lauren is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020, and is commended in August Challenge #3: Repetition & Imagery on Young Poets Network.
Iqra Naseem
Iqra is commended in August Challenge #3: Repetition & Imagery on Young Poets Network.
Irma Kiss Barath
Irma is the second-prize winner in the Poetry and Political Language Challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the Orwell Youth Prize. Irma is also commended in August Challenge #1: Re-mixing History, Fiction and the Unexpected.
Erik Rüder
Erik is commended in August Challenge #1: Re-mixing History, Fiction and the Unexpected on Young Poets Network.
Helena Aeberli
Helena is commended in August Challenge #1: Re-mixing History, Fiction and the Unexpected on Young Poets Network.
Ife Olatona
Ife is a commended Foyle Young Poet of 2019. He wrote and judged August Challenge #3: Repetition & Imagery on Young Poets Network in 2020.
Riya Yadav
Riya is commended in August Challenge #2: Fairy Tale Poetry on Young Poets Network.
Molly Scales
Molly is commended in August Challenge #2: Fairy Tale Poetry on Young Poets Network.
Annie Cao
Annie is the first-prize winner of August Challenge #2: Fairy Tale Poetry and the second-prize winner of August Challenge #3: Repetition & Imagery on Young Poets Network.
Christine Marshall
Christine Marshall comes from a fine art background and is currently completing her MA in creative writing at Goldsmiths. Christine writes poetry and memoir. She has self-published a pamphlet of poems called Seam, and a novella The Last Time I Saw Richard. She is currently working on a collection of ekphrastic poems.
Madeleine Wurzburger
Madeleine Wurzburger works as an EFL teacher in Richmond, and has published two poetry pamphlets: Sleeve Catching Fire at Dawn (Poetry Business Competition Winner 2018) and Only a Few are Looking at the Sky at the Right Moment (Agnes Kirk Press 2019).
Frances Malaney
Frances Malaney is a member of Ribble Valley Stanza and teaches on a part-time basis.
Nicky Kippax
Nicky has recently completed a Masters in Creative Writing at York St John University and she is a student mentor in creative writing classes for Converge – the university’s outreach programme for people recovering from mental health difficulties. She has been twice-shortlisted for the Bridport Prize for Poetry, longlisted for the Gingko Eco Poetry Prize […]
Derek Hughes
Derek Hughes is a retired GP, living in semi-rural Leicestershire to which he moved to be involved in his two granddaughter’s upbringing. He has written all his life and is a member of The Poetry Society’s South Leicestershire Stanza. He’s been placed several times in competitions and was delighted to win First Prize in the […]
Mary-Jane Holmes
A Forward Prize nominee and Hawthornden Fellow, Mary-Jane has won the Live Canon Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2020, Bath Novella-in-Flash Prize 2020, the Bridport Poetry prize 2017, Martin Starkie, Dromineer, Reflex Fiction and Mslexia Flash prize as well as the Bedford Poetry competition. In 2020 she was also shortlisted for the Beverley International Prize for Literature […]
Sue Spiers
Sue Spiers lives near Southampton and started writing seriously in 2006 when she began a BA in Literature with the Open University. Her first collection, Jiggle Sac, was published in 2012. 2020 sees the publication of Plague – A Season of Senryu. Her work has appeared in many journals including Acumen, The Interpreters House, Orbis, […]
Jules Whiting
Jules Whiting grew up in the country village of Cholsey, Oxfordshire, and much of the inspiration for her poetry comes from the village and the surrounding countryside, including Lollingdon, The Downs, and Wittenham Clumps. She obtained an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University. Her poems have appeared in Orbis, South, Envoi, The Interpreters […]
Jane Thomas
Jane is currently working on her first pamphlet on the subject of Alzheimer’s. This a condition she knows well having cared for her dad, but it also enables her to explore the meaning of self, memories, identity, language, communication and what it means to be alive. This year, 2020, she has had poems published in […]
Elizabeth Barton
Elizabeth Barton grew up in Surrey. She studied at Cambridge University and has an MA in English. After doing her Postgraduate Certificate in Education, she taught English and Classical Civilisation at a secondary school. She moved with her husband to Madrid, Spain and Virginia, U.S.A. and has since returned to Surrey. Whilst raising her family, […]
Philip Burton
Philip Burton has a love for readings and performance, developed through life as an English and Drama teacher, Lancashire head teacher, folksinger, actor, and multi-award-winning poet. He was also, for some years, a poetry practitioner who, as Pip The Poet, provided hundreds of poetry days for schools and also for adult learners. Three hundred and […]
Fawzia Muradali Kane
Fawzia Muradali Kane is a Trinidadian architect and poet, sometimes based in London. Her debut Tantie Diablesse (Waterloo Press, 2011) was a poetry finalist for the Bocas Lit Fest Prize. Her pamphlet, Houses of the Dead, was published by Thamesis in 2014.
Kimberly Reyes
Kimberly Reyes has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, Callaloo, the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in Ireland, the Munster Literature Centre, the Prague Summer Program for Writers, Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya and elsewhere. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Film Ireland, […]
Annie Lane
Annie is commended in the 2020 poetry translation challenge with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard.
Crystal Peng
Crystal is the second-prize winner in the 2020 poetry translation challenge with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard.
Jhermayne Ubalde
Jhermayne is the third-prize winner in the 2020 poetry translation challenge with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard.
Divya Mehrish
Divya was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2018. She is the third-prize winner in the Poetry and Political Language Challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the Orwell Youth Prize. She is commended in the 2020 poetry translation challenge with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard; and in August Challenge #2: […]
Gemma Craig-Sharples
Gemma is commended in the 2020 poetry translation challenge with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard.
Claire Carlotti
Claire is the first-prize winner in the 2020 poetry translation challenge with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard.
Sairah Ahsan
Sairah is commended in the Ode to (Small) Joy challenge on Young Poets Network.
Liz Byrne
Liz Byrne was born and grew up in Dublin. She now lives on the edge of the West Pennine Moors. She worked as a clinical psychologist in the NHS until her retirement. She was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize, 2019, has had poems commended in the Open Space Poetry Competition and was a finalist […]
Mariah Whelan
Mary Mulholland
Mary Mulholland is a recent Poetry MA graduate of Newcastle University/ The Poetry School. She runs Red Doors Poets and co-edits The Alchemy Spoon. Over the past year she’s been shortlisted for Prole Poetry, longlisted for Acumen, Torbay, won the Momaya Poetry Prize and been published in The High Window, Blue Nib, The Fenland Journal, […]
Martin Reiser
Martin Rieser is both a poet and visual artist. His interactive installations based on his poetry have been shown around the world, including Understanding Echo shown in Japan 2002, Hosts Bath Abbey 2006, Secret Door Invideo Milan 2006, The Street RMIT Gallery Melbourne 2008/ISEA Belfast 2009, Secret Garden, Phoenix Square 2012/Taipei 2013 and RUR at […]
Xiao Yue Shan
Xiao Yue Shan is a poet and editor born in Dongying, China and living in Tokyo, Japan. Her chapbook, How Often I Have Chosen Love, was the winner of the Frontier Poetry Chapbook Prize. Her website is shellyshan.com.
Kirsten Luckins
Kirsten Luckins is a poet, performer and creative producer based in the North East of England. She is the author of performance poems The Trouble With Compassion (Burning Eye Books), Utterly Otterly illustrated poems for grown-up kids (Bx3), and her third collection Passerine will be published by Bad Betty Press in 2021.
Rosie Sandler
Rosie Sandler is a novelist, poet and creative writing workshop leader. Her poems have been published in a wide range of anthologies and journals, including #MeToo: a women’s poetry anthology (ed. Deborah Alma, Fair Acre Press); The Rialto; Writing Motherhood (ed. Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Seren); Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology; The Emma Press Anthology of Dance. She […]
M. G. Leibowitz
M. G. Leibowitz was born and raised in New York. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Creative Nonfiction, Foundry, Mslexia, and West Branch, among others. Her first poetry collection, Hypatia at the Museum, was the winner of the Finishing Line Press 2019 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition, and is forthcoming in the fall […]
Mark Wynne
Mark Wynne’s poetry has been published in Magma magazine, South Bank Poetry, The Moth and Ambit. His first pamphlet, Frank & Stella, will be published by tall-lighthouse in September. His next collection will be published by Knives Forks and Spoons Press in 2021.
Emma Miao
Emma is a commended Foyle Young Poet of 2019 and the third-prize winner of the Artlyst Art to Poetry challenge on Young Poets Network. She is commended in August Challenge #2: Fairy Tale Poetry.
Esther Kim
Esther is a commended Foyle Young Poet of 2019 and is commended in the Artlyst Art to Poetry challenge on Young Poets Network.
Anne Kwok
Anne is a commended Foyle Young Poet of 2019 and the second-prize winner of the Artlyst Art to Poetry challenge on Young Poets Network.
Matt Abbott
Matt Abbott is a Wakefield born poet, educator and activist. He is one of two Patrons of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.
Sandeep Parmar
Sandeep Parmar is Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. Her most recent poetry collection is Eidolon (Shearsman, 2015). She is also a co-author, with Nisha Ramayya and Bhanu Kapil, of Threads, published by Clinic.
Rowan Lyster
Rowan Lyster is a poet, cartoonist and arts administrator from Herefordshire, whose work is forthcoming in Magma, Tears in the Fence and Under The Radar. She can be found on Twitter at @rowanlyster.
James Giddings
James Giddings was born in 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa. His poems have appeared in journals such as The Poetry Review, Ambit and Magma, and in 2015 he was awarded a Northern Writers award. His debut pamphlet Everything is Scripted won Templar Poetry’s Book and Pamphlet Award in 2016 and was shortlisted for a Saboteur […]
Jacquie Shanahan
Jacquie Shanahan has an MA in Creative Writing and is a member of The Poetry Society’s Chiltern Poets Stanza. She works as a technical publisher and volunteers in support of language development in the NHS/Adult Learning, which has inspired some of her poems. ‘the puzzle room’ was one of the winners in The Poetry Society’s […]
D. Nurkse
D. Nurkse is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including Love in the Last Days: After Tristan and Iseult, A Night in Brooklyn, The Border Kingdom, Burnt Island and The Fall (published by Alfred Knopf). CB Editions, London, also published a British edition of A Night in Brooklyn. Voices over Water was shortlisted for […]
Isabelle Baafi
Isabelle Baafi is a writer and poet from London. Her debut pamphlet will be published by ignitionpress in autumn 2020.
Delphine Ruaro
Delphine is commended in the fourth Bloodaxe Archive challenge, Take Note, on Young Poets Network.
Eunice Kim
Eunice is commended in the fourth Bloodaxe Archive challenge, Take Note, on Young Poets Network.
Alexa Stevens
Alexa is commended in the fourth Bloodaxe Archive challenge, Take Note; and in August Challenge #2: Fairy Tale Poetry on Young Poets Network.
Evelyn Byrne
Evelyn is the second-prize winner in the fourth Bloodaxe Archive challenge, Take Note, on Young Poets Network.
Yejin Suh
Yejin is the third-prize winner in the fourth Bloodaxe Archive challenge, Take Note, on Young Poets Network
Harmony Holiday
Born in Waterloo, Iowa, poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday is the daughter of Northern Soul singer/songwriter Jimmy Holiday. Her father died when she was five, and she and her mother moved to Los Angeles. Holiday earned a BA in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA at Columbia University. She is the […]
Mia Nelson
Mia is commended in the Climate Crisis and You challenge, in partnership with the Freud Museum London, and in the Ode to (Small) Joy challenge on Young Poets Network.
Danann Kilburn
Danann is commended in the Climate Crisis and You challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the Freud Museum London.
SZ Shao
SZ Shao is commended in the Climate Crisis and You challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the Freud Museum London.
Alice Brooker
Alice is a winner in the Climate Crisis and You challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the Freud Museum London.
Anya Trofimova
Anya is a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2019.
Kajol Marathe
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2015.
Ian Macartney
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2015.
Jack Sagar
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2015.
Lydia Stone
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2015.
Riona Millar
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2015.
Apollo
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2015.
Allie Spensley
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2015.
Gaia Rose Harper
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2015.
Olivia Shaw
Olivia is commended in the third Bloodaxe Archive challenge, The Re-Re-Re-Drafting Challenge, on Young Poets Network.
Jonathan Huish
Jonathan is commended in the third Bloodaxe Archive challenge, The Re-Re-Re-Drafting Challenge, on Young Poets Network.
Benjamin Whittaker
Benjamin is commended in the third Bloodaxe Archive challenge, The Re-Re-Re-Drafting Challenge, on Young Poets Network.
Jessie Taussig
Jessie is commended in the third Bloodaxe Archive challenge, The Re-Re-Re-Drafting Challenge, on Young Poets Network.
Alex Howe
Alex is the third prize winner in the third Bloodaxe Archive challenge, The Re-Re-Re-Drafting Challenge, on Young Poets Network.
Mona Arshi
Mona Arshi was born in West London where she still lives. She worked as a human rights lawyer for a decade before she started writing poetry. Her debut collection Small Hands (Pavilion Poetry, Liverpool University Press 2015), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2015. Her second collection Dear Big Gods was published […]
Dana Swensen
Dana Swensen is a writer and a teacher. She is currently completing a PhD in English at University of California, Berkeley.
Eithne Cullen
Eithne Cullen is a member of Forest Poets and writes poetry and stories. She has published two novels, The Ogress of Reading and Never not in my Thoughts.
Sara Levy
Sara is a London-based poet, who is currently in her final year of an MA in Poetry with Newcastle University. Her work has appeared in several anthologies.
Matthew Griffiths
Matthew Griffiths is the author of the collection Natural Economy and the critical work The New Poetics of Climate Change. He lives in London with his wife and cat.
Mairghread McLundie
Mairghread McLundie lives near Glasgow and has a background in computing science and design/craft. Her work has been published in Gliberagora, New Writing Scotland 29, and Postbox Magazine. She co-founded Four-em Press in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Wigtown Poetry Prize 2019.
Penny Blackburn
Penny Blackburn lives in North East England and writes poetry and short fiction around her day job as a teacher of special needs students. She is co-host of “Cullerpoets” – the North East Stanza group – and particularly enjoys performing off-page at live events. Her debut pamphlet, with Yaffle Press, will be released in Summer […]
D.S. Marriott
D.S. Marriott was born in Nottingham and educated at the University of Sussex. He is the author of the poetry collections Incognegro (Salt, 2006), Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman, 2008), The Bloods (Shearsman, 2011) and Duppies (Commune Editions, 2019). His chapbooks include In Neuter (Equipage, 2012). His critical books include On Black Men (Edinburgh University Press and […]
Linda Gregerson
Linda Gregerson is an American poet and member of faculty at the University of Michigan. In 2014, she was named as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She is the author of six collections, most recently Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976 to 2014 (Houghton Mifflin, 2015). Her many prizes include a Guggenheim […]
Yomi Ṣode
Yomi Ṣode is a Nigerian British writer, performer, facilitator and Complete Works Alumni. He has read poems at Lagos International Poetry Festival, Afrika Fest with Speaking Volumes in Finland, the New York Public Library with the British Council and at Edinburgh International Book Festival. His writing has been published widely, in The Rialto magazine and […]
Rosie Shepperd
Rosie Shepperd’s That so-easy thing (2012) was a Poetry Business prizewinner. Her collection is The Man at the Corner Table (Seren, 2015) and she is writing her doctorate (Goldsmiths) to identify a way to understand a poem/reading as a paradigm of the creative process of the poet/reader. She was a finalist for the Cardiff, Forward, […]
Louisa Adjoa Parker
Louisa Adjoa Parker is a poet and writer of English-Ghanaian heritage. Her latest poetry collection, How to wear a skin, was published by Indigo Dreams, and her first collection and pamphlet were published by Cinnamon Press. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. She has twice been shortlisted in the Bridport Prize, and […]
Joe Dunthorne
Joe Dunthorne was born and grew up in Swansea. His first novel, Submarine, won the Curtis Brown Award and was translated into twenty languages. His second, Wild Abandon, won the Encore Prize. His latest is The Adulterants. His first collection of poems, O Positive, was published last year by Faber & Faber. He lives in […]
Gerald Smith
Gerald Smith likes three things: big cities, bikes, and stories about dead relatives. His work has been published by Glass Mountain and Z Publishing , and in 2017, he won the University of Houston Provost Prize for his poem ‘Anemoia’ . Currently, he is writing a collection of poetry entitled Micha Anemoia Bear, about trying […]
Cheryl Moskowitz
US-born Cheryl Moskowitz studied Psychology at Sussex University, and started out as an actor/playwright, and performance poet with the radical 1980s poetry collective Angels of Fire. She has been published in The Poetry Review, The Rialto, Magma, and The Manhattan Review amongst others; won prizes in the Bridport, Troubadour, Kent & Sussex and Hippocrates poetry […]
Charlotte Knight
Charlotte Knight is a British-Ukrainian poet. She is currently studying an MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She also works in an inbound call centre where she writes poems between calls. Her poetry is concerned with grief, pregnancy, goats and the moon. Her work has previously been featured in Magma […]
Ann Pelletier-Topping
Ann Pelletier-Topping was born in Montreal, Canada, and has lived in the UK since 1989. She has been writing since 2012 but her interest in poetry began in 2015 while doing a Creative Writing module at the Open University. Writing and reading poetry have since become a necessity and a little haven of happiness. In […]
Susannah Hart
Susannah Hart’s poems have been widely published in magazines and online, including Smiths Knoll, Magma, The North, The Rialto and Poetry London. She has won several prizes for her work and her debut collection Out of True won the Live Canon First Collection Prize in 2018. Susannah is on the board of Magma Poetry. She […]
Thomas McCarthy
Thomas McCarthy was born in County Waterford, Ireland, and is the author of eight poetry collections. Pandemonium (Carcanet, 2016) was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Poetry Now Award. His most recent, Prophecy, was published by Carcanet in 2019. He is a member of Aosdána, the Irish Assembly of artists and writers. He has won the Patrick […]
Chen Chen
Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017, and Bloodaxe Books, 2019), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) New Writers Award, the Texas Book Award […]
Samantha Walton
Samantha Walton is a poet, academic and publisher based in Bristol. Her first poetry collection is Self Heal (Boiler House, 2018) and she co-edits Sad Press poetry.
Katherine Seagan
Katherine is commended in the second Bloodaxe Archive challenge on Young Poets Network, in which Sinéad Morrissey asked for poems using white space.
Jamie Smith
Jamie is commended in the second Bloodaxe Archive challenge on Young Poets Network, in which Sinéad Morrissey asked for poems using white space.
Elinor Clark
Elinor is commended in the second Bloodaxe Archive challenge on Young Poets Network, in which Sinéad Morrissey asked for poems using white space.
Hannah Ross
Hannah is commended in the second Bloodaxe Archive challenge on Young Poets Network, in which Sinéad Morrissey asked for poems using white space.
Matthew Hayhurst
Matthew is commended in the second Bloodaxe Archive challenge on Young Poets Network, in which Sinéad Morrissey asked for poems using white space.
Amy McGinn
Amy is the third-prize winner of the second Bloodaxe Archive challenge on Young Poets Network, about White Space. She is also commended in the first Bloodaxe Archive challenge, The Poetics of the Archive.
Dale Booton
Dale is the first-prize winner in the fourth Bloodaxe Archive challenge, Take Note, on Young Poets Network, and is commended in the first Bloodaxe Archive challenge, The Poetics of the Archive. He is also the second-prize winner in August Challenge #1: Re-mixing History, Fiction and the Unexpected.
Charlotte Hughes
Charlotte is commended in the 2020 poetry translation challenge with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard; the Ode to (Small) Joy challenge; the Artlyst Art to Poetry challenge; and the first Bloodaxe Archive challenge (The Poetics of the Archive) on Young Poets Network.
Jamie Baty
Jamie is the third-prize winner of the first Bloodaxe Archive challenge on Young Poets Network, The Poetics of the Archive, and is commended in the third Bloodaxe Archive challenge, The Re-Re-Re-Drafting Challenge.
Soumyaroop Majumdar
Soumyaroop Majumdar is a poet from Kolkata, India, currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Durham University. He has previously been published in Transect.
Kathrin Schmidt
Kathrin Schmidt is a German poet and prose writer. Her latest collection waschplatz der kühlen dinge (2018) addresses globalisation and migration using the language of politics, advertising and the internet.
Sue Vickerman
With Arts Council support Sue Vickerman is being mentored by Fiona Sampson to develop a cross-genre manuscript including her own poems, some translations of poems, and an element of translation theory, bound by a fictional narrator. Sue has benefited in the past from four Arts Council England awards and has published five works of poetry […]
Alice Miller
Alice Miller is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the International Institute of Modern Letters. She has worked as an historian, a poetry lecturer, and a writer and editor for the United Nations. Alice has published two collections of poetry: The Limits (Shearsman, 2014) and Nowhere Nearer (Pavilion, 2018), a Poetry Book Society […]
Nick Laird
Nick Laird was born in 1975 in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and studied English at the University of Cambridge, where he won the Quiller-Couch Award for creative writing. His debut collection, To a Fault (Faber, 2005), won the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize; his second, On Purpose (Faber, 2007), the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber […]
Amy Acre
Amy Acre is the editor of Bad Betty Press and the author of two pamphlets, And They Are Covered in Gold Light (Bad Betty) and Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads (flipped eye), each chosen as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Her poem, ‘every girl knows’ won the 2019 Verve Poetry Prize.
Annabelle Fuller
Annabelle Fuller is the winner of the under 19 category of the 2018 BBC Proms Poetry Competition.
Christine Vial
Christine Vial – East End baby-boomer, teacher, writer and social activist – published her debut pamphlet Dancing in Blue Flip-flops (RQ pamphlet series) in 2018.
Judith Dimond
Judith Dimond has been writing poetry for twenty years now, since moving into ‘the second half of life’, and now can’t imagine living without it.
Georgia McMillan
Georgia is the first-prize winner in the nonsense poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with Little Angel Theatre, London.
Evie Tempest
Evie is commended in the nonsense poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with Little Angel Theatre, London.
Amelie Coyle
Amelie is commended in the nonsense poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with Little Angel Theatre, London.
Beatrix Livesey-Stephens
Beatrix is commended in the nonsense poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with Little Angel Theatre, London.
Monica Yell
Monica is the second-prize winner in the nonsense poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with Little Angel Theatre, London.
Hannah Swingler
Hannah Swingler is a poet, storyteller, artist and teacher. Her first collection The Dress Has Pockets was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2019. She has performed across the country and internationally, on stages, streets and radio. Her work explores themes of nostalgia, family relationships, mental health, and local history and heritage. Hannah has been […]
Jane Commane
Jane Commane is a poet, writer and editor based in the Midlands, UK. Her debut collection of poems, Assembly Lines, was published by Bloodaxe Books in February 2018 and she was a Jerwood Compton Fellow in 2017-18.
Hania Habib
Hania is commended in August challenge #4 on the poetics of interrogation, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Kara Jackson in 2019, on Young Poets Network.
Megan Mumby
Megan is commended in August challenge #4 on the poetics of interrogation, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Kara Jackson in 2019, on Young Poets Network.
Alara Egi
Alara is the first prize winner in August challenge #4 on the poetics of interrogation, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Kara Jackson in 2019, on Young Poets Network. She is additionally commended in August Challenge #2: Fairy Tale Poetry.
Duy Quang Mai
Quang is the third-prize winner in August challenge #3 on meta-poetry, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Danique Bailey in 2019, on Young Poets Network.
Jewel Cao
Jewel is a winner in the Climate Crisis and You challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the Freud Museum London. Jewel is also the second-prize winner in the first Bloodaxe Archive challenge, The Poetics of the Archive; and in the August challenge #3 on meta-poetry, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Danique […]
Evie Collins
Evie is a commended Foyle Young Poet of the Year 2018. Evie is also commended in August challenge #3 on meta-poetry, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Danique Bailey in 2019.
Danique Bailey
Danique is a commended Foyle Young Poet of the Year 2018. She wrote and judged August challenge #3 on meta-poetry on Young Poets Network in 2019.
Anna Westwig
Anna is the first-prize winner in August Challenge #1: Re-mixing History, Fiction and the Unexpected. She is commended in the Artlyst Art to Poetry challenge, in the first Bloodaxe Archive challenge (The Poetics of the Archive), and in the 2019 August challenge #2 on how-to poetry, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Fiyinfoluwa Oladipo, […]
Elaine Choy
Elaine is commended in the 2019 August challenge #2 on how-to poetry, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Fiyinfoluwa Oladipo.
Tae Suzumiya
Tae is commended in the 2019 August challenge #2 on how-to poetry, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Fiyinfoluwa Oladipo.
Elspeth Wilson
Elspeth is commended in the Climate Crisis and You challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the Freud Museum London; and in August challenge #1 2019: Photographic Poetry – Capture the Moment, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Andrew Pettigrew.
Elsie Hayward
Elsie is the first-prize winner of the Artlyst Art to Poetry challenge and the first-prize winner of the Ode to (Small) Joy challenge on Young Poets Network. She is also commended in August challenge #1 2019: Photographic Poetry – Capture the Moment.
Reham Younis
Reham is commended in August challenge #1 2019: Photographic Poetry – Capture the Moment on Young Poets Network, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Andrew Pettigrew.
Emma Rowley
Emma is commended in August challenge #1 2019: Photographic Poetry – Capture the Moment on Young Poets Network, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Andrew Pettigrew.
Morven Grey
Eisha is the third prize winner in August challenge #1 2019: Photographic Poetry – Capture the Moment on Young Poets Network, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Andrew Pettigrew.
Eisha Tandon
Eisha is the second prize winner in August challenge #1 2019: Photographic Poetry – Capture the Moment on Young Poets Network, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Andrew Pettigrew.
Peter LaBerge
Peter was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2012, and is commended in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2019. His conversation with fellow Foyle Young Poet Margot Armbruster is published on Young Poets Network, as part of The Poetry Society’s celebrations of 20 years of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award. Peter is the […]
Eleanor Fullwood
Eleanor is commended in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2019.
Emily Liu
Emily is commended in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2019.
Maggie Wang
Maggie is the second prize winner in the third Bloodaxe Archive challenge, The Re-Re-Re-Drafting Challenge on Young Poets Network. She is the third-prize winner in August Challenge #1: Re-mixing History, Fiction and the Unexpected. She is additionally commended in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2019; in August challenge #3 on meta-poetry, written and judged by Foyle […]
Rachel Haddy
Rachel is commended in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2019.
Yvette Naden
Yvette is the third-prize winner of the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2019.
Chloe Elliott
Chloe is the first-prize winner of the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2019.
Amelia Dubin
Amelia Dubin (also known as Amelia Dye) was commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018. She is a climate activist, and has been published on Young Poets Network speaking about climate activism and poetry.
Hannah Brockbank
Hannah Brockbank is joint winner of the 2016 Kate Betts Award. Publications featuring her work include Hallelujah for 50ft Women Anthology (Bloodaxe), A Way through the Woods Anthology (Binsted Arts), Full Moon & Foxglove Anthology (Three Drops Press), The London Magazine, Envoi, Sarasvati, Atrium, Procreate MAMA, When Women Waken Journal, Bonnie’s Crew (in aid of […]
David Canning
David published his first collection An Essex Parish in 2015. He was long-listed in the Poetry Society National Poetry Competition in 2017, shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2017 and 2018 and won first prize and a special mention in the Sentinel Quarterly Literary Review in Summer 2017. In 2016 he featured in the Essex […]
Veronica Zundel
Veronica Zundel is an Oxford English graduate and freelance writer for the Christian market who has just completed the Poetry School/Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry. She writes a regular column for Woman Alive magazine, for which she won a national award as Best Specialist Columnist, beating columnists for the Mail on Sunday. She has […]
Antony Mair
Antony Mair now lives in Hastings, but has lived in Germany and France and spent time as an English language teacher, Benedictine monk, shopkeeper in New Bond Street and, for the major part of his professional life, a commercial lawyer in the City, before becoming an estate agent in the Dordogne. He founded the Hastings […]
Michael Shann
Originally from Yorkshire, Michael has lived in London since 1998 and is a member of the Forest Poets Stanza in Walthamstow. He has had one pamphlet and two collections of poetry published by the Paekakariki Press: Euphrasy (2012), Walthamstow (2015) and To London (2017). Michael was longlisted in the 2017 National Poetry Competition and his […]
Niall Firth
Niall Firth is a journalist from Darlington who lives in north-east London. His poems have been published widely in magazines such as The Rialto, Lighthouse, Litmus, Butcher’s Dog, and The Interpreter’s House and on websites like And Other Poems and Ink, Sweat and Tears. He was long-listed in the Winchester Poetry Prize in 2018, when […]
Alastair Llewellyn-Smith
A former actor, Alastair Llewellyn-Smith buys and sell wine for a living. He is married, and has four adult children. He has been writing poems all his life. He’s also written five (unpublished) novels since 1998, but returned full-time to poetry at the beginning of 2016. Since then, he’s had poems and reviews published in […]
Belinda Rimmer
Belinda has worked as a psychiatric nurse, lecturer and creative arts practitioner. Her poems have been widely published in magazines, on-line journals and anthologies, including: Under the Radar, Ambit, Brittle Star, Dream Catcher, Eye Flash, and Ink, Sweat & Tears. In 2017, she won the Poetry in Motion Competition to turn her poem into an […]
Penny Boxall
Penny Boxall is currently Visiting Research Fellow in the Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford. She won the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award with Ship of the Line. Her second collection, Who Goes There?, is published by Valley Press. Her collection-in-progress has won a Northern Writer’s Award (2019) and a grant from the Authors’ Foundation. She won […]
Lauren Hollingsworth-Smith
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019.
Talulah Quinto
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019.
Thomas Frost
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019.
Dana Collins
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019, Dana is also commended in the Ode to (Small) Joy challenge on Young Poets Network.
Annie Davison
Annie is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019, and is commended in the Artlyst Art to Poetry challenge on Young Poets Network.
Trinity Robinson
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019.
Jean Klurfeld
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019.
Libby Russell
Libby is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019 and 2020, and is commended in August Challenge #1: Re-mixing History, Fiction and the Unexpected on Young Poets Network.
Amy Saunders
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019.
Helen Woods
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019, and commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2014 and 2016.
Sue Burge
Sue Burge is a poet and freelance creative writing and film studies tutor based in North Norfolk.
Jo Burns
Born in Northern Ireland, Jo Burns lives in Germany. Her poems have appeared in Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry News, Southword, The Stinging Fly, The Tangerine, Magma and elsewhere. She won the McClure Poetry Prize 2017 at the Irish Writers Festival, CA, the Magma Poetry Competition 2018, the New Irish Writing in Germany Poetry […]
David Borrott
David Borrott has an MA in Poetry from Manchester Metropolitan University. His poetry has been anthologised in Watermark, published by Flax, and in CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets. His pamphlet Porthole (Smith|Doorstop, 2015) is part of the Poetry Business Laureate’s Choice series, chosen by Carol Ann Duffy.
Jonathan Greenhause
Winner of Aesthetica Magazine’s 2018 Creative Writing Award in Poetry and the 2017 Ledbury Poetry Competition, Jonathan Greenhause lives in New Jersey, USA, with his wife and two sons. He misses Wales.
Rory Waterman
Rory Waterman’s two collections, both from Carcanet, are Tonight the Summer’s Over (2013), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for a Heaney Award, and Sarajevo Roses (2017), shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize.
Valzhyna Mort
Valzhyna Mort, described by the Irish Times as “[a] risen star of the international poetry world”, was born in Minsk, Belarus. Her poetry collections include Factory of Tears and Collected Body (published by Copper Canyon Press in 2008 and 2011); her third collection, Music for the Dead and Resurrected, was published in 2020 by Farrar, […]
Romalyn Ante
Romalyn Ante’s debut collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness, is forthcoming from Chatto in 2020.
Mark Waldron
Mark Waldron was born in New York in 1960 and grew up in London. He began writing poetry in his early forties and published two collections with Salt, The Brand New Dark (2008) and The Itchy Sea (2011). His third collection, Meanwhile, Trees, was published by Bloodaxe in 2016, and his fourth, Sweet, like Rinky-Dink, was published by Bloodaxe in 2019. […]
Tehila Hakimi
Tehila Hakimi is a Hebrew-language poet, fiction writer and mechanical engineer from Israel. Her debut poetry collection, We’ll Work Tomorrow (Tangier Publishing), won the 2015 Bernstein Prize for Literature. Her most recent title is Company (Resling, 2018).
Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein, who died on 23 September 2019, was an award-winning poet, novelist and biographer. She grew up in Leicester and read English at Newnham College, Cambridge. She was the author of over thirty books, including fiction and biography, and wrote for radio and television. Her reviews and essays appeared regularly in The Poetry Review […]
Rachel Burns
Rachel was a runner-up in the 19+ category in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2019.
Renée Orleans-Lindsay
Renée was a runner-up in the 12-18 category in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2019.
Joyce Chen
Joyce Chen is one of two runners-up in the 12-18 category of the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2019. She is commended in the Ode to (Small) Joy challenge on Young Poets Network.
Isabella Jiang
Isabella is commended in the 2019 poetry translation challenge on Young Poets Network with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard.
Maia Brown
Maia is commended in the 2019 poetry translation challenge on Young Poets Network with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard.
Daniel Baksi
Daniel is commended in the 2019 poetry translation challenge on Young Poets Network with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard.
Beth Bayliss
Beth is commended in the 2019 poetry translation challenge on Young Poets Network with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard.
Aldwin Li
Aldwin is the second-prize winner in the 2019 poetry translation challenge on Young Poets Network with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard.
Noah Jacob
Noah is a 2018 SLAMbassador.
Jaeden Koshoni
Jaeden is a 2018 SLAMbassador.
Beth-Ellen Hollis
Beth-Ellen is a 2018 SLAMbassador.
Noah Jacob
Noah is a 2018 SLAMbassador.
Aaisha Alfathi
Aaisha is a 2018 SLAMbassador.
Precious Olisaokafor
Precious is a 2018 SLAMbassador.
Joshua Eyakware
Joshua is a 2018 SLAMbassador.
Destiny Adeyemi
Destiny Adeyemi is a 2018 SLAMbassador.
Kara Jackson
Commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award in 2016 and 2017, Kara Jackson has been both the Youth Poet Laureate of the USA (2019) and the Youth Poet Laureate of Chicago (2018-19). She won the literary award at the 2018 Louder Than a Bomb finals selected by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize […]
Anna Szabó
Anna Szabó was born in Romania in 1972 and moved to Hungary in 1987, where she studied Hungarian and English. She translates into Hungarian, and has worked with Joyce, Plath, Yeats, and Updike. She published her first volume of poetry when she was twenty-three, winning the Petofi Prize for promising young poets. Her poetry has […]
Theresa Lola
Theresa Lola is a British Nigerian poet. She was the 2019/2020 Young People’s Laureate for London and is an alumna of the Barbican Young Poets programme. Her debut poetry collection In Search of Equilibrium was published by Nine Arches Press In February 2019. She is leading on #MyMentalHealthJourney, a project run by Spread the Word […]
Andrew Pettigrew
Andrew is a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2017. He has interviewed Ian McMillan for Young Poets Network, and is also the writer and judge of Young Poets Network’s August challenge #1 on photographic poetry.
Alice Broadbent
Alice is commended in the Mary Wollstonecraft challenge, written and judged by Bee Rowlatt of the Mary on the Green campaign.
Rachel Bruce
Rachel is commended in the Mary Wollstonecraft challenge on Young Poets Network, written and judged by Bee Rowlatt of the Mary on the Green campaign.
Eve Perrins
Eve is the second-prize winner in the Mary Wollstonecraft challenge on Young Poets Network, written and judged by Bee Rowlatt of the Mary on the Green campaign.
Tom Rowe
Tom is the first-prize winner in the Mary Wollstonecraft challenge on Young Poets Network, written and judged by Bee Rowlatt of the Mary on the Green campaign. He is also commended in the second Bloodaxe Archive challenge, in which Sinéad Morrissey asked for poems using white space; commended in August Challenge #2: Fairy Tale Poetry; […]
Hugh Smith
Hugh Smith is a writer from London. He works as an ESL teacher and audio transcriptionist.
Suji Kwock Kim
Suji Kwock Kim is the author of Notes from the Divided Country, which won the Addison Metcalf Award, the Walt Whitman Award, the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers/ Northern California Book Award, and was a finalist for the Griffin Prize. Her chapbook, Notes from the North, was a winner in the 2018/2019 […]
Joey Connolly
Joey Connolly grew up in Sheffield and now lives in London, where he works as Head of Faber Academy. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2012 and his first collection, Long Pass, was published by Carcanet in 2017.
Sophie Orman
Sophie is commended in the moon poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, judged by Nii Parkes.
Max Dixon
Max is the third-prize winner in the moon poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, judged by Nii Parkes, and is commended in Gboyega Odubanjo’s People Need Nature challenge in 2020.
Pauline Sturges
Pauline Sturges has a Masters in Creative Writing (Novels) and was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2016 and in 2018. She was longlisted for The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition 2018. Pauline interprets her lived world with words and pictures: the bleak Pennine moors inform a poetry of grief for Earth’s uncertain future alongside […]
Phil Coleman
Phil Coleman has been writing since his teenage years. He lives near Swansea.
Clare Best
Clare Best’s first full collection, Excisions, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize 2012. She has performed her autobiographical poem cycle ‘Self-portrait without Breasts’ across the UK and Ireland, and in the USA and Canada. Other poetry publications include Treasure Ground, Breastless and CELL. Springlines, a collaboration with the painter Mary Anne Aytoun-Ellis, exploring […]
Joanna Guthrie
Joanna Guthrie’s first collection Billack’s Bones was published by Rialto in 2007. She was selected for the Aldeburgh Eight in 2018. She has recently completed her second collection Water Person Kit. Her poems have been published in The Poetry Review, Butcher’s Dog, Magma, Poetry Ireland, Poetry Ireland Review and Rialto. Her prose has appeared The […]
Angela Platt
Angela Platt was The Poetry Society Stanza Rep for Newport and and had been a Poetry Society Member for many years. In summer 2019 Angela’s poem ‘Moonshine’ was published in Poetry News in response to our competition judged by Kit Fan. Kit said: “The speaker’s sharp-eyed observations take us through the divide between nature and […]
Jess Green
BBC Slam Champion and Scottish National Slam Finalist, Jess Green is a performance poet and playwright who has performed at Glastonbury, Latitude, Bestival and the Edinburgh Fringe. Her first collection, Burning Books (2015, Burning Eye Books) was shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award and as a live show received 5* reviews at the Edinburgh […]
Kat Francois
Kat Francois is a performance artist, poet, actor, playwright, director, youth and adult workshop facilitator, and comedian. Kat was the first person to win a televised poetry slam in the UK, on BBC3 in 2004, and a year later went on to win the World Slam Poetry Championships in Rotterdam. As a playwright, Kat has […]
Fathima Zahra
Zahra is the first-prize winner of the moon poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, judged by Nii Parkes, and the third-prize winner in the Golden Shovel challenge, judged by Peter Kahn. Zahra is also commended in August challenge #3 on meta-poetry, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Danique Bailey in 2019.
Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds has been the recipient of many awards including the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980. She currently teaches creative writing at New York University. Stag’s Leap (Cape, 2012) won […]
B.C. Leale
B.C. Leale (1930–2018) worked as a bookseller for many years at Claude Gill Books in London’s Oxford Street, resolutely defending a poetry section that was full of surprises. His own work appeared in more than fifty publications, including Encounter, the London Review of Books, The Observer, the Times Literary Supplement and Ambit, Bang, but it […]
Les Murray
Les Murray (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) grew up on a dairy farm at Bunyah, New South Wales. He studied at Sydney University and later worked as a translator at the Australian National University and as an officer in the Prime Minister’s Department. Murray first visited Europe in the sixties, and returned frequently […]
Lauren Aspery
Lauren is the second-prize winner of the Carol Ann Duffy challenge on Young Poets Network, judged by Mari Hughes-Edwards, and celebrating Duffy’s legacy as Poet Laureate.
Hebe Fryer
Hebe is commended in the Carol Ann Duffy challenge on Young Poets Network, judged by Mari Hughes-Edwards, and celebrating Duffy’s legacy as Poet Laureate.
Emily Boyle
Emily is commended in the Carol Ann Duffy challenge on Young Poets Network, judged by Mari Hughes-Edwards, and celebrating Duffy’s legacy as Poet Laureate.
Dan Fitt-Palmer
Dan is commended in the Carol Ann Duffy challenge on Young Poets Network, judged by Mari Hughes-Edwards, and celebrating Duffy’s legacy as Poet Laureate.
Georgie West
Georgie is commended in the Carol Ann Duffy challenge on Young Poets Network, judged by Mari Hughes-Edwards, and celebrating Duffy’s legacy as Poet Laureate; she is also commended in the Golden Shovel challenge on Young Poets Network, judged by Peter Kahn.
Aliyah Begum
Aliyah was commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017. She is also commended in the nonsense poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with Little Angel Theatre, London. Aliyah is the Birmingham Young Poet Laureate 2018-20.
Patricia Childerhouse
Patricia Childerhouse is a lifelong lover of poetry but teaching A-level Eng Lit for twenty years put her off trying to write any. Now in her crone-age she is having a go and enjoying it. Her book Twenty Sussex Walks was published by Snake River Press when her surname was Bowen. She has had one […]
Lia Brooks
Lia Brooks’ poetry can be found in Poetry London, Mslexia, Magma and Agenda, among others in the UK and US. Her work has been commended in the Troubadour Poetry Prize, the Mslexia Pamphlet Competition and the Café Writers Poetry Competition. It has also been shortlisted in the Bridport Poetry Prize and the Mslexia Poetry Competition. […]
Ella Frears
Ella Frears is a poet and visual artist. Her pamphlet, Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity was published by Goldsmiths Press. She’s had poems in the LRB, Poetry London, Ambit, and The Rialto among others and was a finalist for the Arts Foundation Fellowship in Poetry. She’s completed residencies for the National Trust, Tate Britain, K6 Gallery and Royal Holloway University. Her collaborative installation The Six Pillars of […]
Nick Garrard
Nick Garrard works as a teacher in London, where he lives with his girlfriend and their cheese plant, Chas. He has written for 3AM, Literary Review and the Independent on Sunday. His poetry has appeared in Magma and as part of the podcast series, ‘Bedtime Stories for the End of the World‘.
Amaury Wonderling
Amaury Wonderling is a poet and filmmaker. He holds a Master’s Degree in Physics, a Bachelor’s Degree in Screenwriting, and studies Philosophy in his spare time. He enjoys drinking Bénédictine, watching Mixed Martial Arts and listening to Burial. He is currently working on his first poetry collection.
Natalie Shaw
Natalie Shaw lives and works in London. She has a kind husband and children of varying sizes. She is currently editing Medusa and Her Sisters, a book of poems written in response to drawings by artist Natalie Sirett.
Vasiliki Albedo
Vasiliki Albedo lives in Greece and has worked with fuel cell technology, as a children’s entertainer, in the daycare centre of a psychiatric hospital, and for NGOs promoting green technology in developing countries . In 2017 she placed second in the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre competition (EAL), and won joint third place in the Brian […]
Kirsten Irving
Kirsten Irving is a Lincolnshire-born poet and voiceover, and one half of the team behind collaborative press Sidekick Books. Her work has been published by Happenstance and Salt, widely anthologised, and thrown out of a helicopter. She won the 2011 and 2017 Live Canon International Poetry Prizes, and is currently working on her second collection […]
Katie Griffiths
Katie Griffiths grew up in Ottawa, Canada – the daughter of Northern Irish parents. In 2016 she was published in Primers Volume One (Nine Arches). She has been longlisted in the National Poetry Competition twice, and her pamphlet My Shrink is Pregnant was longlisted in the Paper Swans Press competition. Her work has appeared in […]
Em Power and Elizabeth Thatcher
A poem by Em Power and Elizabeth Thatcher was commended in the meme challenge, written and judged by poet Rishi Dastidar, on Young Poets Network. See Em Power’s biog here. See Elizabeth Thatcher’s biog here.
Chanchal Kumar
Chanchal is the first-prize winner in the meme challenge, written and judged by poet Rishi Dastidar, on Young Poets Network.
Yolanda Moran
Yolanda is commended in the tree poetry challenge on Young Poets Network.
Patrick Tong
Patrick is commended in the tree poetry challenge on Young Poets Network,
Stephanie Chang
Stephanie is commended in the tree poetry challenge on Young Poets Network.
Jack Helme
Jack is the second-prize winner in the tree poetry challenge on Young Poets Network.
Roy McFarlane
Roy McFarlane was born in Birmingham of Jamaican parentage and has spent most of his years living in Wolverhampton. He has held the role of Birmingham’s Poet Laureate and Starbucks’ Poet in Residence, and is presently the Birmingham & Midland Institute’s Poet in Residence. Roy’s writing has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Out of […]
Tishani Doshi
Tishani Doshi is a poet and dancer of Welsh-Gujarati descent. Born in Madras, she spent part of her childhood in Wales, gained her Masters from Johns Hopkins University in the US, and worked in London before returning to India to work with the choreographer Chandralekha, with whom she performed on many international stages. She received […]
Hannah Sullivan
Hannah Sullivan lives in London with her husband and two sons and is an Associate Professor of English at New College, Oxford. She received her PhD from Harvard in 2008 and taught in California for four years. Her study of modernist writing, The Work of Revision, was published in 2013 and awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay […]
Susan Richardson
Susan Richardson is a poet, performer, educator and editor, whose collections, Creatures of the Intertidal Zone, Where the Air is Rarefied, skindancing and Words the Turtle Taught Me are published by Cinnamon Press. In addition to her residency with the Marine Conservation Society, she was poet-in-residence with the global animal welfare initiative, World Animal Day. […]
Rainie Oet
Rainie Oet is a nonbinary writer and game designer, Editor-in-Chief at Salt Hill, and the author of two books of poetry: Inside Ball Lightning (SEMO Press) and Glorious Veils of Diane (Carnegie Mellon University Press). They are an MFA candidate at Syracuse University, where they were awarded the Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction. Read more […]
Rishi Dastidar
Rishi Dastidar’s poetry has been published by Financial Times, New Scientist and the BBC amongst many others. His debut collection Ticker-tape is published by Nine Arches Press, and a poem from it was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2018. A member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, he is also chair of the London writer […]
Vandana Khanna
Vandana Khanna was born in New Delhi, India, and raised in Falls Church, Virginia. She earned her B.A. from the University of Virginia and her MFA from Indiana University, where she was the recipient of the Yellen Fellowship in poetry. She is the author of two full collections: Train to Agra and Afternoon Masala, as […]
David Clarke
David Clarke’s second collection of poetry, The Europeans, is forthcoming from Nine Arches Press in March 2019.
Sharon Phillips
Sharon retired from a career in education in 2015. Since then, she has been learning to write poems, some of which have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The High Window, Snakeskin and Algebra of Owls, amongst others.
Sarah Reeson
Sarah Reeson is a mother of two. She uses poetry and prose to free her creative spirit.
Thurab Sharifi
Thurab is commended in the Bletchley Park challenge on Young Poets Network.
Jack Cooper
Jack is the first-prize winner of the second Bloodaxe Archive challenge on Young Poets Network, about White Space. He is the second-prize winner of the Ode to (Small) Joy challenge, and the third-prize winner of the Carol Ann Duffy challenge and the nonsense poetry challenge. Jack is commended in Gboyega Odubanjo’s People Need Nature challenge, […]
Asmaa Jama
Asmaa is commended in the Bletchley Park challenge on Young Poets Network.
Jayant Kashyap
Jayant is the third-prize winner in the Bletchley Park challenge on Young Poets Network. He is also commended in the tree poetry challenge, in the fourth Bloodaxe Archive challenge, Take Note, and in August Challenge #1: Re-mixing History, Fiction and the Unexpected.
Andrew Fentham
Andrew Fentham is a writer and translator based in Cornwall.
Kinga Fabó
Kinga Fabó is a poet, linguist and philosopher based in Budapest. Her books include five collections of poetry in Hungarian.
Ralf Webb
Ralf Webb lives and works in London. Recent poems have appeared in the London Review of Books, Test Centre, Hotel and PAIN.
Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s latest collection, The Ruined Elegance (Princeton, 2016), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Duo Yu
Duo Yu co-founded the prominent ‘Lower Body’ Movement based in Beijing during the early 2000s.
Janet Sutherland
Janet Sutherland studied at Cardiff and Essex Universities, and has an MA in American Poetry. She works as a poet, editor and freelance workshop provider and mentor. Her poems have appeared in magazines including The Poetry Review, The New Statesman, The Rialto, The Spectator, Poetry Ireland Review and The London Magazine, and are widely anthologised, […]
Robert Dickinson
Naomi Wallace
Patricia Bishop
Patricia Bishop was born and bred in London but has lived in various places since. She has been published in many magazines and anthologies and her work has been read on Radio 4 and various local radio stations. In 1994, she was the joint second prize winner for the National Poetry Competition.
Catherine Byron
Catherine Byron is an Irish poet whose first book of poetry, Settlements, appeared in 1985, and she has since published five collections, the most recent being The Getting of Vellum (which was reissued by the Salmon press in 2007).
Geoffrey Constable
Joseph Coelho
Joseph Coelho’s poems have been published in several Macmillan anthologies including Green Glass Beads edited by Jacqueline Wilson. Joseph has been a guest poet on CBeebies Rhyme Rocket where he was beamed up from The Rhyme Rock to perform his Bug Poem and has featured alongside Michael Rosen and Valerie Bloom on Radio 4’s Poetry […]
Gail McConnell
Gail McConnell is from Belfast and her debut poetry pamphlet is Fourteen (Green Bottle Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared in Blackbox Manifold, PN Review and elsewhere. Gail was co-winner of the Ink Sweat & Tears Pamphlet Competition 2017 and will publish a second pamphlet in 2019, exploring the interaction between parenthood and queerness. Its […]
Tallulah Howarth
Tallulah is commended in Bailey Blackburn’s 2018 August challenge #2 on found poems on Young Poets Network, and the third-prize winner of Kara Jackson’s 2019 August challenge #4 on the poetics of interrogation.
Christiane Hitchcock
Christiane is commended in Bailey Blackburn’s 2018 August challenge #2 on found poems on Young Poets Network.
Samantha Lascelles
Samantha is commended in Bailey Blackburn’s 2018 August challenge #2 on found poems on Young Poets Network.
Sally Liu
Sally is commended in Bailey Blackburn’s 2018 August challenge #2 on found poems on Young Poets Network.
Gwenllian Rees
Gwenllian is the second-prize winner of Bailey Blackburn’s 2018 August challenge #2 on found poems on Young Poets Network.
Ollie O’Neill
Ollie O’Neill is a young poet based in London. In 2013 she won SLAMbassadors, the UK’s national youth slam championship, and she has since gone on to read at venues such as Soho Theatre, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Cheltenham Literature Festival, and many more. She was shortlisted for one of the Out-Spoken Prize for […]
Quinn Lui
Quinn is the first-prize winner of the 2018 August Challenge #4 on using the vernacular in poetry, and is commended in Bailey Blackburn’s 2018 August challenge #2 on found poems on Young Poets Network.
Joseph Butler
Joseph Butler is a blacksmith, boat-builder, poet and nurse. His work reflects a lifelong interest in the links between creativity and wellbeing. He has led participatory arts events across a range of media, including creative writing workshops in schools, prisons, hospitals and colleges of higher education. He lives in a narrowboat on the South Oxford […]
Nazanin Soghrati
Nazanin is the second-prize winner in the 2019 August challenge #2 on how-to poetry, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Fiyinfoluwa Oladipo. Nazanin is also commended in the 2018 August challenge #1 on prose poems.
William Snelling
William is commended in Gboyega Odubanjo’s People Need Nature challenge on Young Poets Network in 2020 and the 2019 poetry translation challenge with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard. He is also the third-prize winner of the 2018 August Challenge #1 on prose poems on Young Poets Network and is commended in the […]
Beatriz Santos
Beatriz is commended in the Timothy Corsellis Poetry Prize 2018 on Young Poets Network.
Natalie Linh Bolderston
Natalie Linh Bolderston won the silver Creative Future Writers’ Award in 2018 and was a runner-up in the 2019 BBC Proms Poetry Competition. She was the first-prize winner in the Young Poets Network Golden Shovel challenge, judged by Peter Kahn; and has also won prizes in the moon poetry challenge, the Timothy Corsellis Poetry Prize […]
Isaac Silver
Isaac is the first-prize winner in the Timothy Corsellis Poetry Prize 2018 on Young Poets Network.
Eleni Cay
Eleni Cay is a Slovakian-born poet writing in English and Slovak. Her most recent poems appeared in Atticus Review, Glasgow Review of Books, Poetry Ireland Review, Acumen and Envoi. Her poems were also published in anthologies and translated to German, French and Romanian. Eleni’s award-winning collection of Slovak poems A Butterfly’s Trembling in the Digital […]
Josephine Corcoran
Josephine Corcoran’s work as a short story writer and playwright has been broadcast on BBC R4 and R4Extra. She has published two poetry collections, a pamphlet with tall-lighthouse and a full collection with Nine Arches Press. She is founder and editor of the online site And Other Poems and works as a writer in schools […]
Rob Miles
Rob Miles is from Devon and lives in Yorkshire. His poetry has appeared widely or is forthcoming in magazines and anthologies such as Ambit, Orbis, The Interpreter’s House, York Literary Review, South Bank Poetry, Angle, The New European, Stand, The Anthology of Age and The Anthology of Love (both the Emma Press), The Garden (OWF […]
Lesley Ingram
Lesley was born in Doncaster and now lives in Ledbury. At 12 she wanted to be a poet, but at 14 the school Careers Officer told her that any career in writing was a ‘silly idea’. At 49 she gave herself permission to try, and gained a CW Diploma from the Open University followed by […]
Helen Jayne Gunn
Helen’s poems have been published by Mslexia, Leaf Books, Shoestring Press, Soundswrite Press and other poetry publications. She started reading and writing poetry when she got a job in a prison teaching creative writing sessions. A few years ago, she began studying for a Fine Art degree. In 2016 she was selected to show her […]

Richard Westcott
Once upon a time, Richard Westcott was a doctor. Although cobwebs now hang from his stethoscope, his poetry often remembers his past life, helping to inspire (if that’s the right word) his poetry, in particular his pamphlet There they live much longer, published by Indigo Dreams. He’s won a prize and commendation or two here […]
Georgie Woodhead
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018.
Elizabeth Thatcher
Elizabeth is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018 and is commended in the Young Poets Network meme challenge, written and judged by poet Rishi Dastidar, with a poem she wrote jointly with Em Power.
Maggie Olszewski
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018.
Sammy Loehnis
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018.
Angela King
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018.
Olivia Hu
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018.
Suki Datar Jones
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018.
Maiya Dambawinna
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018.
Caitlin Catheld Pyper
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018.
Mathilda Armiger
Mathilda is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018, and is the second-prize winner in the Golden Shovel challenge on Young Poets Network, judged by Peter Kahn.
Don Paterson
Carl Griffin
Carl Griffin is from Swansea. His poems have appeared in Cake, Magma, Poetry Wales, Ink sweat and tears and the Cheval anthology series. He was recently longlisted for the Cinnamon Poetry Pamphlet Prize and the Melita Hume Prize, and also commended in the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize. He has reviewed for Wales Arts Review.
Steve Xerri
Steve Xerri has worked as a teacher, musician and designer. He now splits his time between making pottery and writing poetry.
Sarah Barnsley
Sarah Barnsley was joint runner-up in the Poetry School/Pighog Pamphlet Competition (2014). Her pamphlet, The Fire Station, appeared from Telltale Press in 2015. She has also published a selection of her literary criticism.
K.V. Skene
K.V. Skene is a Canadian poet whose work has been widely published. A winner of the erbacce prize for poetry 2018, her collection Unoriginal Sins was published recently by erbacce-press. She was also a winner of the 2018 Cinnamon Press Pamphlet competition; her pamphlet The Love Life of Bus Shelters is due early 2019.
Frances Wilson
Frances Wilson was awarded 2nd Prize in the 1990 National Poetry Competition.
Patricia Pogson
Patricia Pogson won 2nd Prize in the 1989 National Poetry Competition
Alison Winch
Alison Winch is a lecturer in Media Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is author of Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood (Palgrave, 2013) and co-editor of Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature (Bloomsbury, 2013). Her debut pamphlet, Trouble, was published in 2016 by The Emma Press. Her forthcoming collection is out in […]
Maurice Riordan
Maurice Riordan is an Irish poet, translator and editor. His most recent collection, The Water Stealer (Faber, 2015), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; he was previously shortlisted for A Word from the Loki (1995). Floods (2000) was a Book of the Year in both the Sunday Times and Irish Times. The Holy Land […]
Safia Elhillo
Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), recipient of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a 2018 Arab American Book Award. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, she holds a BA from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and an MFA in poetry from […]
Anna Maria Carpi
Anna Maria Carpi is an Italian writer and translator. Her collected poems, E io che intanto parlo, was published by Marcos y Marcos in 2016.
William Palmer
Mathilde Jansen-Toft
Mathilde is a runner-up in the Under 19s category of the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2018.
Aidan Tulloch
Aidan is a runner-up in the Under 19s category of the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2018.
Ian Harker
Ian was a runner-up in the over 19 category in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2018.
Olga Dermott-Bond
Olga won the 19+ category in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2019, and was a runner-up in the in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2018.
Rachel Curzon
Rachel Curzon was the winner in the over 19 category in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2018.
Maud Mullan
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award in 2015.
Michael Hoffman
F.S. Bridger
Robert Brittain
Bryan Aspden
Nicky Rice
Alistair Ricketts
Nansŏrhŏn
Nansŏrhŏn – meaning “White Orchid” – is the penname of Hŏ Ch’ŏhŭi (1563–1589), a Korean noblewoman, writes Ian Haight. Writing in the sixteenth century, Nansŏrhŏn faced tremendous obstacles. Noblewomen in the time of Nansŏrhŏn were generally not given a classical education on a par with noblemen; it was socially unacceptable for them to paint, sing, […]
Kim Hyesoon
Kim Hyesoon is an award-winning South Korean poet. The most recent English translation of her work (by Don Mee Choi) is I’m OK, I’m Pig! (Bloodaxe, 2014).
Balfour Brown
Jacqueline A. Stewart
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett is a performance poet and fiction writer. He has written for various publications, including The Mechanics’ Institute Review 5, Tell Tales Vol. IV, Pulp Net and, most recently, Boys and Girls. He has written poetry in both English and Spanish. He’s a former London and UK Poetry Slam! Champion and his collection Selah was […]
Stephanie Themistocleous
Stephanie is commended in the W. S. Graham challenge on Young Poets Network as part of Graham’s centenary celebrations.
Ivy Xun
Ivy is commended in the W. S. Graham challenge on Young Poets Network as part of Graham’s centenary celebrations.
Liberty Hinze
Liberty is the second-prize winner in the Bletchley Park challenge on Young Poets Network and is commended in the Civilisation and Its Discontents challenge inspired by Freud’s work of the same name.
Meg Ozia Stockwell
Meg is commended in the Civilisation and Its Discontents challenge on Young Poets Network, inspired by Freud’s work of the same name.
Ellie Fullwood
Ellie is commended in the Civilisation and Its Discontents challenge on Young Poets Network, inspired by Freud’s work of the same name.
Olivia Sandhu
Olivia is commended in the Civilisation and Its Discontents challenge on Young Poets Network, inspired by Freud’s work of the same name.
Alice Hill-Woods
Alice is the third-prize winner in the Civilisation and Its Discontents challenge on Young Poets Network, inspired by Freud’s work of the same name.
Vidyan Ravinthiran
Vidyan Ravinthiran is an editor at Prac Crit and the author of Grun-tu-molani (Bloodaxe, 2014) and Elizabeth Bishop’s Prosaic (Bucknell UP, 2015). He teaches at the University of Birmingham.
Raymond Antrobus
Raymond Antrobus is a Hackney-born British Jamaican poet, educator, editor and curator of the Chill Pill event series. His pamphlet, To Sweeten Bitter (2017), is published by Out-Spoken Press and debut collection The Perseverance was the winner of the Ted Hughes Award in 2018. He is a Complete Works III fellow and one of the […]
Louis Bourne
Louis Bourne is a poet and Professor Emeritus of Spanish, Georgia College & State University. He has recently published translations of poems by Cubans Rafael Bordao, Felipe Lázaro, Juan Nicolás Padrón and Pío Serrano in Illuminations magazine, and will publish the first translation of Robert Bly’s poetry in Spanish in Madrid in autumn 2018.
Clara Janés
The award-winning poet Clara Janés was born in Barcelona and holds degrees from the Universities of Navarra and Paris. She has translated Czech and Middle Eastern poetry and is also a novelist, essayist, editor of the Mediterranean and Oriental Poetry Collection, and a member of the Spanish Royal Academy. Her book, Ψ o el jardín […]
Peter Gizzi
Peter Gizzi, born in 1959 in Alma, Michigan, is a poet, essayist, editor and teacher. He has taught at Brown University, Rhode Island, and The University of California, Santa Cruz. Since 2001, he has been a professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts Amherst. For several years, he was […]
Jenny Hamlett
Jenny Hamlett has an MA in Creative Writing; her second collection, Playing Alice, is published by IDP.
N.J. Hynes
N.J. Hynes has an MA (with distinction) in Creative and Life writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her collection The Department of Emotional Projections (2014) won the inaugural Live Canon first collection competition. She has a background in anthropology, journalism, art criticism and publishing, and lives and works in London.
Sue Davies
Sue Davies is former lecturer in English Literature. She writes poetry and short stories; her first poetry collection, Blue Water Café, was published by Oversteps in 2014. She is working on a second collection and a fictional memoir.
Ellora Sutton
Ellora Sutton lives in Hampshire, where she is studying towards an MA in Creative Writing with the Open University. She has been published in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, The Cardiff Review, Mookychick, and The Female Spectator, amongst others. She was commended in the 2019 Winchester Poetry Prize; won the 2019 Pre-Raphaelite Society poetry competition; and […]
Zara Shams
Zara is the first-prize winner in Ankita Saxena’s protest poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, remembering 100 years of the women’s vote in the UK.
Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson’s poem ‘Balotelli’ was commissioned as part of the Thinking Outside the Penalty Box project, in a partnership with The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network on a challenge celebrating extraordinary lives of African footballers in 2018. His commissioned poem, three other commissioned poems, the winners of the challenge and poems created in a workshop led by […]
Sugar J
Sugar J’s poem ‘Give Invisible’ was commissioned as part of the Thinking Outside the Penalty Box project, in a partnership with The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network on a challenge celebrating extraordinary lives of African footballers in 2018. His commissioned poem, three other commissioned poems, the winners of the challenge and poems created in a workshop led […]
Nick Makoha
Nick Makoha is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and a Fellow of The Complete Works in the UK. He won the 2015 Brunel African Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for 2017. In the same year he was also shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize. He also won the Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize 2016 for his manuscript Resurrection Man. He represented Uganda in […]
Em Power
Em is a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2017 and a top 15 winner in 2018, 2019 and 2020. She is also commended in the Timothy Corsellis Poetry Prize 2018 on Young Poets Network; commended in the meme challenge, written and judged by poet Rishi Dastidar, with a poem she wrote jointly with Elizabeth Thatcher; […]
Will Harris
Will Harris is a writer of mixed Anglo-Indonesian heritage, born and based in London. He has worked in schools, led workshops at the Southbank Centre, London, and teaches for The Poetry School. He co-edits 13 Pages and organises The Poetry Inquisition. He is an Assistant Editor at The Rialto and a fellow of The Complete […]
Natasha Moore
Natasha is the second-prize winner in the 19-25 age category in the End Hunger UK challenge on Young Poets Network.
Dipo Baruwa-Etti
Dipo is the first-prize winner in the 19-25 age category in the End Hunger UK challenge on Young Poets Network, and is commended in Ankita Saxena’s protest poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, remembering 100 years of the women’s vote in the UK.
Rohan Chakraborty
Rohan is the third-prize winner in the 16-18 age category in the End Hunger UK challenge on Young Poets Network.
Matt Sowerby
Matt is the first-prize winner in the 16-18 age category in the End Hunger UK challenge on Young Poets Network and a 2018 SLAMbassador.
Carol Chen
Carol is the third-prize winner in the 11-15 age category in the End Hunger UK challenge on Young Poets Network.
Meredith LeMaître
Meredith is the second-prize winner in the 11-15 age category in the End Hunger UK challenge on Young Poets Network, and is a commended Foyle Young Poet of 2017 and 2018. She wrote and judged August Challenge #2: Fairy Tale Poetry on YPN in 2020.
Sophie Thynne
Sophie is the first-prize winner in the 11-15 age category in the End Hunger UK challenge on Young Poets Network.
D.S.T.
A winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2010.
Tilly Goodwin
Tilly is highly commended in the Nearlyology challenge on Young Poets Network.
Felix Stokes
Felix is the first-prize winner in the Nearlyology challenge on Young Poets Network; he is also the first-prize winner in August challenge #3 2019 on meta-poetry, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Danique Bailey, and the third-prize winner of the W. S. Graham challenge as part of Graham’s centenary celebrations.
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a bilingual Irish poet whose books explore birth, death, desire, and domesticity. Awards for her writing include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Michael Hartnett Prize, and a Seamus Heaney Fellowship. She frequently participates in cross-disciplinary collaborations, fusing poetry with film, dance, music, and visual art. Recent/forthcoming commissions include work […]
Paul Talbot
Paul went hell-for-leather writing poems in his teens, and won a regional youth poetry competition, but then stopped. He has just started to write again in earnest during the last year or so. He has previously trained as a linguist, archaeologist, intelligence analyst, detective, and chef, and now works in public service. He is married, […]
Joseph Butler
Joseph Butler is a blacksmith and boatbuilder. More recently he trained as a nurse and currently cares for patients in an Oxfordshire hospice. He lives in a narrowboat on the River Thames.
Jane Slavin
Jane works as a communications officer for Plymouth City Council. She finds that poetic inspiration can come from anything, including Tom Daley parking outside her house, office diets, iPhones, the news. Her work has appeared in publications including Poetry24 and Shooter. She has performed at events in Devon and belongs to a Poetry School group. She […]
Robert Powell
Robert Powell was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, and now lives in York, UK. He has published two collections: Harvest of Light (Stone Flower, 2007), and All (Valley Press, 2015), as well as A Small Box of River (2016), a collaborative artist’s book and exhibition with artist Jake Attree. His most recent project is a short film […]
Matt Pitt
Matt Pitt is a poet and screenwriter. He has previously been published in Ambit and The London Magazine. His debut feature film, Greyhawk, was nominated for the Michael Powell award at the 2014 Edinburgh International Film Festival. He lives and works in Brighton.
Margot Myers
Margot Myers lives in Oxford; her poems and flashfiction have had some success in competitions. She has poems published in The Interpreter’s House and The Emma Press anthologies of Dance (2015), Urban Myths and Legends (2016), Aunts (2017), and British Festivals (forthcoming 2018).
Yvonne Reddick
Yvonne Reddick’s pamphlet Translating Mountains won the 2017 Mslexia Pamphlet Competition and is published by Seren. She won a Northern Writer’s Award in 2016 and was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2017. Her book Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Her ‘day job’ involves reading Seamus Heaney’s drafts and deciphering Ted Hughes’s terrible handwriting, for a […]
Momtaza Mehri
Momtaza Mehri is a poet and essayist. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Poetry London, BBC Radio 4, Buzzfeed, Poetry Society of America and Real Life Mag. She is a Complete Works Fellow and winner of the 2017 Outspoken Page Poetry Prize. Her chapbook suga lump prayer was published in 2017. She also edits Diaspora Drama, a digital […]
Dom Bury
Dom Bury lives in Devon where he runs workshops on nature, ecopoetry and the emotional impact of climate change. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Wales and Best British Poetry. He is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award and a Jerwood/Arvon Mentorship. He won first prize in Magma Poetry Competition and […]
Hazel Vimbainashe Kamuriwo
Hazel is a second-prize winner in the Thinking Outside the Penalty Box challenge on Young Poets Network.
Lydia Wei
Lydia is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019, and wrote and judged August challenge #1: Re-mixing History, Fiction and the Unexpected on Young Poets Network in 2020. She is the first-prize winner in the tree poetry challenge, the Thinking Outside the Penalty Box challenge and the 2018 […]
Theophilus Kwek
Theophilus Kwek was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2010 and has published four volumes of poetry: most recently The First Five Storms, which won the New Poets’ Prize in 2016. He served as President of the Oxford University Poetry Society, and is currently Editor of Oxford Poetry and Chief Executive Assistant at Asymptote, an […]
Inua Ellams
Born in Nigeria in 1984, Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright, performer, graphic artist and designer. He is an ambassador for the Ministry of Stories and has published four books of poetry: Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars, Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales, The Wire-Headed Heathen and #Afterhours, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New […]
Antony Owen
Antony Owen is from Coventry, England, with an interest in exploring the consequences of conflicts which he considers are largely overlooked. Author of five poetry collections, his The Nagasaki Elder (V.Press, 2017) was inspired by atomic bomb survivors’ accounts and growing up in Cold War Britain at the peak of nuclear proliferation. His poems have […]
Greta Stoddart
Greta Stoddart was born in Oxfordshire in 1966. Her first collection At Home in the Dark (Anvil) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 2002. Her second book, Salvation Jane (Anvil), was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award 2008. She was also shortlisted for […]
Jake Street
Jake is commended in the Wish List challenge on Young Poets Network and the second-prize winner in the 2018 August challenge #4 on using the vernacular in poetry.
Cecilia Hornyak
Cecilia is commended in the Wish List challenge on Young Poets Network.
Michelle Yang
Michelle is commended in the Wish List challenge on Young Poets Network.
Laura Potts
Laura is commended in the Wish List challenge on Young Poets Network. She is commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award in 2012 and 2013.
Fiyinfoluwa Timothy Oladipo
Fiyinfoluwa Timothy Oladipo is a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2018, and appears on a Poetry Society podcast with fellow Foyle Young Poet Em Power and three Chicago Youth Poet Laureates, hosted by Rachel Long. He is also the third-prize winner in Ankita Saxena’s protest poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, remembering 100 years of the […]
Kyle Liang
Kyle is a second-prize winner in the Wish List challenge on Young Poets Network.

Nancy Campbell
Nancy Campbell is the current Canal Laureate. A writer who works across disciplines, from poetry and essays to publishing artist’s books, she grew up in the Scottish Borders and Northumberland and her work is informed by these landscapes and borderlines. A series of residencies with Arctic research institutions has resulted in projects responding to cultural and climate […]
Holly Pester
Holly Pester is a poet living mostly in London. She is working on her first full collection on bogs and abortivity and is Lecturer in Poetry and Performance at University of Essex.
Emma Reilly
Emma is highly commended in the Young Poets Network Namedropping challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield.
Annika Cleland-Hura
Annika is the second-prize winner of the W. S. Graham challenge on Young Poets Network as part of Graham’s centenary celebrations, and is highly commended in the Young Poets Network Namedropping challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield.
Sarahana Chemjong
Sarahana is highly commended in the Young Poets Network Namedropping challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield.
Olivia Todd
Olivia is the first-prize winner in the 2019 August challenge #2 on how-to poetry, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Fiyinfoluwa Oladipo. She is also the third-prize winner in the 2019 poetry translation challenge with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard; the Mary Wollstonecraft challenge on Young Poets Network, written and judged by […]
Luca Demetriadi
Luca is highly commended in the Young Poets Network Namedropping challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield.
Weina Jin
Weina is a runner-up in the Young Poets Network Namedropping challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield.
Xanthe McElroy
Xanthe is a third-prize winner in the Young Poets Network Namedropping challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield.
Katie Kirkpatrick
Katie is a second-prize winner in the Young Poets Network Namedropping challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield, and commended in the Golden Shovel challenge on Young Poets Network, judged by Peter Kahn. She is also a second-prize winner in the Ted Hughes Young Poets Award 2016 and a Specially Commended poet in the Young […]
Chloe Urquhart
Chloe’s reading of ‘Timothy Winters’ by Charles Causley was selected to be screened at The Sounding Heart event at The Poetry Café on 31 January 2018, celebrating Charles Causley’s centenary, as part of the Timothy Winters challenge on Young Poets Network.
Marlene Agius
Marlene is a winner in the Timothy Winters challenge on Young Poets Network.
Lucas Sheridan-Warburton
Lucas is a winner in the Timothy Winters challenge on Young Poets Network.
Muhammad Amin
Muhammad Amin is a winner in the Timothy Winters challenge on Young Poets Network.
H.H.
A winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets in 1999 and 2000.
Lee Young-Ju
Lee Young-Ju’s books of poetry include 108th Man (Munhakdongne, 2005), My Dear Older Sister (Minumsa, 2010), and Cold Candies (Moonji, 2014). Her essay ‘How I Wanted to Escape’ was included in the anthology Because I Like You So (Gom, 2013).
O. Flote
O. Flote was born in southern Africa, as were his parents and grandparents. He currently lives in Tasmania.
Thoraya El-Rayyes
Thoraya El-Rayyes is a Palestinian-Canadian literary translator and political sociologist. Her translations of contemporary Arabic literature have received awards from the Modern Language Association and the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas. She lives in Amman, Jordan.
Jae Kim
Jae Kim lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and teaches fiction writing as a Third-Year Fellow at Washington University, where he recently finished his MFA. His stories have appeared or will appear in NOON, The Collagist and elsewhere.
Jang Su-Jin
Jang Su-jin was included in Moonji’s 12th Literature and Intelligence Selected Poets series. Her book of poems is scheduled for release from Moonji in 2017.
Hisham Bustani
Hisham Bustani is an award-winning poet and short-story writer from Jordan. His collections of short fiction include Of Love and Death (2008), The Monotonous Chaos of Existence (2010), and The Perception of Meaning (2012), which was awarded the prestigious Arabic Translation Award from the University of Arkansas in 2014. Acclaimed for his contemporary themes, style, […]
Joshua Persico
Joshua is a commended poet in the Riddle Me This Poetry Challenge on The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network.
Olivia Liu
Olivia is a commended poet in the Riddle Me This Poetry Challenge on The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network.
A.F. Harrold
A.F. Harrold is an English poet who writes for both kids and adults. His books for children include the poetry collection Things You Find In A Poet’s Beard (illustrated by Chris Riddell), the very funny Greta Zargo and the Death Robots from Outer Space (illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton), and the slightly spooky book The Imaginary […]
Jenny Hill
Jenny Hill’s first full collection is Voices of the First World War (Undead Tree, 2016). She lives in Whitby and also works as a singer specialising in Early Music and Folk.
Oliver Comins
Oliver Comins lives and works in west London. His publications include three Templar Poetry pamphlets, the most recent of which, Battling Against the Odds (2016), led to his appointment as National Golf Month Poet for 2017.
Duncan Chambers
Duncan Chambers is a university researcher living in York. He has been writing on and off since the 1980s and his poems have been published in various magazines.
Carla Scarano D’Antonio
Carla Scarano D’Antonio obtained her MA in Creative Writing in 2012 and is currently working on a PhD on Margaret Atwood’s work at the university of Reading. She lives in Surrey with her family.
Kathryn Welch
Kathryn is highly commended in SLAMbassadors 2017.
William Tracy-Youngs
William is highly commended in SLAMbassadors 2017.
Shannon Ryan
Shannon is highly commended in SLAMbassadors 2017.
Precious Ogunlowo
Precious is highly commended in SLAMbassadors 2017.
Shamiha Magezi
Shamiha is highly commended in SLAMbassadors 2017.
Tinuola Ibrahim
Tinuola is highly commended in SLAMbassadors 2017.
Elijah Hammond-Dallas
Elijah is highly commended in SLAMbassadors 2017.
Saffron Baldoza
Saffron is highly commended in SLAMbassadors 2017.
Honey Birch
Honey is the winner of the Cold Fire Award 2017, as part of the SLAMbassadors National Championships. The Cold Fire Award was set up in 2016 in memory of Thomas Crosbie (also known as PACE or Cold Fire) who was a SLAMbassadors winner in 2003.
Chelsea Stockham
Chelsea is a winner of SLAMbassadors 2017.
Charlotte Sonnex
Charlotte is a winner of SLAMbassadors 2017.
Eben Roddis
Eben is a winner of SLAMbassadors 2017.
Emmeline Armitage
Emmeline is a winner of SLAMbassadors 2017.
Arinola Adegbite
Arinola is a winner of SLAMbassadors 2017.
Mukahang Limbu
Mukahang was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2016 and 2017. He is also a winner of SLAMbassadors 2017.
Lyra Davies
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.
Suzanne Antelme
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Awards 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Ruby Evans
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.
Neave Scott
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.
Natalie Perman
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017 and commended in the 2018 Award, Natalie is also the first-prize winner in the Civilisation and Its Discontents challenge on Young Poets Network, inspired by Freud’s work of the same name; and the first-prize winner in the first Bloodaxe Archive challenge, The […]
Max Dixon
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.
Margot Armbruster
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.
Irina Petra Husti-Radulet
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.
Enshia Li
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017.
Kutloogh Qureshi
Kutloogh is a highly commended poet in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2017 on Young Poets Network.
Keirit Dosanjh
Keirit is a highly commended poet in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2017 on Young Poets Network.
Erin O’Malley
Erin is a highly commended poet in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2017 on Young Poets Network.
Sabine Holzman
Sabine is the 2nd prize winner in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2017 on Young Poets Network.
Freya Carter
Freya is the 1st prize winner in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2017 on Young Poets Network.
Ishion Hutchinson
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His first collection, Far District, came out in 2010 and received the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. His latest collection, House of Lords and Commons (Faber), was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award 2016. Other honours include the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award and […]
Aria Aber
Aria Aber was born to Afghan parents in Germany, and now lives and writes in New York, USA.
Hugh Ryan
Hugh is a highly commended poet in the Young Poets Network 2017 August challenge #4 on concrete poetry.
Evie Johnson
Evie is a highly commended poet in the Young Poets Network 2017 August challenge #4 on concrete poetry.
Evelyn King
Evelyn is a highly commended poet in the Young Poets Network 2017 August challenge #4 on concrete poetry.
Kai Beaumont
Kai is the third-prize-winner in the Young Poets Network 2017 August challenge #4 on concrete poetry.
Taylor Fang
Taylor is the second-prize-winner in the Young Poets Network 2017 August challenge #4 on concrete poetry.
Jeremy Hsiao
Jeremy is the first-prize-winner in the Young Poets Network 2017 August challenge #4 on concrete poetry and commended in the 2018 August challenge #4 on using the vernacular in poetry.
Zuleikha Sayani
Zuleikha is a highly commended poet in the Young Poets Network 2017 August challenge #2, themed around place.
Lovena Nawoor
Lovena is highly commended in the Young Poets Network 2017 August challenge #2, themed around place.
Maya Miro Johnson
Maya is a first-prize-winner in the Young Poets Network 2017 August challenge #2, themed around place, and highly commended in the Nearlyology challenge on Young Poets Network.
Eilidh Adamson
Eilidh is highly commended in the Young Poets Network 2017 August challenge #1, themed around edgelands.
Astra Papachristodoulou
Astra Papachristodoulou is a poet and artist with focus in the experimental tradition. She is the author of several poetry pamphlets including Stargazing (Guillemot Press) and Blockplay (Hesterglock Press) and her work has been published at various magazines including Ambit Magazine, The Tangerine and Eborakon Journal. Astra won the Pebeo Mixed Media Art Prize in 2016, […]
Sue Johns
Sue Johns was born in Penzance and now lives in South London. She began writing and performing as a ‘punk poet’ and is veteran of the London circuit. She has performed at festivals and cabarets around the country as a solo performer and with Dodo Modern Poets, and also writes and performs theatrical monologues. Her […]
Patricia McCaw
Patricia McCaw was born and brought up in Northern Ireland but has lived in Edinburgh for many years. After a career in social work she completed a Masters in Creative Writing. Her poems have appeared in many journals and have won several prizes.
A.P. Fraser
A.P. Fraser has worked in a variety of occupations in the oil and chemical industries, and in the voluntary and public sector. He has always written poetry, but have never received formal training. He has been successful in several competitions and poetry publications.
Kaye Lee
Kaye Lee is an Australian who has lived in north London for many years with her Welsh husband. After working in health care for 40 years, firstly as a Therapy Radiographer and then as a nurse, she retired and now spends most of her time doing what she really loves – reading and writing poetry. […]
Wendy Klein
Widely published and winner of many prizes, Wendy Klein is a retired psychotherapist, born in New York and brought up in California. Since leaving the U.S. in 1964, she has lived in Sweden, France, Germany and England. Her writing has been influenced by early family upheaval resulting from her mother’s death, her nomadic years as […]
Mary King
Mary King was a science teacher and started writing on retiring. She had a pamphlet published in 2016 by The Poetry Business and came second in Manchester Cathedral’s Poetry Competition judged by Jo Bell. She works with a poetry group, Keele Poets at Silverdale, lead by Caroline Hawkridge.
Sarah Barr
Sarah Barr lives in Dorset and has recently set up a new Poetry Society Stanza group in Wimborne which she hopes local poets will enjoy coming to. She writes poetry and fiction for adults and children and her work has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including the Bripdort Prize anthologies 2010 and 2016; […]
Bernie Cullen
Bernie Cullen is an artist and poet living and working in North Yorkshire. She studied Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam, and an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, both, as a mature student, after a varied career in science, as a sign language interpreter, bicycle mechanic and charity founder. Bernie’s work explores our […]
John Gohorry
John Gohorry was born Donald Smith in Coventry in 1943. He lectured in Further/Higher Education until retirement in 2006. He has published nine collections of poems, most recently The Age of Saturn (Shoestring 2015) and Impromptus for George Erdmann, with The Good Samaritan, a libretto for a Conjectural Abendmusik 1705 (Lapwing, 2015). His sequence Thirty […]
Sheila Schofield
Sheila Schofield wrote for and edited numerous publications throughout her career in the charity sector. She started writing poetry about 20 years ago and has contributed to several anthologies. She uses poetry extensively in her professional practice; training teachers in creative learning. On moving to Treignac in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Sheila became co-founder of Limousin Laureates […]

Mark Fiddes
Mark Fiddes’s first collection The Rainbow Factory was published by Templar in 2016 following the success of his award-winning pamphlet The Chelsea Flower Show Massacre (Templar, 2015). He was recently awarded third place in the National Poetry Competition. He has also won the Ruskin Prize and was runner-up in the Bridport Prize. His work has […]

Konstandinos Mahoney
Konstandinos Mahoney is a Greek, English-Irish Londoner who’s lived abroad more than at home. He’s both poet and playwright. His plays have been staged in London and Hong Kong and broadcast on the BBC and worldwide. He is rep for The Poetry Society’s Barnes and Chiswick Stanza, teaches Creative Writing at Hong Kong University and […]
Ben Read
A winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2015.
Isabel White
Isabel was one of the runners-up in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2017.
Emily Hana
Emily was commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016. Emily was also commended in the meme challenge, written and judged by poet Rishi Dastidar, on Young Poets Network, and the W. S. Graham challenge as part of Graham’s centenary celebrations; she is also a winner in the Winter Poems challenge. She is the […]
Cia Mangat
Cia is a top 15 winner in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019, as well as a top 15 winner in 2017 and 2018, and was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2016. She is also a commended poet in the meme challenge, written and judged by poet Rishi Dastidar, on Young […]
John Ashbery
John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, on 28 July 1927. He earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and went to France as a Fulbright Scholar in 1955, living there for much of the next decade. His most recent book of poetry was Commotion of the Birds (2016). Other collections include Breezeway (2015), Quick […]
Ashley Arinze-Osimen
Ashley is a commended poet in the Melting Ice challenge 2017 on Young Poets Network.
Meg Shearer
Meg is a commended poet in the Melting Ice challenge 2017 on Young Poets Network.
Abby Meyer
Abby is the 1st prize-winner in the Young Poets Network I Am the Universe challenge, the 2nd prize-winner in the Nearlyology challenge and a runner-up in the Namedropping challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield. She is also a commended poet in the Melting Ice challenge 2017, and the 3rd prize-winner in the 2017 August challenge #2, themed around place, on Young Poets Network.
Maia Reedy
Maia is a commended poet in the Melting Ice challenge 2017 on Young Poets Network.
Ella Nowicki
Ella is a commended poet in the Melting Ice challenge 2017 on Young Poets Network.
Joyce Zhou
Joyce is the first prize winner in the Melting Ice challenge 2017 on Young Poets Network.

Isaac Rosenberg
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) was born in Bristol, and was the son of Russian immigrants who settled in London’s Jewish ghetto. He published two pamphlets of poetry at his own expense after studying art at Birkbeck College and the Slade School: Night and Day in 1912, and Youth in 1915. He enlisted in the Bantam Battalion of 12 Suffolk Regiment […]
Dai Weina
Dai Weina 戴潍娜 is a poet, novelist and playwright based in Beijing. Liang Yujing’s translations of her poems have been published in The Poetry Review, Vol 107, No. 2, Summer 2017.
Laura Foley
Laura Foley is the author of six poetry collections, including Joy Street, Syringa and Night Ringing. Her poem ‘Gratitude List’ won the Common Good Books poetry competition, judged by Garrison Keillor; ‘Nine Ways of Looking at Light’ won the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest, judged by Marge Piercy. She is a palliative care volunteer and […]
Susan E. Holland
Susan E. Holland was born Stoke-on-Trent in 1952, and grew up in Hawick in the Scottish Borders. She lived in London for thirty years, and now lives in Kintyre, Argyll. She has been awarded prizes for both her poetry and fiction; she was a prizewinner in the 2015 Troubadour competition. She has also been longlisted […]
Julie-ann Rowell
Julie-ann Rowell’s first pamphlet collection, Convergence, published by Brodie Press, won a Poetry Book Society Award. Her first full collection, Letters North (also Brodie Press), was nominated for the Inaugural Michael Murphy Poetry Prize for Best First Collection in 2011. Her many awards include first prize in the Frogmore Poetry Competition and The New Writer’s […]
Kit Fan
Kit Fan’s first collection was Paper Scissors Stone (Hong Kong University Press, 2011). His second, As Slow As Possible (Arc, 2018), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Diamond Hill, his debut novel, will be published in 2021
Elaine Feeney
Elaine Feeney is an Irish poet. Her collections Where’s Katie? (2010), The Radio was Gospel (2014) and Rise (2017) are published by Salmon. Her chapbook, Indiscipline, appeared from Maverick Press in 2007. Feeney’s work has been translated into over a dozen languages and is widely published. In 2016, Liz Roche Company commissioned Feeney to write […]
Julian Stannard
Julian Stannard is Reader in English and Creative Writing at the University of Winchester. His most recent collection is What were you thinking? (CB Editions, 2016), earlier collections include Rina’s War (Peterloo Poets, 2001); The Red Zone (Peterloo Poets, 2007); The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli (Salmon, 2011) and The Street of Perfect […]
D.M. Aderibigbe
D.M. Aderibigbe is from Nigeria. He is the author of a chapbook, In Praise of Our Absent Father (Akashic, 2016). He has received numerous fellowships and honours from Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown, James Merrill House, OMI International Arts Center, Ucross Foundation, Jentel Foundation and Boston University, where he received his MFA in Creative Writing […]
Allis Hamilton
Allis Hamilton lives in Australian bushland; her poems live in anthologies and journals in Australia and Ireland.
Wayne Holloway-Smith
Wayne Holloway-Smith received his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from Brunel University on 2015. He is the author of a pocketbook, Beloved, in case you’ve been wondering (Donut, 2011), and a full-length collection, Alarum (Bloodaxe, 2017). His pamphlet, I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE WENDING, was published by Test Centre in 2018. He was the […]
Lily Smart
Lily is the 3rd prize winner in the 16-18 age category in the Turn Up the Volume challenge on Young Poets Network.
Oakley Flanagan
Oakley is the 2nd prize winner in the 16-18 age category in the Turn Up the Volume challenge on Young Poets Network.
Evan Burgess
Evan is the 3rd prize winner in the 11-15 age category in the Turn Up the Volume challenge on Young Poets Network.
Mary Webster
Mary is the 2nd prize winner in the 11-15 age category in the Turn Up the Volume challenge on Young Poets Network.
Nadia Lines
Nadia is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019. She is the first-prize winner in the 11-15 age category in the Turn Up the Volume challenge on Young Poets Network, and the first-prize winner in the 2019 poetry translation challenge with Modern Poetry in Translation, judged by Clare Pollard. […]
Jacob Wright
Jacob is highly commended in the I Am the Universe challenge on Young Poets Network.
Katherine Liu
Katherine is highly commended in the I Am the Universe challenge on Young Poets Network.
Hero Bain
Hero is highly commended in the I Am the Universe challenge on Young Poets Network.
Natalie Thomas
Natalie is the 3rd prize-winner in the I Am the Universe challenge on Young Poets Network.
James Tierney
James is the 2nd prize-winner in the I Am the Universe challenge on Young Poets Network.
Lucy Tunstall
Lucy Tunstall’s first collection is The Republic of the Husband (Carcanet, 2014).
Eleanor Hooker
Eleanor Hooker has an MPhil (Distinction) in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin. Her debut poetry collection, The Shadow Owner’s Companion (Dedalus), was shortlisted for the Strong/Shine Award for Best First Irish Collection from 2012. Her second, A Tug of Blue (Dedalus), was published in 2016, and her third is due in 2021. Her poems […]
Natalie Whittaker
Natalie Whittaker’s debut pamphlet Shadow Dogs is recently published by ignition press. Her poems have also appeared in magazines including Poetry News and Southbank Poetry. In 2016 she was commended in the Brittle Star competition and the Plough Poetry Prize. She has also been shortlisted for the Frogmore Prize and the Bridport Prize.
Marina Sanchez
Marina Sanchez lives in North London and works in a local secondary school. Her poems and translations have been widely published in literary journals and international anthologies. She has been a finalist (2009), shortlisted twice (2010) and longlisted (2011) in the Cinnamon Press Writing Awards Poetry Collection competitions. Her pamphlet, Dragon Child (Acumen, 2015), was […]

Sam Harvey
Sam Harvey was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana and is currently finishing up his last semester at Indiana University. While post-collegiate life presents itself as generally hazy, he will hopefully pursue an MFA in poetry from a school with beautiful buildings. Among his most notable accolades are a ‘D’ grade in high school Creative […]

Peter Wallis
Peter Wallis is the author of Articles of Twinship (Bare Fiction, 2016), the Submissions Editor of the UK charity Poems in the Waiting Room, and was shortlisted in the National Poetry Competition 2016.

Patrick James Errington
Patrick James Errington is a poet and translator from the prairies of Alberta, Canada. Winner of The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2016, his poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best New Poets 2016, The Iowa Review, American Literary Review, West Branch, Cider Press Review, Copper Nickel, Diagram, The Adroit Journal, and Horsethief. […]

Marc Brightside
Marc Brightside is an author of poetry and realist fiction for adults, who first discovered the joy of writing through academia, where he studied under the wing of Mark Rutter and Julian Stannard. Since his first publication in 2015, Marc has conducted workshops in the University of Winchester, completed his Master’s Degree and co-edited the […]

Holly Singlehurst
Holly Singlehurst lives and works in Rutland, England’s smallest county. She has recently graduated from Birmingham University with a Master’s in Creative Writing, having studied Music and English Literature for her Undergraduate Degree. Alongside her academic studies, she spent most of her time writing poetry and performing in various choirs and operas.

Caleb Parkin
Caleb Parkin is a freelance poet, performer, facilitator, educator and filmmaker, based in Bristol. He previously worked in TV, radio & print media, and is currently studying for an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes. His work has appeared in online and print journals, planetaria, schools, museums, computer shops, wildlife events, festivals and beyond. […]

Stephen Sexton
Stephen Sexton lives in Belfast where he is studying at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. Poems have appeared in Granta, Poetry Ireland, Poetry London, and Best British Poetry 2015. His pamphlet, Oils, published by The Emma Press in 2014 was the Poetry Book Society’s Winter Pamphlet Choice. He was the recipient of an ACES […]
Patrick Cotter
Patrick Cotter’s publications includes several chapbooks, the verse novella The Misogynist’s Blue Nightmare (Raven Arts Press, 1990) and the full collections, Perplexed Skin (Arlen House 2008) and Making Music (Three Spires Press 2009). No One Knows, a bilingual selection, was published in Macedonia in 2014. His work has been published in London Review of Books, […]
Zhou Zan
Zhou Zan 周瓒 (also known as Zhou Yaqin) is a leading Chinese poet, translator, playwright and critic. Jennifer Wong, who translated her poems in the Spring 2017 issue of The Poetry Review, is the author of Goldfish (Chameleon Press, 2013). She is currently completing a PhD on place and identity in contemporary Chinese diaspora poetry […]

Gillian Allnutt
Gillian Allnutt was born in London but spent half her childhood in Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1988 she returned to live in the North East. Before that, she read Philosophy and English at Cambridge, and then spent the next seventeen years living mostly in London. From 1983 to 1988 she was poetry editor of City […]

Mary Jean Chan
Mary Jean Chan (b. 1990) was born and raised in Hong Kong. She is the author of A Hurry of English (ignition, 2017), a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice, and Flèche (Faber, 2019 – forthcoming), her debut full-length collection, which is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She won second prize in the 2017 National Poetry […]
Rahmoan Williams
Rahmoan is a winner in the Short Poems challenge on Young Poets Network.
Charlotte Guterman
Charlotte is a winner in the Short Poems challenge on Young Poets Network.
Isabel Waters
Isabel is a winner in the Short Poems challenge on Young Poets Network.
Elliot Owen
Elliot is a winner in the Short Poems challenge on Young Poets Network.
Vivian Vasquez
Vivian is a winner in the Short Poems challenge on Young Poets Network.
Rebecca Oet
Rebecca is a winner in the Short Poems challenge on Young Poets Network.
Vriti Ranka
Vriti is a winner in the Short Poems challenge on Young Poets Network.
Janice Hahn
Janice is a winner in the Short Poems challenge on Young Poets Network.
Eira Murphy
Eira is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017 and a winner in the Short Poems challenge on Young Poets Network.

Will Eaves
Will Eaves is the author of four novels – including This Is Paradise (Picador, 2013) and, most recently, The Absent Therapist (CBe, 2014), which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize – and a collection of poetry, Sound Houses (Carcanet, 2011). He was Arts Editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1995 to 2011, and is currently Associate Professor in the […]

Salena Godden
Salena Godden is one of the UK’s foremost poets, regularly anthologised and headlining festivals nationally and internationally. A BBC regular, Salena Godden has written and presented several arts and music programmes – a film of her poem Titanic was aired as part of BBC poetry programme We Belong Here. A short-fiction Blue Cornflowers was shortlisted for the […]

Melissa Lee-Houghton
Melissa Lee-Houghton was born in 1982 in Wythenshawe, Manchester. Her first two collections were published by Penned in the Margins, A Body Made of You (2011) and Beautiful Girls (2013), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In 2014 Melissa was recognised as a Next Generation Poet. Her third book Sunshine (Penned in the Margins, […]

Harry Man
Harry Man was born in Aylesbury. His first pamphlet, Lift, was published by Tall Lighthouse in 2013. In 2014 he won the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award. His poetry has been translated into Swedish, Chinese, German, Slovak and Macedonian. He is a 2016 Hawthornden Fellow.

Caroline Smith
Caroline Smith was born in Ilford and grew up in Hertfordshire. She originally trained as a sculptor at Goldsmith’s College. Her first publication was a long narrative poem ‘Edith’ about a Lancashire-born woman who works as a nanny in Glasgow, but is haunted by a secret from her pre-war life. Smith’s first full collection, The […]
Beth Davies
Beth is a winner in the Winter Poems challenge on Young Poets Network, and highly commended in its 2017 August challenge #2, themed around place.
Anna Farley
Anna is a winner in the Winter Poems challenge on Young Poets Network.
James Wijesinghe
James is a winner in the Winter Poems challenge on Young Poets Network.
Emily Ingle
Emily is a winner in the Winter Poems challenge on Young Poets Network.
Josiah Mortimer
Josiah is a winner in the Winter Poems challenge on Young Poets Network.
Jacob Polley
Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle in 1975. He is the author of four acclaimed books of poems: The Brink (2003), Little Gods (2006), The Havocs (2012), which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and Jackself (2016), all published by Picador. Jackself was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize 2016. He teaches at Newcastle University and […]
Ramona Herdman
Ramona Herdman completed a BA and MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her poems have been published in Envoi, Staple, The Rialto, Thumbscrew, Reactions, Pretext and Egg Box Magazine. Her pamphlet will be published by HappenStance in 2017.
Mary Livingstone
Mary Livingstone is the current Fenland Poet Laureate and lives in Ely, where she writes poems, works as a sustainability consultant. She co-edits the magazine The Fenland Reed.
Rosie Levene
Rosie is a winner in the Great Fire poetry challenge on Young Poets Network
Emma White
Emma is a winner in the Great Fire poetry challenge on Young Poets Network
H Mosforth
This poet is a winner in the Great Fire poetry challenge on Young Poets Network.
William Thomas
William is a winner in the Great Fire poetry challenge on Young Poets Network
Jamie Hancock
Jamie is a 3rd prize winner in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2017 on Young Poets Network, and is highly commended in the I Am the Universe challenge. He is also a winner in the Great Fire poetry challenge and commended poet in the Melting Ice challenge 2017.
Andre Bagoo
Andre Bagoo’s most recent collection, The City of Dreadful Night, is published by Prote(s)xt. Previous collections include Burn, published by Shearsman, which was longlisted for the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and Pitch Lake, published by Peepal Tree Press in 2017. He lives in Trinidad.
Fiona Benson
Fiona Benson won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2019 for Vertigo & Ghost (Cape). Her first collection Bright Travellers (Cape, 2014) won the 2015 Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for a First Full Collection and the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She lives in Devon with her husband and their two daughters.
Sujata Bhatt
Sujata Bhatt’s most recent books are Collected Poems (PBS Special Commendation, 2013) and Poppies in Translation (PBS Recommendation, 2015). She has received numerous awards including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and a Cholmondeley Award. In 2014 she was the first recipient of the Mexican International Poetry Prize, Premio Internacional de Poesía Nuevo Siglo de Oro 1914-2014. Her work has been […]
Tara Bergin
Tara Bergin is from Dublin. Her award winning collection of poems This is Yarrow was published by Carcanet in 2013, and new poems have recently appeared in Granta, Poetry (Chicago), PN Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and the TLS. She is a PBS Next Generation Poet. Tara wrote her MLitt on the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva (in […]
Kavita A. Jindal
Kavita A. Jindal is author of the poetry collection Raincheck Renewed, published by Chameleon Press. She also writes fiction, with her short story A Flash of Pepper winning the Vintage Books/Foyles Haruki Murakami prize in January 2012. Born in India, she lived and worked in Hong Kong before settling in the UK. She is Senior Editor of the Asia Literary Review.
Jei Degenhardt
Jei is the third-prize winner in the tree poetry challenge on Young Poets Network and is commended in the Who is Giselle? poetry challenge.
Annie Fan
Annie is second-prize winner in the 16-18 age category in the End Hunger UK challenge on Young Poets Network and highly commended in the Nearlyology challenge. They are also a runner-up in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2017 and the second prize winner in the Who is Giselle? poetry challenge on Young Poets Network.
Amber Garma
Amber is the 1st prize winner in the Who is Giselle? poetry challenge on Young Poets Network
Daniel Blokh
Daniel is a winner in the Short Poems challenge and a commended poet in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2016 on Young Poets Network
Bronwen Brenner
Bronwen is the 3rd prize winner in the 2016 Young Poets Network Timothy Corsellis Prize.
Elizabeth Gibson
Elizabeth is the 2nd prize winner in the 2016 Young Poets Network Timothy Corsellis Prize.
Aisha Siddique
Aisha is a commended poet in the 2016 Young Poets Network August Challenge #4.
Harry Parks
Harry is a winner in the 2016 Young Poets Network August Challenge #2.
Chris Matthews
Chris is a winner in the 2016 Young Poets Network August Challenge #2.
Meg Roseman
Meg is a commended poet in the 2016 Young Poets Network August Challenge #4.
Ben Vince
Ben is a winner in the Winter Poems challenge on Young Poets Network. He is also a commended poet in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2016 on Young Poets Network. He is also the 3rd prize winner in the 2016 Young Poets Network August Challenge #1.
Yasmin Inkersole
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
Steven Chung
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
Sophia Carney
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
Roberta Sher
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
Priya Bryant
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
Letitia Chan
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
Jennie Howitt
Jennie is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016 and is highly commended in the Young Poets Network Namedropping challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield. She is also commended in the 2019 August challenge #2 on how-to poetry, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Fiyinfoluwa Oladipo.
Finn Scarr de Haas van Dorsser
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
Eva Brand Whitehead
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
Emily Franklin
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
Emily Dee
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
Cyrus Larcombe-Moore
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
Allegra Mullan
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016.
Aisha Mango Borja
A top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016 and 2017.
Evdokia Charalampous
Evdokia Charalampous is a Cyprus-born poet. She recently completed her Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Portsmouth. Her poems have appeared in The Poetry Review and The London Magazine. Her reviews of films and exhibition reviews are also published online.
Pam Job
Pam Job is a member of Colchester Stanza group and has been writing poetry for about eight years. She has won awards in several national poetry competitions, winning the Suffolk Poetry prize, the Crabbe Memorial, for the second time this year. She helps run Poetry Wivenhoe, a monthly live poetry event and has co-edited four […]

T.L. Evans
T.L. Evans lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and three kids. He has been writing poems mainly on his phone on the train to and from London over the last year or so. Work to date addresses subjects such as how bad his commute is, hip hop, carrots and tea. He is a member of the Brixton Stanza and his aim is to get good enough […]
Penny Ouvry
Penny Ouvry lives in Amersham in Buckinghamshire. She completed a Lancaster University poetry MA in 2014 and has since been published in Artemis, Envoi and two FISH competition anthologies.
Bernadette Lynch
Bernadette has been writing poetry for the last 6 years and finds her work greatly enhanced by belonging to groups of fellow poets, including the recently-formed Brum Stanza. Her poetry draws on her experience of being half-English and half-Irish with all the richness and confusion that brings. She has twice won the international section of […]
Janet Lancaster
Janet Lancaster joined The Poetry Society on the recommendation of Roger McGough way back in the 90s, when on an Arvon course at Totleigh Barton. Janet originates from south Wales, but her home is in Rutland. She is a regular member of the South Leicestershire Stanza led by Charles Lauder. Her poem ‘7 Pregnant Silences’ […]
Susan Utting
Susan Utting has worked for many years as a poetry tutor, at Reading University and more recently as a freelance. Her poems have been widely published including in The Times, TLS, The Independent, Forward Book of Poetry, The Poetry Review and Poems on the Underground. Following Striptease (Smith/Doorstop) and Houses Without Walls (Two Rivers Press), […]

Pat Winslow
Pat Winslow worked for twelve years as an actor before leaving the theatre in 1987. She has published seven collections, most recently, Kissing Bones. Pat also works as a storyteller. She collaborated with composer Oliver Vibrans on her version of ‘The Coat’, a folk tale from the Caucasus, for the Royal College of Music last […]
Con Connell
Con Connell coordinates the Southampton Stanza of The Poetry Society. He is BBC award-winning, and erstwhile poet-in-residence at Southampton FC. He has co-edited three poetry collections, and his work has been heard on Radio 4 and BBC2. His poetry has been described as “…comic, punning…” by The Guardian, and “…somehow lacks the stirring quality of […]
Jennie Carr
Jennie Carr lives in West Oxfordshire but has lived in the south and north of England and for a time in New Zealand. Her poems have appeared in various journals and anthologies including Poetry News, The Cannon’s Mouth, Brittlestar, The Frogmore Papers, Oxford Poetry and The Book of Love and Loss (Belgrave Press 2014). She won […]
David Jones
David Jones is from Hampshire. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Chichester University and is a retired headteacher.
Jeff Skinner
Jeff Skinner is a retired librarian and trade union rep. His poems have featured in the Morning Star’ s ‘Well Versed’, The Stare’s Nest, Crowsfeet, Clear Poetry, Ground Poetry, The Open Mouse – and on a Guernsey bus. He was shortlisted in the 2015 Wells Poetry Competition. He reads with Exeter Poets Uncut.

Leah Larwood
Several of Leah’s short stories and poems have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and she has been longlisted in the National Poetry Competition; and published in Poetry News. She has an MA in (prose) Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London but crossed the waters to poetry before her daughter was born. She has almost […]
Fokkina McDonnell
Fokkina McDonnell is a psychotherapist in private practice. Her poems have been broadcast and published in magazines and anthologies.
Charlotte Chalkley
Charlotte is a winner in the 2016 Behind the Curtain poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the V&A Museum. She is also commended in the moon poetry challenge, judged by Nii Parkes.
Lorna Frankel
Lorna is the 2nd prize winner in the 2016 Young Poets Network August Challenge #1. She is also the 2nd prize winner in the 2016 August Challenge #4, and is a winner in the 2016 Behind the Curtain poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the V&A Museum.
Benedict Mulcare
Benedict is a winner in the Behind the Curtain poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the V&A Museum.
John Scrivens
John Scrivens was commended in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition adult category in 2016.
Jason Khan
Jason Khan was a runner-up in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2016, 12-18 category.
Katherine Spencer-Davies
Katherine Spencer-Davies was a runner-up in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2016, 12-18 category.
Kareem Parkins Brown
Badaboom Tee
Wilfred Owen
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dizraeli
Dizraeli is a hip-hop artist, singer and spoken word artist whose style encompasses many genres from rap to folk. He won the BBC Radio 4 Poetry Slam and the UK Slam Championships, and has released albums as a solo artist, with DJ DownLow, and with his band the Small Gods.

Joelle Taylor
Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright and author. A former UK slam champion, Joelle founded the national youth slam championships SLAMbassadors in 2001 with The Poetry Society. She has performed her poetry nationally and internationally and is the host of Out-Spoken, London’s premier poetry and music night. Her most recent collection Songs My Enemy […]

Benjamin Zephaniah
Dr Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah was born and raised in Birmingham, England. His poetry is strongly influenced by the music and poetry of Jamaica and what he calls ‘street politics’. His first real public performance was in church when he was 10 years old, and since then he has become one of Britain’s best known […]

Hollie McNish
Hollie McNish is a poet and spoken word artist and was UK Slam poetry champion in 2009. She has released two spoken word albums and a poetry collection. Films of her poems have repeatedly gone viral, some receiving over one million YouTube views in just over a week.
Marie Naughton
Andy Hickmott
Denise McSheehy
Alannah Taylor
Alannah is highly commended in the Ways to be Wilder Challenge with People Need Nature.
Franny Choi
Franny Choi is the author of Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019) and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody, 2014). She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams, and her work has been published in The Poetry Review, Poetry, The Journal, Southern Indiana Review, The Rumpus and others. She is a Project VOICE teaching […]
Tanya Kundu
Tanya is a commended poet in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2016 on Young Poets Network. She is also highly commended in the Young Poets Network Ways to be Wilder Poetry Challenge, in association with People Need Nature.
Amelien Fox
Amelien is highly commended in the Ways to be Wilder Poetry Challenge, in association with People Need Nature.
Rosa Walling-Wefelmeyer
Rosa is highly commended in the I Am the Universe challenge on Young Poets Network. She is also highly commended in the Ways to be Wilder Poetry Challenge, in association with People Need Nature.
Francesca Weekes
Francesca is a first-prize winner in the 2017 August challenge #1, themed around edgelands, and a winner in the 2016 Young Poets Network August Challenge #2. She is also a runner-up in the Young Poets Network Namedropping challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield, and highly commended in the Ways to be Wilder Poetry Challenge, in association with People […]
Eleanor Smith
Eleanor is a winner in the Ways to be Wilder Poetry Challenge, in association with People Need Nature.
Ella Standage
Ella is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017 and 2015, and a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2016. They are the first-prize winner of the Bletchley Park challenge on Young Poets Network, as well as the W. S. Graham challenge as part of Graham’s centenary celebrations. Ella is […]
Amy Wolstenholme
Amy is the first prize winner in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2016 and commended in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2019 on Young Poets Network. She is the first prize winner in August challenge #1 on photographic poetry, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Andrew Pettigrew in 2019; and the second prize winner in August challenge #3 […]
Rebecca Perry
Rebecca Perry’s pamphlet, little armoured (Seren, 2012), won the Poetry Wales Purple Moose prize and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Her first full collection, Beauty/Beauty (Bloodaxe, 2015), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Rebecca is co-editor of the […]
Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including Dunce (Wave Books, forthcoming 2019), My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), winner of […]
Victoria Kennefick
Victoria Kennefick won the Munster Literature Centre Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition and the Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet for White Whale (Southword Editions, 2015).
Claire Booker
Claire Booker is a Brighton-based poet and playwright. Her debut pamphlet Later There Will Be Postcards is out with Green Bottle Press. Her poems have appeared widely, including in Ambit, Magma, the Morning Star, the North, Rialto, the Spectator and on the side of a Guernsey bus. She has been a Poetry Society Members’ Poem […]
Kate Wise
Kate Wise has been published in various magazines in print and online, including Poems in Which, Ink Sweat and Tears, And Other Poems, Structo and Haverthorn. Her work appeared in Emma Press anthologies in 2015, and will be in a further one in 2016. She is a solicitor, just about manages two children under five, […]

Rachel Piercey
Rachel Piercey is a poet, editor and poetry teacher. She studied English Literature at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where she won the Newdigate Prize in 2008. Her pamphlets, The Flower and the Plough (2013) and Rivers Wanted (2014), are published by the Emma Press. Her poems have appeared in various journals and magazines including The […]

Vera Brittain
Vera Mary Brittain (1893 – 1970) was an English nurse, writer, feminist and pacifist. Her best-selling memoir Testament of Youth was published in 1933, and recounted her harrowing experiences during the First World War, including the loss of her brother Edward in 1918. A quotation from her poem ‘To My Brother’ featured on a commemorative stamp […]

Jen Hadfield
Jen Hadfield has published three collections of poetry. Her first,Almanacs, won an Eric Gregory Award, and her second, Nigh-No-Place, the 2008 T. S. Eliot Prize. She has family in Canada and England and lives in Shetland. Her third collection, Byssus, was published by Picador in 2014.
Mariano Peyrou
Mariano Peyrou (1971) is a Spanish poet, novelist, musician and lawyer in Social Anthropology. His work has been widely published in Spanish.
Filipa Leal
Filipa Leal was born in Porto and studied journalism at the University of Westminster in London. She went on to do a MA in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at the University of Porto and has since worked as a journalist in radio, newspapers and television and organised a series of literary readings and events in […]
Antonella Anedda
Antonella Anedda is an Italian poet who works as a lecturer in linguistics and as a translator from English French and Latin into Italian. Among the authors she has translated into Italian are Ovid, St John Perse, Philippe Jaccottet and Sylvia Plath. As well as publishing several award-winning poetry collections of her own, she has also published […]
Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011. Born in Stockholm, he was Scandinavia’s best-known and most influential contemporary poet. His books sell thousands of copies in Sweden, and his work has been translated into over 50 languages, with substantial or complete editions of his work published in over 20 languages. The latest […]
Pia Tafdrup
Pia Tafdrup is a Danish poet, writer and a member of The Danish Academy and The European Academy of Poetry. Her honours include: The Nordic Council’s Literature Prize, 1999; The Soeren Gyldendal Award, 2005; and The Swedish Academy’s Nordic Prize 2006. She has been widely translated into many languages, and her two latest collections in English, translated by David […]
Kyriakos Charalambides
Kyriakos Charalambides was born in Akhna, in the Famagusta District of Cyprus. He studied history and archaeology at the University of Athens. He is the author of nine books of poetry. Three of them were awarded the First State Prize for Poetry (Cyprus). His book Tholos (Dome) was award the Athens Academy Prize (1989) and his collection […]

Arvis Viguls
Arvis Viguls is a Latvian poet, literary critic and translator from English, Spanish, Russian and Serbo-Croatian. His first poetry collection Istaba (Room, 2009) received Annual Prize of Latvian Writers Union for the best debut and Poetry Days Prize as the best poetry book of the year. After his second critically acclaimed collection 5:00 (2012) he is […]
Jay Hulme
Jay Hulme was a winner of the SLAMbassadors UK national youth slam in 2015, judged by Anthony Anaxagorou.
Damilare Haastrup
Damilare Haastrup was a winner of the SLAMbassadors UK national youth slam in 2015, judged by Anthony Anaxagorou.
Georgie Smith
Georgie Smith was a winner of the SLAMbassadors UK national youth slam in 2015, judged by Anthony Anaxagorou.
Ruth Awolola
Ruth Awolola was a winner of the SLAMbassadors UK national youth slam in 2015, judged by Anthony Anaxagorou.
Issy Prior-Stevens
Issy Prior-Stevens was a winner of the SLAMbassadors UK national youth slam in 2015, judged by Anthony Anaxagorou.
Abi Cook
Abi Cook was a winner of the SLAMbassadors UK national youth slam in 2015, judged by Anthony Anaxagorou.

Esther Morgan
Esther Morgan was born in Kidderminster , Worcestershire in 1970. Since completing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in the 90s, she has published three collections of poetry, all with Bloodaxe. Her first, Beyond Calling Distance (2001) won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the […]

Moniza Alvi
Moniza Alvi was born in Pakistan and grew up in Hertfordshire. After working for many years as a schoolteacher in London, she is now a freelance writer and tutor living in Wymondham, Norfolk. Her first collection The Country at My Shoulder (Oxford University Press, 1993) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Whitbread poetry prizes […]

Jack Underwood
Jack Underwood is author of Happiness (Faber, 2015) and Solo for Mascha Voice/Tenuous Rooms (Test Centre, 2018). He is a lecturer in creative writing at Goldsmiths College. He was a judge for the National Poetry Competition 2016.
Timothy Corsellis
Keith Douglas
Keith Douglas was 24 when he was killed during the invasion of Normandy, in 1944. His poems describe with difficult-to-read precision the actions required of a modern soldier, forcing the reader to face the realities of war without offering the moral release of great emotional distress. Douglas acknowledged openly that the First World War poets […]
Alun Lewis
Welsh poet Alun Lewis was a pacifist by nature, but events in Europe convinced him to enlist. He was troubled by his status as a soldier, and what it meant in terms of his character. His poems are sensitive and lyrical, dealing with loneliness, alienation, love and death. He was strongly influenced by First World […]
Sidney Keyes
Sidney Keyes was born in the same year as Philip Larkin, his contemporary at Oxford. At university, Keyes was the editor of Eight Oxford Poets. Influenced by Yeats, Rilke and the French symbolists, Keyes’ subjective, metaphysical work showed great promise at a very young age. It is mature and reflective: “I am the man who […]
John Jarmain
John Jarmain was a poet and artillery officer in WWII, and spent his military career serving in the Western Desert in North Africa. He was killed by a fragment of mortar shell in 1944. John Jarmain is one of the poets who young poets can respond to in our annual Timothy Corsellis Prize. Find out how […]

Gillian Clarke
Born in Cardiff, Wales, Gillian Clarke is a poet, playwright, editor, translator (from Welsh) and President of Ty Newydd, the writers’ centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. She has taught creative writing to students of all ages and her poetry is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout Britain. She has […]
Emily Brown
Emily is commended in the Even It Up Poetry Challenge in the 11-14 age category.
Opefoluwa Sarah Adegbite
Opefoluwa Sarah is the overall winner in the 2016 Young Poets Network August Challenge #1. She is also a winner in the 2016 August Challenge #2, and is commended in the Young Poets Network Even It Up Poetry Challenge, in association with Oxfam, in the 11-14 age category.
Jasmine Thom
Jasmine is the winner of the Even It Up Poetry Challenge in the 11-14 age category.
Faiza Manzoor
Faiza is commended in the Even It Up Poetry Challenge in the 15-18 age category.
Hannah Hodgson
Hannah is the first prize winner in the Poetry and Political Language Challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the Orwell Youth Prize. She is the second prize winner in the second Bloodaxe Archive challenge, about White Space, and is commended in the fourth Bloodaxe Archive challenge, Take Note. She is also the second […]
Emily Raisin
Emily is commended in the Even It Up Poetry Challenge in the 19-25 age category.
Deborah Ashfield
Deborah is commended in the Even It Up Poetry Challenge in the 19-25 age category.
Mel Pettitt
Mel is the winner of the Even It Up Poetry Challenge in the 19-25 age category.
Miranda Peake
Miranda Peake is a London based poet and artist. Her poems have been published in Magma, The Rialto and Banshee, and in 2014 her poem ‘Florence’ won the Mslexia Poetry Competition. She works at the Royal Academy of Dance where she is Programme Manager for Step into Dance, a community dance programme for schools in […]
Jonathan Mayman
Jonathan Mayman is a retired Solicitor from Chester who has settled out of court for poetry.
David Wilson
A pamphlet of mountaineering poems by David Wilson is published by Smith/Doorstop in spring 2016.
Patrick Mackie
Patrick Mackie’s first collection, Excerpts From the Memoirs Of A Fool, was published by Carcanet in 2001. His new book, The Further Adventures Of The Lives Of The Saints, is published in spring 2016.

Carolyn Oxley
Carolyn Elizabeth Oxley lives in Longmont, Colorado in view of the Rocky Mountain foothills. She is a freelance writer for the Boulder Weekly and meets regularly with local poets at a historic area restaurant. She studied literature at Georgetown University and counts herself lucky to have attended poetry workshops at Aspen Summer Words and Lighthouse […]

David Hawkins
David Hawkins is a writer, journalist, editor and ecologist from Bristol. He grew up on the banks of the Severn Estuary, read English at New College, Oxford, then worked for several years in art history publishing, subsequently retraining as a botanist and habitat surveyor. Particular interests are the intersections of landscape and time and human […]

Eric Berlin
Eric Berlin is a freelance editor living near Syracuse, New York, where he teaches “Ear Training for Poets” and “The Poetics of Prayer” at the Downtown Writers’ Center. He received an MFA in Poetry from Syracuse University, an MFA in Sculpture from NY Academy of Art, and a BA in English from Harvard University. After […]

Howard Laughton
Howard Laughton lives in Canterbury, working as a teacher of English for Specific Purposes. He is also doing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent. In 2014 he was published in Butcher’s Dog, and, way back when, he won the best £100 ever for another competition poem.

Simon Jenner
Simon Jenner was born in Cuckfield in 1959. Failing everything except art, he learnt to fly instead; discovering poetry forestalled a career in airframes. He has been the director of Survivors’ Poetry since 2003, and has published several collections. He has books forthcoming from Perdika/Poet in the City and Agenda Editions.

Mara Adamitz Scrupe
Mara Adamitz Scrupe has created significant bodies of work in poetry, artists’ books, sculpture, installation, and social practice, for which she has won several awards and fellowships. Her work has been shortlisted or named finalist for several national and international literary awards in 2015.

Afra Kingdon
Afra Kingdon lives in Exmoor with her muses – dog, donkey and ravens in the wind. Mother of three, she works as a conservationist, children’s writer and illustrator and general farmhand. She is the author of, amongst others, The Best Job in the World! and Green makes White (Earth Nurse Press), a lyrical tale on […]
Amelia Doherty
Amelia is a first-prize winner in the Young Poets Network Namedropping challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield. She is also second-prize winner in the Young Poets Network 2017 August challenge #1, themed around edgelands, and a winner in the Great Fire poetry challenge. She is additionally a commended poet in the Greys Court Palimpsest Poetry Challenge, and the […]
Fashokun Adeoti
Fashokun is a commended poet in the Greys Court Palimpsest Poetry Challenge
Eleanor Flowerday
Eleanor was awarded third place in the Greys Court Palimpsest Poetry Challenge
Emily Garratt
Emily is commended in August challenge #1 2019: Photographic Poetry – Capture the Moment on Young Poets Network, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Andrew Pettigrew. Emily was also awarded second place in the Greys Court Palimpsest Poetry Challenge on Young Poets Network.
Marina McCready
Marina is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2017, and a commended poet in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016 and 2015. She is a 3rd prize winner in the Nearlyology challenge on Young Poets Network and is highly commended in the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2017; she is […]

W.N. Herbert
W.N. Herbert was born in Dundee, and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he published his DPhil thesis (To Circumjack MacDiarmid, OUP, 1992). He has published seven volumes of poetry and four pamphlets, and he is widely anthologised. He has published broadly in the field of Creative Writing, and is a regular reviewer of contemporary poetry. His […]
Freya Upton
Freya is a commended poet in the secondary category of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition.
Nirvana Yarger
Nirvana is a commended poet in the 2016 Young Poets Network August Challenge #1. She is also commended in the secondary category of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition on Young Poets Network.
Matilda Houston-Brown
Matilda is a first-prize winner in the Wish List challenge on Young Poets Network and runner-up in the Namedropping challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield. She is also a commended poet in the secondary category of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition, and commended in the Timothy Corsellis Poetry Prize 2018 on Young Poets Network.
Barirah Ashfak
Barirah is a commended poet in the secondary category of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition.
Sam Williams
Sam is a commended poet in the secondary category of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition.
April Egan
April was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2020. She is the overall winner of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition in the secondary category, and is the first-prize winner of Gboyega Odubanjo’s People Need Nature challenge on Young Poets Network in 2020. April is commended in the Poetry and Political Language Challenge, in partnership with […]
Margaret Black
Margaret is a commended poet in the primary category of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition.
Roahn Mohindru
Roahn is a commended poet in the primary category of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition.
George Evans
George is a commended poet in the primary category of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition.
Charlie Lambert
Charlie is a commended poet in the primary category of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition.
Gilda Hanson
Gilda is a commended poet in the primary category of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition.
Monica Selzer
Monica is a commended poet in the primary category of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition.
Jake Talbot
Jake is the overall winner of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition in the primary category.

Kate Clanchy
Kate Clanchy has been working as a state school teacher since she was twenty, a writer since she was thirty, and as a broadcaster and writer for radio since she was forty. Now she is fifty, and We Are Writing a Poem about Home brings together all these strands of her work in a joyous […]

Elizabeth Burns
Elizabeth Burns was a Scottish poet who retained close connections to her Scottish roots when she moved to Lancaster with her family about 20 years ago. She published four full collections, most recently Held (Polygon, 2010). Her pamphlet The Shortest Days (Galdragon, 2008) won the inaugural Michael Marks Award for pamphlets. Elizabeth was always drawn […]

Chris Beckett
Chris Beckett worked in Tokyo in the 1980s, where he met the painter and sculptor, Isao Miura. His poems and translations (from Japanese, French and Amharic) have been published in MPT and Poetry London, also in anthologies, including Sidekick’s latest Birdbook. He won the Poetry London competition in 2001 and his second collection, Ethiopia Boy, […]

Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi is widely regarded as one of the leading African poets writing in Arabic. Famous since a teenager, he is admired for the lyric intensity of his poetry and for his principled opposition to Sudan’s dictatorship. His Collected Poems was published in 2010. A distinguished journalist, he was forced into exile in 2012 and […]
Michael Drayton
Eleanor Penny
Eleanor is a winner in the 2016 Behind the Curtain poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the V&A Museum. She is also the winner of the 2016 ‘Festive Feasts – Eve of St Agnes’ poetry challenge.
Carol Rumens
Carol Rumens is a poet, playwright and novelist. Her poetry collections include Hex (Bloodaxe, 2002),Blind Spots (Seren, 2008) and De Chirico’s Threads(Seren, 2010). Her next collection, Animal People, is due from Seren in 2016. She has received the Cholmondeley Award and the Prudence Farmer Prize, and was joint recipient of an Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. […]
Clive Eastwood
Clive Eastwood is Stanza rep for the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Stanza. He has one full collection, Fly In Red Wine which was published by the National Poetry Foundation.
Janet Dean
Janet Dean was born in Barnsley and now lives in York. She works as a coach, facilitator and consultant in the public and voluntary sectors, and had recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at York St John University. As a poet she has been published in print and online magazines and anthologies, and was […]
David Attwooll (1949-2016)
David Attwooll’s first full collection was The Sound Ladder (Two Rivers Press, 2015). His work appeared in several anthologies, and he was a winner of the 2013 Poetry Business pamphlet prize with Surfacing (smith/doorstop). Ground Work (Black Poplar, 2014) followed, illustrated by Andrew Walton. David worked in publishing and drummed in a street band. David […]
Claire Dyer
Claire Dyer is a novelist and poet from Reading, Berkshire. Her poetry collection, Eleven Rooms is published by Two Rivers Press. She is working on a further collection for publication in 2016. Her novels,The Moment and The Perfect Affair and her short story Falling for Gatsby are published by Quercus. She has an MA in […]
Charles Lauder Jr
Charles Lauder Jr was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. His poems have appeared internationally, and his pamphlet Bleeds was published in 2012. He is the Assistant Editor at The Interpreter’s House and he runs The Poetry Society’s South Leicestershire Stanza.
Marilyn Longstaff
Marilyn Longstaff lives in Darlington and is a member of Vane Women, a writing performing and publishing collective (www.vanewomen.co.uk). In 2003 she received a Northern Promise Award, and in 2005 completed her MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. In 2011 she was one of the three featured poets in New Writing North’s Read Regional […]
Marion Tracy
Marion Tracy lives in Brighton. She has an MA in English Literature and taught in Further Education Colleges. She has been writing her own poetry now for eight years and had a pamphlet Giant in the Doorway out with Happenstance in 2012.
Graham Burchell
Graham Burchell was born in Canterbury and now lives in South Devon. He has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. His third collection Kate was published in May 2015. He was the 2012 Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year, and is a 2013 Hawthornden Fellow. He is also chair of the Dartmoor […]
Caroline Price
Caroline Price is a violinist and teacher living in Kent; her most recent collection is Wishbone (Shoestring Press, 2008).
Miles Burrows
Miles Burrows was born in Leicester and studied Classics and Medicine at Oxford. His poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, PN Review, Times Literary Supplement and Ambit, and in the anthologies British Poetry since 1945 (Penguin) and Best British Poems of 2015 (Salt).
Victoria Gatehouse
Victoria Gatehouse is a poet and medical researcher. Her work has been published in many magazines including The North, Magma, The Rialto and Mslexia. Competition wins include Iklley, Otley and PENfro. Victoria’s pamphlet, The Mechanics of Love, published by smith|doorstop, is a Laureate’s Choice for 2019.
Isabel Bermudez
Isabel Bermudez was born in Colombia and grew up in London. Educated at King’s College Cambridge and Salford University, she has worked as a documentary film-maker and a schoolteacher. She lived and worked in television in Colombo, Sri Lanka 1993-1995 and in Bogota, Colombia 1998-2001. She is currently a peripatetic tutor of French, Spanish and […]
Victoria Grigg
Victoria Grigg teaches English in south London. Her poems have appeared in Magma and The Warwick Review.
Lydia Harris
Lydia Harris’s poems have been published in The North, The Rialto and Magma. Her first pamphlet, Glad not to be the Corpse, was published by Smiths Knoll in 2012.
Nairn Kennedy
Nairn Kennedy lives in Yorkshire, has been published in Ambit, and has twice been shortlisted in the Ilkley Literature Festival Poetry Competition.
Krystyna Milobedzka
Krystyna Milobedzka (b. 1932) is a Polish poet, and a scholar and author of children’s plays. She has published twelve collections of poetry.
Adélia Prado
Adélia Prado (b. 1935) is a Brazilian poet and teacher. She has published more than eight volumes of poetry.
Sarah Kirsch
Sarah Kirsch (1935-2013) was a German poet who lived and worked in East Germany, and then, after political persecution, the West. She published ten collections of poetry.
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was a German playwright, poet and theatre director.
Emily Reader
Emily is the winner of the British Library Animal Tales Challenge 2015
Xenia Prinz
Xenia Prinz is a commended poet in the British Library Animal Tales Challenge 2015
Lizzie Knell
Lizzie is a commended poet in the British Library Animal Tales Challenge 2015
Chong Kai Qing
Chong Kai Qing is a commended poet in the British Library Animal Tales Challenge 2015

Luke Kennard
Luke Kennard was The Poetry Society and Canal & River Trust’s Canal Laureate from 2016-7. He is the author of four collections of poetry and a novella called Holophin (Penned in the Margins, 2012). His first book, The Solex Brothers, won him an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2005. His second, The […]
Alan Buckley
Alan Buckley has contributed a poem to our Waterlines project.
Megan Watkins
Megan Watkins has contributed a poem to our Waterlines project.
Sarah Watkinson
Sarah Watkinson has contributed a poem to our Waterlines project.
Angus McCormick
Angus is a runner-up in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2015.
Georgina Menasche-Standen
Georgina is a runner-up in the 12-18 category of the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2015.
Loe
Loe is a winner in the August challenge to create poems in contrast.
Samah Akhtar
Samah is a winner in the 2015 August challenge to create poems in contrast.
Elian Knell
Elian is a winner August challenge to create a poem from a character.
Soyla Ise
Soyla is a winner in the 2015 August challenge to create a poem from a character.
Maia Sauer
Maia is a winner in the 2015 August challenge to create a poem from a character.
John Blackmore
John is the 3rd prize winner in the 19-25 age category in the Turn Up the Volume challenge on Young Poets Network. He is also the 3rd prize winner in the 2016 Young Poets Network August Challenge #3. He is also a winner in the Behind the Curtain poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the V&A […]
Katharina Dixon-Ward
Katharina is the runner-up in the 2015 Timothy Corsellis Prize.
Charlotte King-Davies
Charlotte is a commended poet in the 2015 Timothy Corsellis Prize.
Colette Spaul
Colette is a commended poet in the secondary category of the Agincourt 600 Poetry Competition. Colette is also a winner of the Christina Broom & the Suffragettes writing challenge.
Lucy Thynne
Lucy Thynne is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016, 2017 and 2018. She is also second-prize winner in the 2018 August challenge #1 on prose poetry on Young Poets Network and a winner in the 2016 Behind the Curtain poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with the […]
Sophie Wallace
Sophie is a winner in our Christina Broom and the Suffragettes writing challenge.
Rhiannon Williams
Rhiannon is a winner in our Christina Broom and the Suffragettes writing challenge and in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2015.
Lauren Maltas
Lauren is a winner in our Christina Broom and the Suffragettes writing challenge, run in association with the Musuem of London.
Jamie Seymour
Jamie is a runner-up of the mini competition Become a Literary Translator, run in collaboration with the British Council.
Nirankar Phull
Nirankar is a runner-up in the mini competition Become a Literary Translator, run in collaboration with the British Council.
Jenny Grimes
Jenny Grimes is a winner in the Postcard Poems Challenge 2011.
William Shakespeare
Ankita Sexton
Ankita Sexton is a winner of the Song Writing challenge on the Young Poets Network.
Madeleine Wynne
Madeleine Wynne was one of the runners up in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition in 2014. The poem was inspired by ‘Sea Slumber’ from Elgar’s Sea Pictures. As we help publicize the competition on Young Poets Network, we thought it would be lovely to post the winning poems here as well. Congratulations, Madeleine!
Zohar Mendzelevski-Steinberg
Zohar Mendzelevski-Steinberg is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Stars’ poetry challenge.
Zainab Ismail
Zainab Ismail is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Freud and the unconscious’ poetry challenge, and a commended poet in the Melting Ice challenge 2017 on Young Poets Network.
Yulia Titova
Yulia Titova is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Imagism’ poetry challenge.
Yongyu Chen
Yongyu Chen is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Cape Farewell Moving’ poetry challenge.
Yeo Kee Hwan
Yeo Kee Hwan is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Performance poem’ challenge.
Yemeya Lanlehin
Yemeya Lanlehin is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Why should anyone care?’ poetry challenge.
Vasiliki Skarlopoulou
Vasiliki Skarlopoulou is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Translation’ challenge.
Ursula Knights
Ursula Knights is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Stars’ poetry challenge.
Upasna Saha
Upasna Saha is a winner of a number of Young Poets Network poetry challenges including ‘Brush Strokes’ and ‘Why should anyone care?’.
Travis Yeh
Travis Yeh is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Imagism’ poetry challenge.
Tom Ayling
Tom Ayling is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘No Man’s Land’ poetry challenge.
Tina Mander
Tina Mander is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Dramatic monologue’ poetry challenge.
Sylvia Villa
Sylvia Villa is a winner of the Young Poets Network challenge to write a poem based on Byron’s The Corsair.
Suchetana Mukhopadhyay
Suchetana Mukhopadhyay is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Put on a mask’ challenge.
Stephi Stacey
Stephi Stacey is a winner of Young Poets Network poetry challenges including ‘Google search poem’ and ‘Poems go visiting’.
Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Cape Farewell Crossing the Border’ poetry challenge.
Sohini Basak
Sohini Basak is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘RSPB birds’ challenge.
Smriti Verma
Smriti Verma is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Freud and the unconscious’ poetry challenge.
Simone Eizagirre
Simone Eizagirre is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Minimalist’ challenge.
Shuin Jian
Shuin Jian is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Imagism’ poetry challenge.
Shannon Clemow
Shannon Clemow is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Bookshelf’ poetry challenge.
Sarah Goddard
Sarah Goddard is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Maths and science’ challenge.
Sam Coleman
Sam Coleman is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘RSPB birds’ challenge.
Sahana Kalyaan
Sahana Kalyaan is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Put on a mask’ challenge.
Saga Ringmar
Saga Ringmar is a winner of Young Poets Network poetry challenges including ‘Different Voices’ and ‘Translation’.
Saduni Wanniarachchi
Saduni Wanniarachchi is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Gothic’ challenge.
Sabrina Hogan
Sabrina Hogan is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Translation’ challenge.
Ruth Darlow
Ruth Darlow is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Why should anyone care?’ poetry challenge.
Ruby Mason
Ruby Mason is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Why should anyone care?’ and ‘Bookshelf’ poetry challenges.
Rose Swainston
Rose Swainston is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Trust’ challenge.
Rhiannon Shaw
Rhiannon Shaw is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Imagined lives’ poetry challenge.
Regan Kraaij
Regan Kraaij is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Automatic writing’ challenge.
Rebekah Musk
Rebekah Musk is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Future’ poetry challenge.
Raffi Pollitt
Raffi Pollitt is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Imagism’ poetry challenge.
Rae Leaver
Rae Leaver is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Dramatic monologue’ poetry challenge.
Rachel Martin
Rachel Martin is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Winter poems’ challenge.
Rachel Lewis
Rachel Lewis is a winner of Young Poets Network Dramatic Monologue, Cape Farewell, and Ways to be Wilder poetry challenges. She was also a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2009 and 2012.
Rachel Keeling
Rachel Keeling is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Performance poem’ challenge.
Rachel Glass
Rachel is the 1st prize winner in the 19-25 age category in the Turn Up the Volume challenge on Young Poets Network. She is also a winner of the Young Poets Network poetry challenges including ‘Hollywood remake‘ and ‘Performance‘.
Pratyusha Prakash
Pratyusha Prakash is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Translation’ and Cape Farewell ‘Fire and Ice’ challenges.
Poppy Garrett
Poppy Garrett is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Time machine’ challenge.
Pieta Mackle Bayley
Pieta Mackle Bayley is commended in the nonsense poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, in partnership with Little Angel Theatre, London. She is also a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Maths and science’ challenge.
Phoebe Thomson
Phoebe Thomson is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Edith Sitwell’ challenge.
paperwinter
paperwinter is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Edith Sitwell’ challenge.
Paluk Gupta
Paluk Gupta is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Maths and science’ challenge.
Orla Owen
Orla Owen is a winner of the Young Poets Network challenge with the Reading Agency.
Oriana Tang
Oriana Tang is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Trust’ challenge.
Seun Matiluko
Seun Matiluko is the first-prize winner in August challenge #4: The Spoken Word Challenge on Young Poets Network. She is also a winner in the Hollywood remake poetry challenge.
Inigo Laguda
Inigo Laguda is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Edith Sitwell’ challenge.
Olga Kolesnikova
Olga Kolesnikova is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Minimalist’ challenge.
Niamh Brown
Niamh Brown is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Automatic writing’ challenge.
Nele Petri
Nele Petri is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Sherlock Holmes’ poetry challenge.
Natasha Bailey
Natasha Bailey is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Dramatic monologue’ poetry challenge and others.
Nasim Luczaj
Nasim Luczaj is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Cape Farewell Moving’ challenge.
Nasim Asl
Nasim Asl is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Bookshelf’ poetry challenge.
Molly Pearson
Molly Pearson is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Future’ poetry challenge.
Miriam Connors
Miriam Connors is a winner of Young Poets Network writing challenges including ‘Minimalist’ and ‘Automatic writing’..
Melissa Thorne
Melissa Thorne is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Haiban’ challenge.
Megan Parker
Megan Parker is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Maths and science’ challenge.
Meg Burrows
Meg Burrows is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Automatic writing’ challenge.
Maya Little
Maya is the 1st prize winner in the 16-18 age category in the Turn Up the Volume challenge on Young Poets Network, and is highly commended in the 2017 August challenge #1, themed around edgelands. She is also a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Bookshelf’ poetry challenge.
Matthew Walpole
Matthew Walpole is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Time machine’ challenge.
Matilda Cormier-Stumpf
Matilda Cormier-Stumpf is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘U-boat’ poetry challenge.
Mary Dodd
Mary Dodd is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Dramatic monologue’ poetry challenge.
Martha Baldwin
Martha Baldwin is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Canal’ challenge.
Mariam Taha
Mariam Taha is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Time machine’ challenge.
Maria Ji
Maria Ji is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Minimalist’ challenge.
Maria Diss
Maria Diss is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Different Voices’ poetry challenge.
Maria Calinescu
Maria Calinescu is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘RSPB birds’ and ‘Translation’ challenges.
Madelaine Hanson
Madelaine Hanson is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Canal’ challenge.
Luka Philip
Luka Philip is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Gothic’ challenge.
Lucy Johnston
Lucy Johnston is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Gothic’ challenge.
Lucy Jessep
Lucy Jessep is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Gold’ challenge.
Lucy Arnold-Foster
Lucy Arnold-Foster is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘RSPB birds’ challenge.
Louise Watson
Louise Watson is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Shakespeare’s shoes’ and ‘Put a mask on’ challenge.
Loic Desplanques
Loic Desplanques is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Put on a mask’ challenge.
Liza Steinberg
Liza Steinberg is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Edith Sitwell’ challenge.
Lisa Santika Onggrid
Lisa Santika Onggrid is a winner of Young Poets Network poetry challenges including ‘Scoop’ and ‘Translation’ .
Lindsey Scott
Lindsey Scott is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Univocal’ poetry challenge.
Lindsay Emi
Lindsay Emi is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Poems on location’ challenge.
Linda Phan
Linda Phan is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Why should anyone care?’ poetry challenge.
Leo Mercer
Leo Mercer is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Minimalist’ challenge.
Lauren Norris
Lauren Norris is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Performance poem’ challenge.
Lauren Clare Malthas
Lauren Clare Malthas is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Censorship’ poetry challenge.
Kiran Bhandal
Kiran Bhandal is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Maths and science’ challenge.
Kerry Thomas
Kerry Thomas is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘No Man’s Land’ poetry challenge.
Kavae Loseby
Kavae Loseby is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Edith Sitwell’ challenge.
Katie Randall
Katie Randall is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Bookshelf’ poetry challenge.
Katie Beviss
Katie Beviss is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘No Man’s Land’ and ‘Poem on a postcard’ poetry challenges.
Julian Canlas
Julian Canlas is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Gold’ challenge.
Julia Whitehouse
Julia Whitehouse is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Shakespeare’s shoes’ challenge.
Julia Head
Julia Head is a winner of the Young Poets Network challenge with the Reading Agency.
Judith Howe
Judith Howe is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Sherlock Holmes’ poetry challenge.
Joshua Keeling
Joshua Keeling is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Minimalist’ challenge.
Joshua Kam
Joshua Kam is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Dramatic monologue’ poetry challenge.
Josh Keeling
Josh Keeling is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Scoop’ poetry challenge.
Jordan Tudor
Jordan Tudor is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Shakespeare’s shoes’ challenge.
Jonny Rodgers
Jonny Rodgers is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Stars’ poetry challenge.
Joe Fraser
Joe Fraser is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Poem on a postcard’ poetry challenge.
Jessica Matthews
Jessica Matthews is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Song writing’ poetry challenge.
Jessica Hilbert
Jessica Hilbert is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Translation’ challenge.
Jessica Cripps
Jessica Cripps is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Song writing’ poetry challenge.
Jess Steele
Jess Steele is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Gold’ challenge.
Jerrold Yam
Jerrold Yam is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Dawn’ challenge and is the runner-up in the British Library Animal Tales Challenge 2015
Jenny Grimes
Jenny Grimes is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Poem on a postcard’ poetry challenge.
James Nyame-Satterthwaite
James Nyame-Satterthwaite is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Maths and science’ challenge.
James Martin
James Martin is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Imagism’ poetry challenge.
Jade Cuttle
Jade Cuttle is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘No Man’s Land’ poetry challenge and the BBC Proms Poetry Competition. She won first prize in the Riddle Me This challenge and is the third-prize winner in the 19-25 age category in the End Hunger UK challenge on Young Poets Network. She was commended in the Foyle […]
Jacob Silkstone
Jacob Silkstone is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Translation’ challenge.
Jack Little
Jack Little is a participant in the Young Poets Network and a winner of the ‘Why should anyone care?’ poetry challenge.
Izabelle Chappell
Izabelle Chappell is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Gothic’ and ‘Sherlock Holmes’ challenges.
Isobel Sheene
Isobel Sheene is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Edith Sitwell’ and ‘Kennings’ challenges.
Isabel Yon
Isabel Yon is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Performance poem’ challenge.
Iris Pearson
Iris Pearson is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Dramatic monologue’ poetry challenge.
Imogen Wade
Imogen Wade is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Performance poem’ challenge.
Hilary Davis
Hilary Davis is a participant in the Young Poets Network.
Henry St Leger-Davey
Henry St Leger-Davey is a winner of Young Poets Network poetry challenges including ‘Imagism’ and ‘Kennings’.
Helen Zhou
Helen Zhou is a winner of a number of Young Poets Network poetry challenges, including ‘Like Starlings’ and ‘Why should anyone care?’.
Helen Bowell
Helen Bowell is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Univocal’ and ‘No Man’s Land’ poetry challenges.
Harriet Whitaker
Harriet Whitaker is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘RSPB birds’ challenge.
Harriet Street
Harriet Street is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Dawn’ challenge.
Hannah Pusey
Hannah Pusey is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Kennings’ poetry challenge.
Hannah Charlton
Hannah Charlton is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Why should anyone care?’ poetry challenge.
Guntaj Arora
Guntaj Arora is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Automatic writing’ challenge.
Gracie May Bawden
Gracie May Bawden is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Poem on a postcard’ poetry challenge.
Freya Wilson
Freya Wilson is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Dramatic monologue’ and ‘Song writing’ poetry challenges.
Freya Metcalfe
Freya Metcalfe is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Poems on location’ challenge.
Faye Lipson
Faye Lipson is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Poem on a postcard’ poetry challenge.
Esme Layton
Esme Layton is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Freud and the unconscious’ poetry challenge.
Emma Yeo
Emma Yeo is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Poem on a postcard’ poetry challenge
Emma Warren
Emma Warren is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Univocal’ and ‘Like Starlings’ poetry challenges.
Emma Summerfield
Emma Summerfield is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Performance poem’ challenge.
Emma Kemp
Emma Kemp is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Why should anyone care?’ poetry challenge.
Emily Reid
Emily Reid is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Performance poem’ challenge.
Emily Baldwin
Emily Baldwin is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Minimalist’ challenge.
Emerald Grimshaw
Emerald Grimshaw is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Performance poem’ challenge.
Eliana Benaim
Eliana Benaim is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Poems on location’ challenge.
Eleanor Watkins
Eleanor Watkins is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Future’ poetry challenge.
Doxa Zannou
Doxa Zannou is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Edith Sitwell’ challenge.
Dominic McGrath
Dominic McGrath is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Dramatic monologue’ poetry challenge.
Devawn Wilkinson
Devawn Wilkinson is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Dramatic monologue’ poetry challenge.
David Romero
David Romero is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Imagined lives’ poetry challenge.
Daniel Bond
Daniel Bond is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Cape Farewell Moving’ poetry challenge.
Dan Hodgkinson
Dan Hodgkinson is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘No Man’s Land’ poetry challenge.
Damayanti Chatterjee
Damayanti Chatterjee was a commended poet in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2015, and a winner of the SLAMbassadors national youth slam in 2015, judged by Anthony Anaxagorou. She was a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Poems on location’ challenge.
Crystal Grimshaw
Crystal Grimshaw is a winner of Young Poets Network challenges including ‘Automatic writing’ and ‘Shakespeare’s shoes’.
Conor Whelan
Conor Whelan is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Winter poems’ challenge.
Ciara Thompson
Ciara Thompson is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Put on a mask’ challenge.
Christie Suyanto
Christie Suyanto is a winner of Young Poets Network poetry challenges including ‘Kennings’ and ‘Poems go visiting’.
Catherine Nock
Catherine Nock is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Freud and the unconscious’ poetry challenge.
Catherine Hodgeson
Catherine Hodgeson is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘John Keats’ poetry challenge.
Caitlin Harte
Caitlin Harte is a winner of the Young Poets Network challenge with the Reading Agency.
Caitlan Hill
Caitlan Hill is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Put on a mask’ challenge.
Beth Jerrett
Beth Jerrett is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Imagism’ poetry challenge.
Beth Jellicoe
Beth Jellicoe is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘No Man’s Land’ poetry challenge
Benjamin Davies
Benjamin Davies is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Minimalist’ challenge.
Ben Vickers
Ben Vickers is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Gold’ challenge.
Basiratulann Shahid
Basiratulann Shahid is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Univocal’ poetry challenge.
Auriol Reddaway
Auriol Reddaway is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Put on a mask’ challenge.
Aoife O’Connor
Aoife O’Connor is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Trust’ challenge.
Anran Yu
Anran Yu is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Imagism’ poetry challenge.
A.B.
A.B. is a winner of Young Poets Network challenges ‘Palimpsest Poetry – the Greys Court Challenge’, ‘Automatic writing’, and ‘Shakespeare’s shoes’.
Anna Thomas
Anna is a winner of Young Poets Network poetry challenges including ‘Winter’ and ‘Canal’. She is also commended in the Carol Ann Duffy challenge on Young Poets Network, judged by Mari Hughes-Edwards, and celebrating Duffy’s legacy as Poet Laureate.
Anna Leader
Anna Leader is a winner of Young Poets Network poetry challenges including ‘Different Voices’ and ‘Poems go visiting’.
Anna Gray
Anna Gray is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Sherlock Holmes’ poetry challenge.
Ankita Saxena
Ankita Saxena was commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2010 and 2011, and is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Univocal’ and ‘Song writing’ poetry challenges.
Anika Aynul
Anika Aynul is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Put on a mask’ challenge.
Angelique Cridland
Angelique Cridland is a commended poet in the 2016 Young Poets Network August Challenge #1. She is also a winner of other Young Poets Network poetry challenges including ‘Censorship’ and ‘Time Machine’.
Andrés Vaamonde
Andrés Vaamonde is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Winter poems’ challenge.
Amy Dowler
Amy Dowler is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Why should anyone care?’ poetry challenge.
Amy Carter
Amy Carter is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Imagined lives’ poetry challenge.
Amelie Maurice-Jones
Amelie is highly commended in the I Am the Universe challenge on Young Poets Network, and a second-prize-winner in the Young Poets Network 2017 August challenge #2, themed around place. She is also commended in the Who is Giselle? poetry challenge, and a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Haiban’ challenge.
Amber Burbidge
Amber Burbidge is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Translation’ challenge.
Alister MacQuarrie
Alister MacQuarrie is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Univocal’, ‘Future’ and ‘Like Starlings’ poetry challenges.
Alison Graham
Alison Graham is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Freud and the unconscious’ poetry challenge.
Alishah Iqbal
Alishah Iqbal is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Edith Sitwell’ challenge.
Alice Cattley
Alice Cattley is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Automatic writing’ and ‘Translation’ challenges.
Alex Hawkins-Hooker
Alex Hawkins-Hooker is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Univocal’ poetry challenge.
Ailsa McDougall
Ailsa McDougall is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Canal’ challenge.
Ailsa Dixon
Ailsa Dixon is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Gold’ challenge.
Adya Manoj
Adya Manoj is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Maths and science’ challenge.
Adriana Pallero
Adriana Pallero is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Univocal’ poetry challenge.
Iona Mandal
Iona is commended in the Wish List challenge on Young Poets Network and a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Haibun’ and Reading Agency challenges. Iona is also commended in August challenge #4 on the poetics of interrogation, written and judged by Foyle Young Poet Kara Jackson in 2019.
Adam Possener
Adam Possener is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Edith Sitwell’ challenge.
Simon Barraclough
Simon Barraclough studied English at Nottingham University and has an MA in Critical Theory from Sussex University. He has taught for the Poetry School, Morley College and City Lit, London. His debut collection, Los Alamos Mon Amour (Salt, 2008) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Other publications include a pamphlet of […]
Alison Riley
Martin Zarrop
Ruth Wiggins
Simon Robinson
James Tate
James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on 8th December 1943. He was the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including Worshipful Company of Fletchers, which won the National Book Award. His Selected Poems, published 1991, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the William Carlos Williams award. He was a professor […]
Olivia McCannon
Olivia McCannon’s poetry collection Exactly My Own Length (Carcanet/Oxford Poets, 2011) was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and won the 2012 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. She read French/German at the Queen’s College, Oxford, and lived for eight years in Belleville, Paris. Her translations include Balzac’s Old Man Goriot (Penguin Classics, 2011), modern French poetry in Poetry of Place: Paris (Eland, […]
Clare Pollard
Clare Pollard is the editor of Modern Poetry in Translation. She has published five collections of poetry with Bloodaxe, the latest of which is Incarnation (2017). Her translation projects have included a new version of Ovid’s Heroines (2013), which she toured as a one-woman show with Jaybird Live Literature, and a co-translation of Asha Lul […]
Terence Jones
Terence Jones is a Careers Adviser with roots in Lancashire, living in London.
Frances Galleymore
Frances Galleymore was a poet, novelist, screenwriter, and longtime member of Highgate Poets. Her poems have been widely published in anthologies and magazines. As a screenwriter, she had over thirty drama productions to her name and worked with directors including Mike Newell. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio Four and published in […]
David Olsen
David Olsen’s first full collection, Unfolding Origami (2015), won the Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award. Past Imperfect (2019), his second collection, is also from Cinnamon Press. His third collection, After Hopper & Lange, is forthcoming from Oversteps Books in 2021. Chapbooks published in the US include Exit Wounds (2017), Sailing to Atlantis (2013), New World Elegies (2011), and Greatest Hits (2001). His […]
Ian Humphreys
Ian Humphreys lives in West Yorkshire. His debut poetry collection Zebra is with Nine Arches Press. His work is widely published in journals including The Poetry Review, The Rialto and Magma. Awards include first prize in the Hamish Canham Prize, and highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Zebra was nominated for the Portico […]
Padraig Regan
Padraig Regan lives in Belfast where he is currently studying for an MA at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens University. He is the author of two pamphlets, Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real (Emma Press, 2017) and Delicious (Lifeboat, 2016).
F.J. Williams
F.J. Williams was born in Liverpool in 1951 and studied English at Durham, with postgraduate work at Manchester and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. He was Director of the Bridge Arts Centre, Widnes, and held a NATE teaching fellowship at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He also lectured in English at University College Chester. He has won prizes […]
Laura Scott
Laura Scott is the winner of The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2015, awarded by The Poetry Society and The Poetry Review. Her poems have been widely published in magazines including The Poetry Review, Edinburgh Review, Magma, Rialto, Tate Etc and Envoi. Her pamphlet, What I Saw (Rialto, 2013), won the 2014 Michael Marks Award for a […]
Sara Peters
Sara Peters was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and was a 2010-2012 Stegner fellow at Stanford. She is the author of 1996 (House of Anansi, 2013) and the forthcoming I Become a Delight to My Enemies (Strange Light, 2019).
Maura Dooley
Maura Dooley is a freelance writer and lectures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She edited Making for Planet Alice: New Women Poets (1997) and The Honey Gatherers: A Book of Love Poems (2002) for Bloodaxe, and How Novelists Work (2000) for Seren. Her collections include Life Under Water (Bloodaxe, 2008) and Sound Barrier: Poems […]
Henry Israeli
In 2013 Henry Israeli was shortlisted for The Poetry Society’s Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation for his translation of poems in Haywire: New & Selected Poems by Luljeta Lleshanaku. Hear Luljeta Lleshanaku read some poems from the collection in English, and read ‘The Madwoman’s Roof’.
Toon Tellegen
Toon Tellegen was born in 1941 on one of the islands in the south-west of the Netherlands. He is one of the best-known Dutch writers, with a long list of awards to his name. In 2007 he received two major prizes for his entire oeuvre. He considers himself in the first place a poet and […]
Laurence Binyon
Laurence Binyon (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Too old to enlist in the First World War, he nonetheless volunteered at a British hospital for French soldiers. He was greatly moved by the opening of the Great War and the high number of casualties, as well as […]
Charles Sorley
Charles Hamilton Sorley was killed in action in October 1915 and his poetry was published posthumously in 1916. Some of his poetry was published in The Poetry Review in 1916, and a line from his poem ‘All the Hills and Vales Along’ was featured on a commemorative stamp in 2015, issued by Royal Mail. He […]
Roddy Lumsden
Roddy Lumsden (1966-2020) was a poet and tutor whose collections include Yeah Yeah Yeah (Bloodaxe, 1997), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for the Best First Collection, and The Book of Love (Bloodaxe, 2000), shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Terrific Melancholy was published by Bloodaxe in 2011, Not […]
John McCrae
Born in Canada, John McCrae (1872 – 1918) was a poet, doctor and artist. He was appointed as a field surgeon in the Canadian Field Artillery in 1914, treating wounded soldiers on the Western Front, and serving on the guns. Exhausted by the long years of the War, McCrae fell ill with pneumonia and meningitis […]
Pippa Little
Rob A. Mackenzie
Kate Sealey-Rahman
Carol Beadle
Marianne Burton
Marianne Burton’s pamphlet The Devil’s Cut was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Her collection She Inserts The Key (Seren) was shortlisted for the Forward First Collection Prize 2013. Her poetry has appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Poetry Ireland, the TLS, Independent, Guardian and Sunday Times, and been featured on Radio Four’s Poetry Please. She has […]
John Weston
Lynne Hjelmgaard
Mark Godley
Caroline Gilfillan
Mike Horwood
Brian Docherty
Brian Docherty was born in Glasgow in 1953. He is widely published in magazines and anthologies.
Alison Jesson
Gill McEvoy
Jill Tritton
Caroline Millar
Anna Bendix
Patric Cunnane
A.C. Bevan
Barry Trench
Jaina Hart
Sylvia Greenland
Frances Truscott
James Bell
Stephen Wilson
Delores Gauntlett
Meredith Andrea
Meredith was a winner of the Poetry News Members’ Poems Competition on the theme of ‘Windows’, judged by Sue Hubbard. She was also a winner of the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2017.
David Burns
Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke (1887 – 1915) was already a famous writer when he enlisted within weeks of the outbreak of the First World War. Serving with the Royal Naval Division, he died of blood poisoning from an infected mosquito bite while travelling to Gallipoli in April 1915. Once described as “the handsomest young man in England”, […]
Elvire Roberts
Gina Wilson
Gina Wilson is a poet and novelist for young adults and children, and has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Kurt Maschler Award, the Smarties Prize and the Bisto Book of the Year. Her pamphlet Scissors, Paper, Stone was published by HappenStance in 2010. Her second pamphlet, It Was and It Wasn’t, was published in […]
Kevin Patrick McCarthy
Some of Kevin Patrick McCarthy’s early poems were well-received many years ago, but he didn’t return to poetry until after the death of a friend in 2011. Since then, his poems have appeared in Common Ground Review, Written River, Steam Ticket, vox poetica, and other publications. He is also a dramatist, essayist, geologist, and fourth-generation […]
Tom Weir
Tom Weir was born in 1980. He has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and his poems have appeared in various journals. He was one of the poets featured in the 2012 anthology: Lung Jazz; Young British Poets for Oxfam and has been shortlisted for the Melita Hume prize. His pamphlet, […]
Paul Nemser
Paul Nemser’s book Taurus, which won the New American Poetry Prize, was published by New American Press in 2013. His chapbook of prose poems, Tales of the Tetragrammaton, was published by Mayapple Press in 2014. In the 1970’s he co-translated two books of Ukrainian poetry. Nemser’s poems have appeared widely in magazines such as AGNI, […]
Mark Pajak
Mark Pajak has written for The BBC, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, Poetry London, The North, The Rialto and Magma. He has received a Northern Writers’ Award, an Eric Gregory Award, an UNESCO international writing residency and has been awarded first place in The Bridport Prize. His pamphlet, Spitting Distance, was selected by Carol Ann Duffy […]
Jonathan Tel
Jonathan Tel is writing a book of poems relating to Berlin, and a book of linked stories set in contemporary China. His story, ‘The Shoe King of Shanghai’, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Award in 2014. He was commended in The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition 2014.
Jason Watts
Jason Watts studied English Literature and Language with Philosophy at Glasgow University. A number of his poems have appeared in magazines and been anthologised. His poem ‘Irene’ won the Plough Prize (short poem) in 2007, and ‘Mouse Skeleton’ was commended in the 2002 National Poetry Competition. The latter poem was also selected by Don Paterson […]
Beverley Nadin
Beverley Nadin lives in Sheffield and is working towards a PhD in creative writing at Newcastle University. Her poem ‘6 a.m.’ won second prize in the Poetry London competition 2014. Her poems have appeared in PN Review, The Rialto, Magma, and Stand, and in other magazines and anthologies. She was commended in The Poetry Society’s National […]
Eliot North
Eliot North is a doctor, medical educator and writer who lives and works in the North East of England. The poem ‘The Crab Man’ was written and submitted as part of her Creative Writing PostGrad Certificate completed at Newcastle University in 2014. She won the EuroStemCell Creative Non-Fiction Poetry competition in 2013, was commended for […]

Fran Lock
Fran Lock is a sometime itinerant dog whisperer and author of three poetry collections, Flatrock (Little Episodes, 2011) The Mystic and the Pig Thief (Salt, 2014), and Dogtooth (Out Spoken Press, 2017). Her work has most recently appeared in The Mechanics’ Institute Review, POETRY, The Poetry Review, The Rialto, and in Best British Poetry 2015. […]
Joanne Key
Joanne Key lives in Cheshire where she writes poetry and short fiction. She recently returned to university as a mature student to complete an MA in Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, Cheshire. She has previously been shortlisted for The Bridport Prize, Mslexia Poetry Competition and The Plough Poetry Prize, and her poems have appeared […]
Roger Philip Dennis
Roger Philip Dennis is an artist and tutor running painting workshops from his studio in Devon. He has enjoyed writing since appearing in his school magazine at the age of nine. He grew up in the New Forest, and went to St Andrews for an MA in Philosophy, where he co-founded, produced and illustrated the […]
James Watson
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 2000.
Madeline Price
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 2000.
J E M Naylor
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 2000.
Sian Mackay
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 2000.
Sian Hogan
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 2000.
Erin Halliday
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 2000.
Timothy Granville
Annie Freud
Annie Freud is the daughter of the painter, Lucian Freud. Her maternal grandfather was the sculptor, Sir Jacob Epstein, and her great-grandfather was Sigmund Freud. She grew up in London and graduated in English and European Literature at the University of Warwick. Her pamphlet, A Voids Officer Achieves the Tree Pose, was published by Donut Press […]
Lisa Clarkson
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 2000.
Amna Ahmed
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 2000.
Kerry Sayers & Natalie Hitchin
Winners of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1999.
Martin McGann
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1999 and 2000.
Lindsay Fursland
Judith Lal
S.M. Hillier
Barbara Cumbers
Alan Porter
Phuoc-Tan Diep
Sally Carr
Matthew Shoard
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1999.
Poppy Mitchell
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets 0f 1999.
Katie Dunn
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1999.
Adnan Chowdhury
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1999.
Joanna Batch
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1999.
Patricia Morgan
Jane Morley
Brenda Leckie
Emily Haworth-Booth
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1998.
Matthew Paskins
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1998.
Rosamund Joseph
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1998.
W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.
John Thake
John has been writing poetry for the last five years, but has been an avid reader for much longer. He lives in a small village in the Cambridgeshire fens with his wife and two teenage sons.
Hannah Griffiths
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1998.
Penny Buswell
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1998.
Elizabeth Manuel
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1998.
Thomas Yates
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1998 and 1999.
Shamima Begum
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1998 and 1999.
Margaret Haig
Kate Compston
John Elinger
John Elinger is an award-winning poet and the nom de plume of Sir Christopher Ball, sometime Warden of Keble College, Oxford. He was also the first chancellor of the University of Derby. He was knighted in 1987 for services to education, and lives in Oxford. With Katherine Shock he produced That Sweet City: Visions of […]
Janice Flynn
Anne Stewart
Anne Stewart was selected as one of the “Ten Hallam Poets” in 2005 and appeared in the anthology published by Mews Press (eds. Sean O’Brien, Steven Earnshaw and EA Markham). In 2008, she won the Bridport Prize for her sonnet, Still Water, Orange, Apple, Tea. Her first collection was The Janus Hour (Oversteps Books, 2010). […]

Andy Jackson
Andy Jackson is author of two poetry collections via Red Squirrel Press, The Assassination Museum (2010) and A Beginner’s Guide To Cheating (2015). He has also edited several anthologies including Split Screen, Double Bill, Whaleback City and New Boots and Pantisocracies, the last two in collaboration with W N Herbert, plus a forthcoming anthology Scotia […]
Pat Watson
Anne Welsh
Patricia Hahn
Pete Halliwell
Austin Lawrence
Katherine Gallagher
Dennis Stukenbroeker
Tiffany Tondut
Charlie Millar
R.W. McGaughey
Daisy Hirst
Winner of the Simon Elvin Young Poets of 1998 and 1999.
Cedric Fox-Kirk
Alice Kavounas
David Blaber
R.N. Allan
Christopher North
Christopher North’s poetry has won many prizes. His first pamphlet collection A Mesh of Wires was short-listed for the Forward Prize in 1999. His first full collection Explaining the Circumstances was published in 2010, followed by a bilingual joint collection Al Otro Lado del Aguilar in 2011 and a second full collection The Night Surveyor in […]
Heidi Williamson
Katrina Naomi
Katrina Naomi’s first full collection The Girl with the Cactus Handshake was published by Templar Poetry in November 2009. Originally from Margate, she now lives in south London. www.katrinanaomi.co.uk
Nina Boyd
Jacky Tarleton
Having been brought up in Manchester, Yorkshire and Tyneside, Jacky studied English at Durham University before working in Zambia, Kent, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Exeter. Now that her son and daughter have left home, she is enjoying being a student again at Exeter University, supervised by the poet, Andy Brown. Her PhD provides an exciting opportunity […]
Tom Cunliffe
Gwyneth Box
Conor Beales
Maggie Butt
Maggie Butt has published five poetry collections and a novel. She’s an ex-journalist and BBC TV producer who’s taught creative writing at Middlesex University for 26 years and is now a Royal Literary Fund fellow at the University of Kent. Her most recent poetry collection Degrees of Twilight (The London Magazine, 2015) follows her illustrated, […]
Sudeep Sen
Sudeep’s collections include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Distracted Geographies, Prayer Flag, Rain, Aria (A K Ramanujan Translation Award), Ladakh, and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor). Blue Nude: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1979-2014 (Jorge Zalamea International Poetry Prize) is forthcoming. Sen’s newer work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta),Language […]
Wendy Searle
Eve Jackson
Josie Turner
Petra Christian
Lois Wilson
Philip Rush
Alessio Zanelli
Kristina Close
Annie Chance
Patrick Maddock
Lyn Moir
Gareth Writer-Davies
Gareth Writer-Davies won the Prole Laureate Poetry Competition in 2017. He’s previously been Commended in the Prole Laureate Competition, the Welsh Poetry Competition and the Sherborne Open Poetry Competition. Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Erbacce Prize. His pamphlet Bodies, was published in 2015 through Indigo Dreams and his next pamphlet Cry Baby is […]
Rebecca Hughes
Jane Kite
Jane Kite lives in Otley, West Yorkshire. She is joint managing editor of Otley Word Feast Press. She was commended in The Poetry Society’s 2013 Stanza Poetry Competition on the theme of ‘Drought’, judged by Neil Rollinson.
Julie Corbett
Julie Corbett lives in Hull and her chap book On the Humber is available from www.foldedword.com. An active member of the collective Women of Words she has read Beverley and Bridlington Literature Festivals and has received commissions for poetry performances at Humbermouth Literature Festival and the BBC’s Contains Strong Language. Her poems have been published in several poetry […]
Olivia Dawson
Olivia Dawson lives near Lisbon and has set up a Stanza group in the Lisbon area. Recent poems have been published in Magma, in Paper Swans Press Anthology The Chronicles of Eve and online at And Other Poems.
Jeri Onitskansky
Keith Bennett
Michael Scott
Annette Volfing
Chris Bridge
Chris Bridge was born in Hull in 1947. Since graduating from Nottingham University he has had two parallel careers as teacher and writer. In the first he has been an English teacher for 40 years and a Headteacher for 17 of those years. He has also been an educational consultant working mostly with schools in […]
Brian Clark
Brian Clark returned to writing poems four years ago, since when he has won a variety of prizes and commendations including Ledbury, Barnet, Segora, and Poetry on the Lake. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in various anthologies. He is currently preparing his first collection in the hope of its […]
Will Kemp
Will Kemp studied at Cambridge and UEA, and has lived in Canada, Holland and New Zealand. He now lives in North Yorkshire, where he works as a planner assessing the environmental impacts of major developments. Will has been highly placed in several national competitions, and won the Keats-Shelley Prize, Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award and […]
Tracey Martin
Olivia Walwyn
Lynn Woollacott
Jane Lovell
Jane Lovell is an award-winning poet whose work focuses on our relationship with the planet and its wildlife. Her latest collection This Tilting Earth is published by Seren. Jane also writes for Dark Mountain and Elementum Journal. She is Writer-in-Residence at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. Her new collection ‘God of Lost Ways’ is forthcoming from Indigo […]
Hilary Jenkins
Emily Bilman
David Penhale
Alwyn Marriage
David Van-Cauter
David Van-Cauter lives and writes in Hitchin, Herts. He was recently commended in the Café Writers Commission for his proposed pamphlet J. This is the second year running he has been commended in the Stanza competition. He is a personal tutor and editor. He loves board games, music, cats and being spontaneous. He was MC for […]
John Levett
John Levett was joint winner of the 1991 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘A Shrunken Head’. His latest collection is The Nick of Time published by Shoestring Press in 2014.
Charlie Druce
Charlie Druce was commended in the 2006 National Poetry Competition.
John Daniel
John Daniel is a poet and artist. He was commended in the 2006 National Poetry Competition. His collection, Skinning the Bull, was published by Oversteps in 2012.
Linda Chase
Linda Chase was an American poet who lived in the UK for over 40 years and set up the Manchester branch of the Poetry School. She was commended in the 2007 National Poetry Competition. Her last published collection was Not Many Love Poems (Carcanet, 2011). She died in 2011.
Ruth Valentine
Ruth Valentine was commended in the 2007 National Poetry Competition. Her latest collection is On the Saltmarsh (Smokestack, 2012).
Ilse Pedler
Valerie Smith
Graham Norman
Robin Kidson
Susannah Hart

Helen Overell
Helen Overell lived in many places as a child, including Wales and the north of England, and now lives in the Mole Valley with her husband. She studied at Bristol University and has a BSc Honours Degree in Physics. She has worked as a teacher, a research assistant, in local government and as a science […]
Diana Brodie
Sarah Davies
Peter Doyle
Rodney Wood
Meg Cox
Simon Currie
Simon Currie was born in Leeds in 1938. He became a consultant neurologist there. After Open University courses on literature and the Enlightenment, he gained a PhD at Sheffield Hallam University on medical interaction in colonial India and West Indies. He is a member of the Beehive Poets, Bradford, and of the Pennine Poets. He […]
Sarah James
Sarah James (also published as Sarah Leavesley) is a prize-winning poet, fiction writer, journalist and photographer. She has been the Poetry Society’s Worcestershire Stanza rep since shortly after the Stanza started in 2009. She also runs V. Press poetry and flash fiction imprint. Her website is at http://www.sarah-james.co.uk.
Adrian Hogan
Kate Noakes
Doreen Hinchliffe
Anthony Watts
Timothy Brewis
D A Prince
Davina (D A) Prince has been a Poetry Society Member for many years and is also a member of the South Leicestershire Stanza. Her poem ‘Jack‘ was a runner-up in The Poetry Society’s Stanza Poetry Competition in 2010, judged by Sheenagh Pugh, and she has been regularly published in Poetry News. D A Prince’s first […]
Gill Nicholson
A.C. Clarke
Angela Croft
Angela Croft worked as a journalist and took to writing poetry in retirement. Highly commended in competitions and widely published in magazines with poems on various websites including the Poetry Kit and a collection entitled ‘Dancing with Chagall’ published in Caboodle by Prolebooks.
Kevin Salmon
Dorothy Yamamoto
David Briggs
David Briggs is a poet and teacher. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and was commended in the 2007 National Poetry Competition. His first collection, The Method Men, was published in 2010 by Salt and his latest collection is Rain Rider (Salt, 2013).
Sarah Doyle
Frances Green
Ann Chance
Dorothy Lehane
Mark Carson
Caroline Cook
Caroline Cook has contributed a poem to our Waterlines project.
Robbie Burton
Lara Frankena
Pat Murgatroyd
Judith Taylor
Euan Tait
Isabella Mead
Isabella Mead lives in Buckinghamshire with Ama the cat. She holds a Master’s in History of Art and is currently studying for a degree in French, Italian and Spanish. A former secondary English teacher in East London, she worked for two years as a teacher trainer in a rural Rwandan village before working as Head […]

Hilary Jupp
Since moving from Dartmoor, where she lived for many years, to a village in Cornwall, Hilary recently came to live by the Plymouth waterfront. She’s also had poems published in various poetry journals and anthologies and is pleasantly surprised to know that she still has something to say and write about in her new home […]
Jenny Morris
Philip Williams
Linda Goulden
Louise Wilford
Barry Tempest
Carole Bromley
Carole Bromley has published three collections with Smith|Doorstop: A Guided Tour of the Ice House (2011), The Stonegate Devil (2015) and Blast Off!, a collection for children (2017). She has twice been a winner in the Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition and has two pamphlets: Unscheduled Halt (2004) and Skylight (2009). She has also […]
Alyss Dye
Paul Blake
Sally Flint

Geraldine Clarkson
Geraldine Clarkson is the winner of the Anne Born Prize 2015. In 2015 she also won the Poetry London Competition, Magma Editors’ Prize and the 2015 Ver Prize. She was included in The Best British Poetry 2014 (Salt) and she was ‘Selected Poet’ in Magma 58. She has two poems in This Line is Not […]
John White
Brigid Sivill
Patricia Ace
Patricia Ace’s collection, Fabulous Beast, was published by Freight Books in 2013.
Carol DeVaughn
Helen Jagger
Helen Jagger’s poems have been published in the UK, US and Australia. She runs The Poetry Society’s North Cornwall Stanza, many poetry workshops and has facilitated the Indian King Poets. She was poet in residence at Pencarrow from 2010 – 2012 and worked alongside a photographer and painter on The Bodmin Moor Project. In 2014 she worked with the Falmouth Poetry […]
Lesley Saunders
Lesley Saunders is the author of several books of poetry, most recently Nominy-Dominy (Two Rivers Press 2018) – ‘a feature of this collection is its sheer ease with and celebration of language itself’; and also, with Philip Gross, A Part of the Main (Mulfran Press 2018), a book-length dialogue-in-poetry about belonging and migration in an […]
Colin Pink
Colin Pink has published two collections of poetry: Acrobats of Sound (Poetry Salzburg, 2016) and The Ventriloquist Dummy’s Lament (Against the Grain, 2019).
Josh Ekroy
Janet Lees
Janet Lees is a poet, artist and poetry filmmaker. Her poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies, and her film poems selected for many international festivals and screenings. Her 2019 book House of water combines her poetry and art photography, while A bag of sky won first prize in the Frosted Fire Firsts […]

Jill Munro
Jill Munro has been widely published in poetry magazines and long-listed three times for the National Poetry Competition. Her first collection Man from La Paz was published in 2015 by Green Bottle Press. She won the Fair Acre Press Pamphlet Competition 2015 with The Quilted Multiverse, published April 2016.
NAGA MC
NAGA was only 11 years old when he first hit the stage for the Rise Slam (now SLAMbaddasors UK) in 2007, going on to win his age category. He came back and won the SLAMbassadors national championship again in 2009. Since then he has gone on to work on a wide range of spoken word and […]
Louise Hill
Louise Hill was on the winning Rise Slam (now SLAMbassadors UK) teams from 2004 – 2006. Louise is now an established performer, attracting attention for her dramatic monologues and sensual poetry coupled with her arresting performances.
Vanessa Kisuule
Vanessa was a winner of SL AMbassadors UK 2010, performing on stage alongside Linton Kwesi Johnson at the Drill Hall. Her clever, complex and cutting style makes her a favourite of the UK scene, and she has performed at several festivals including Glastonbury, BrizzleFest and Larmer Tree. She has won Poetry Rivals slam and two […]
Aisling Fahey
Aisling Fahey was a winner of SLAMbassadors UK 2009/10 where she performed on stage alongside Scroobius Pip and Benjamin Zephaniah. She was later highlighted as a poet of the future and performed at the Royal Festival Hall, National Poetry Day Live – on the same bill as the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Aisling’s poetry […]
Chris Preddie OBE
Chris stormed to first place in the Rise Slam championship (now SLAMbassadors UK) in 2006 and quickly became an established part of the national team, touring with SLAMbassadors UK several times over the intervening years. He is a SLAMbassadors UK Poet Coach as well as running his own company Make Dreams Reality who lead motivational […]
Anthony Anaxagorou
Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot award-winning poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. In 2002 he was the first critic’s choice winner of The Poetry Society’s SLAMbassadors UK championship (then known as Rise Slam). He has published nine volumes of poetry, a spoken-word EP and a collection of short stories. His poetry and […]
Catherine Labiran
Catherine was one of the winners of the SLAMbassadors UK competition in 2010 and has since gone on to perform across the UK, lead workshops and set up her own company. She performed as a part of National Poetry Day Live at the Royal Festival Hal in 2011 alongside poets such as Simon Armitage, Jo Shapcott and […]
Michael McKimm
In Still This Need, published by Heaventree Press, Michael McKimm explores the complex beauty of the world we live in, and how we try to understand our place in it. Michael has read at Ledbury Poetry Festival, Scotland’s StAnza Festival and the Féile na Gréine in Co. Kerry. He won an Eric Gregory Award in […]
Holly Hopkins
Holly Hopkins lives and works in London. Her debut pamphlet, Soon Every House Will Have One, won the 2014 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition and Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Holly has received an Eric Gregory Award (2011) and a Hawthornden Fellowship (2016). Holly manages the Forward Prizes for Poetry and is an assistant editor of […]
Swithun Cooper
Swithun won an Eric Gregory Award in 2009 and has been published in magazines including Acumen, the London Magazine and PN Review. He spent a year as the Deputy Editor of Northern Exposure, the Arts Council of England’s Yorkshire-based arts magazine and now works at The Poetry Library. Swithun founded Poetry Digest, an edible poetry […]
Bridget Collins
Bridget writes young adult fiction as B.R. Collins. Her novels include The Traitor Game (which won the 2009 Branford Boase Award) and The Broken Road. Bridget was of the Poetry Society’s Young Poets of the Year in 1999.
Caroline Bird
Caroline Bird has five collections of poetry published by Carcanet. Her most recent collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award. A two time winner of the Foyles Young Poets Award, her first collection Looking Through Letterboxes was published in 2002 when she was 15. She […]
Sue Leigh
Sue Leigh studied for a PhD in poetry at Aberystwyth University and currently teaches creative writing part-time at Rewley House, Oxford University’s department for continuing education. She has been published in numerous magazines and journals including Oxford Magazine, Planet, Poetry News, Templar Poetry Pamphlet 2011, The Times Literary Supplement and The Warwick Review. Her poems […]
Carrie Etter
Originally from Normal, Illinois, Carrie Etter has lived in England since 2001 and taught creative writing at Bath Spa University since 2004. She has published three collections of poetry: The Tethers (Seren, 2009), winner of the London New Poetry Prize, Divining for Starters (Shearsman, 2011) and Imagined Sons (Seren, 2014); additionally, she edited the anthology […]
Imtiaz Dharker
Born in Pakistan, Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. She is an accomplished artist and documentary filmmaker, and has published five collections of poems and drawings with Bloodaxe: Postcards from god (including Purdah) (1997), I Speak for the Devil (2001), […]
Copland Smith
Copland Smith is a Manchester based poet, musician and playwright. He has been commended three times in the National Poetry Competition.
Sue Butler
An Eric Gregory Award-winner, Sue Butler is the author of a number of poetry collections including Learning to Improvise (Rockingham) and Arson (Happenstance). She was commended in the 2007 National Poetry Competition for her poem ‘Reflection, July 1938’.
Pauline Keith
Pauline Keith is a Lancaster based poet who received a commendation in the 2007 National Poetry Competition for her poem ‘Missing’.
Rachel A. Dilworth
Rachel A. Dilworth is an American poet who received a commendation in the 2007 National Poetry Competition for her poem ‘Body Sonnets VIII: The Magdalen’. Her first manuscript, The Wild Rose Asylum: Poems of the Magdalen Laundries of Ireland, was chosen as the winner of the 2008 Akron Poetry Prize. It was published by the […]
Frank Dux
Frank Dux was commended in the 2007 National Poetry Competition for his poem ‘Coming Down to Drink’.
Patrick Brandon
Patrick Brandon was commended in the 2007 National Poetry Competition for his poem ‘Flat Dad’. His first poetry collection, A Republic of Linen, was published by Bloodaxe in 2009.
David Kennedy
David Kennedy is a poet and editor. He also reviews regularly for magazines such as The Poetry Review, PN Review and Stand. He has published three of his own poetry collections with Salt. He won third prize in the 2007 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘Encore, Mr Fox!’.
Rosemary Norman
Rosemary Norman won 2nd prize in the 2007 National Poetry Competition with her poem ‘The Hairdresser from Beirut’. She has published two full collections; Threats & Promises (Iron Press, 1991) and Italics (Shoestring Press, 2010).
Rhian Gallagher
Rhian Gallagher was placed third in the 2001 National Poetry Competition with her poem ‘Embrace’.
Ann Drysdale
Ann Drysdale received second prize in the 2001 National Poetry Competition with her poem ‘New Fruit’. Her collections include Backwork (Peterloo Poets, 2002) and Quaintness and Other Offences (Cinnamon, 2009).
James Manlow
James Manlow won second prize in the 2003 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘The Lazy Maid’. He was appointed as Bournemouth’s first poet laureate in 2013 and his debut poetry collection, When We Were Slugs, was published in 2014 by Parkgate Press.
David Grubb
David Grubb received 3rd prize in the 2006 National Poetry Competition for his poem ‘Bud Fields and His World’. His poetry collections include It Comes with a Bit of Song (Salt, 2007) and Ways of Looking, a pamphlet published by Smith/Doorstop in 2013.
John Latham
John Latham is a writer, poet and playwright who has had several of his plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4. His poetry collections include All-Clear (Peterloo Poets, 1990) and Sailor Boy (The Collective Press, 2006). He was awarded second prize in the 2006 National Poetry Competition for his poem ‘From Professor Nobu Kitagawa’s Notebooks On […]
Michael Hulse
Michael Hulse is a poet, critic and translator. Since 2002 he has taught poetry and comparative literature at the University of Warwick where he also established The Warwick Review in 2007. He won the inaugural National Poetry Competition in 1978 with his poem ‘Dole Queue’. Other awards include an Eric Gregory Award in 1980 and […]
Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian is a poet from Northern Ireland whose poem ‘The Flitting’ won first prize in the 1979 National Poetry Competition. Her first published poems appeared in two pamphlets published in 1980, the year in which she received an Eric Gregory Award. She went on to publish many collections including The Flower Master (1982) which […]
Tony Harrison
Tony Harrison is a poet, playwright and translator. Many of his works have been performed at the Royal National Theatre and he is known for controversial works such as his poem ‘V’, as well as versions of dramatic works. He has won numerous awards over the years including the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1992 […]
James Berry
James Berry is a Jamaican poet who settled in England in the 1940s. He won the 1981 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘Fantasy of an African Boy’. He has written several volumes of poetry for children, winning awards along the way such as the Smarties Prize in 1987 for A Thief in the Village […]
Sophie Fenella Robinski
Sophie Fenella Robinski is a poet and a performer from London. She is a member of The Roundhouse Poetry Collective and Burn After Reading Poetry Collective. She has performed her poetry around the UK at venues such as The Roundhouse, The Royal Festival Hall and in July 2013 she was long-listed to be the Young […]
Rachel Long
Rachel Long is a poet and the founder of Octavia – Poetry Collective for Womxn of Colour. Her debut poetry collection, My Darling from the Lions, published by Picador in August 2020.
Megan Beech
Megan Beech was the winner of the Poetry Society’s SLAMbassadors national youth slam 2011. She has performed at venues including the Southbank Centre, Latitude and Glastonbury Festivals and the University of Cambridge. Her debut collection ‘When I Grow Up I Want to be Mary Beard’ was published by Burning Eye Books in December 2013. Megan […]
Gabriel Akamo
Gabriel Akamo won The Poetry Society’s SLAMbassadors UK competition in 2012 and since then has written and performed for various events, including opening ‘Indiana Jones and the Extra Chair’ at the Southbank Centre with other emerging poets. Previous performances also include ‘Jawdance’, ‘Tongue Fu’, and recording for ‘Peace Camp 2012’ and ‘Goodbye Piccadilly’, the London […]
Greta Stoddard
Tommy Sissons
Tommy Sissons was a winner of the SLAMbassadors UK national youth slam in 2014, judged by Kate Tempest. He has toured nationwide, produced his own one-man show, released an EP and performed on Channel 4.
Katie Walters
Katie Walters was a winner of the SLAMbassadors UK national youth slam in 2014, judged by Kate Tempest.
Ibukun Badmus
Ibukun Badmus was a winner of the SLAMbassadors UK national youth slam in 2014, judged by Kate Tempest.
Jemima Higgins
Jemima Higgins was a winner of the SLAMbassadors UK national youth slam in 2014, judged by Kate Tempest. Jemima said of her win, “I was hugely surprised and absolutely honoured to be one of the 7 winners of SLAMbassadors this year. I’ve been writing poetry of dubious quality since I was 11 or 12. I do […]
Abdullah Alselami
Abdullah Alselami was a winner of the SLAMbassadors UK national youth slam in 2014, judged by Kate Tempest.
Saoirse Lennon
Saoirse Lennon was a winner of the SLAMbassadors UK national youth slam in 2014, judged by Kate Tempest.
Sadia Ahmed
Sadia Ahmed was a winner of the SLAMbassadors UK national youth slam in 2014, judged by Kate Tempest.
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright who was appointed Britain’s Poet Laureate in 2009. She is one of the UK’s most well-known and successful contemporary poets with numerous poetry collections to her name, including Standing Female Nude (1985), Mean Time (1993), The World’s Wife (1999) and Rapture (2005). She has won many […]
Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis won the 1984 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘The Death of Richard Beattie-Seaman in Belgian Grand Prix, 1939’. He has published several collections of poetry, the latest of which is Crossing Over (Seren, 2007).
Martin Reed
Martin Reed won the 1988 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘The Widow’s Dream’.
William Scammell
William Scammell won the 1989 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘A World Elsewhere’. He published several poetry collections during his lifetime, the last of which was All Set to Fall Off the Edge of the World (1998, Flambard). He died in 2000.
Eric Aupperle
Eric Aupperle is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Translation’ challenge and a runner up in the inaugural Timothy Corsellis prize.
Phyllida Jacobs
Phyllida Jacobs is a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Shakespeare’s shoes’ challenge and a runner up for the inaugural Timothy Corsellis prize.
John Hegley
Nick Rice
Nick Rice won the 1990 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘Room Service’.
Sam Gardiner
Sam Gardiner (1936-2016) won the 1993 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘Protestant Windows’. The collection Protestant Windows appeared in 2000, followed by The Picture Never Taken (2004), The Night Ships (2007) and The Morning After (2010). David Wheatley paid tribute to Sam in 2016.
Beatrice Garland
Beatrice Garland won the 2001 National Poetry Competition with her poem ‘undressing’. Her first poetry collection, The Invention of Fireworks, was published in 2013 by Templar and was shortlisted among the Forward Prizes for the Felix Dennis Prize awarded to the best first collection.
Jon Sait
Jon Sait won the 2004 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘Homeland’.
Mike Barlow
Mike Barlow won the 2006 National Poetry Competition with his poem ‘The Third Wife’. He won the Ledbury Competition in 2005 and the Amnesty International competition in 2002. His first collection, Living on the Difference, won the Poetry Business competition in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Aldeburgh prize. His latest collection is Charmed […]
Suzanne Batty
Suzanne has been writing poetry for a number of years, and lectures in creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University. Her first poetry collection, The Barking Thing, was published by Bloodaxe in 2007. She won the Poetry Society’s inaugural Anne Born Prize in 2013, and is working on her second collection.
Kei Miller
Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. Kei writes across a range of genres: novels, books of short stories, essays and poetry. His 2014 collection, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet), won the Forward Prize for Best Collection. His poetry has also been shortlisted for awards such as the Jonathan Llewelyn Ryhs Prize, […]
Daisy Behagg
Daisy Behagg’s poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, The Rialto, Poetry Wales, The North and Ambit. She won the Bridport Prize for Poetry in 2013 and her debut pamphlet, Cockpit Syndrome was published by Templar Poetry. She teaches creative writing and is Poetry Editor of the journal New Linear Perspectives. She lives in Brighton.
Amy Key
Amy Key’s poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and Poetry magazine. Her debut collection Luxe was published by Salt in 2013. She is the editor of Best Friends Forever, poems on female friendship (The Emma Press, 2014) and the online journal Poems in Which.
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards was born and grew up in south Wales. He has an MA in Writing from the University of Warwick and currently works as an English teacher. He won the Terry Hetherington Award in 2010, was awarded a Literature Wales new writer’s bursary in 2011, and in 2012 won prizes in the Cardiff International […]
Neetha Kunaratnam
Neetha Kunaratnam was born and grew up in London, of Tamil Sri Lankan parents, but has lived in both Japan and France – and speaks French, German and Spanish.
Tamara Fulcher
Andrew Bailey
Lucie McKee
Rebecca O’Connor
David Gravender
Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy (1965-2009) won The Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 for his poem ‘An Idea of Order’. Several further poems appeared in The Poetry Review, including ‘Turf’. His Collected Poems was published posthumously by Shoestring Press in 2009. Gwyneth Lewis wrote: “Michael Murphy’s poetry is an heroic body of work – elegant, unwavering […]
Anna Wrigley
Anna Wrigley won the Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2000 for her poem ‘Beloved Daughter’.
Paul Farley
James Harpur
James Harpur has had five books of poetry published by Anvil Press, including his latest, Angels and Harvesters (2012), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Dark Age (2007) won the 2009 Michael Hartnett Award. Other prizes and bursaries include the National Poetry Competition 1995, two Arts Council of Ireland Bursaries, a Society of […]
Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forché is Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington DC, co-editor of the anthologies Against Forgetting (Norton, 1993) and Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English: 1500-2001 (Norton, 2014). Her collections include Blue Hour (HarperCollins, USA; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2003) and The Angel of History (HarperCollins, USA; Bloodaxe Books, 1994), which received the Los Angeles Times Book Award; The Country Between Us (HarperCollins, 1982), which […]
Jo Bell
Poet, Jo Bell was the inaugural Canal Laureate for the Canal & River Trust and The Poetry Society from 2013-2015. Jo Bell was formerly an industrial archaeologist specialising in industrial remains like mines, railways… and canals. She discovered historic narrowboats and began writing poetry seriously at about the same time; and her career has since […]

Tess Jolly
Tess Jolly’s poetry has appeared in many UK poetry magazines and in the anthologies The Best New British and Irish Poets 2016 and The Poet’s Quest for God (published by Eyewear Publishing). She has won the Hamish Canham Prize and the Anne Born Prize, and has published two pamphlets: Touchpapers (Eyewear Publishing) and Thus the […]
Tony Lucas
Paul Stephenson
Paul Stephenson has three pamphlets: Those People (Smith/Doorstop, 2015), The Days that Followed Paris (HappenStance, 2016) and Selfie with Waterlilies (Paper Swans Press, 2017). He was published in the Poetry Society’s Poetry News as a winner of the Members’ Poems Competition on the themes of ‘Home’, ‘Gold’ and ‘The Tiny World’. His website is paulstep.com
Sharon Black
Sharon Black’s collection, To Know Bedrock, was published by Pindrop Press in 2011. Her second, The Art of Egg, was published by Two Ravens Press in 2015. She was a winner in the Poetry News Members’ Poems Competition on the theme of ‘Gold’. Sharon is from Scotland but now lives in the south of France. […]
Nicola Mayne
After taking her degree in Swedish and English Literature at St David’s University College, Lampeter, Nicola Mayne taught English abroad and in the UK for some years before settling down again to the mudflats, Iron Age Forts and hills of Somerset where she writes poetry, learns languages for fun and illustrates things for her patient children […]
Anna Kisby
Anna Kisby lives in Devon. Her poetry has been placed in competitions and published in magazines including Poetry News, Mslexia, Orbis, Seam and South Bank Poetry. She was the winner of the New Writer poetry competition 2011. Her debut pamphlet is published with Against the Grain Press in October 2017.
Jan Bay-Petersen
Jan Bay-Petersen is a New Zealander who came to Cambridge to do a Ph.D., and spent twenty years at an international agricultural centre in Taiwan. She worked with Asian scientists who collected technical information that could be used on small farms, and distributed it free of charge. She began writing poetry when she retired and […]
Angela Stoner
Angela Stoner lives in Cornwall. She runs workshops which explore the therapeutic power of writing. She has two published books Once in a Blue Moon (Fal publications) and a collection of poetry Weight and Flight (Oversteps Books). She finds the support and insight of groups such as Stanza invaluable. She was the winner of the […]
Julia Webb
Julia Webb is a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s Creative writing MA. She is a poetry editor for Lighthouse. Her first collection Bird Sisters was published by Nine Arches Press in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various publications including: Poetry News, Other Poetry and Ink, Sweat and Tears. She was recently one […]
Michael Swan
Michael Swan was the winner of The Poetry Society’s Stanza Competition in 2010 with ‘I Wasn’t There’. He works in English language teaching and applied linguistics, with a focus on grammar. He has been writing poetry since his first mid-life crisis, quite a while back. His poems have been widely published, and he has gained […]
Julie Lumsden
Julie Lumsden won The Poetry Society’s Stanza Poetry Competition in 2009 with ‘Fancy Man’ and her poems have also been published in Poetry News. Her pamphlet True Crime was published by Shoestring Press and she also has two previous pamphlets, Naked by Profession (Leafe Press, 2000) and Sixteen Poems (Open House Editions, 2004).
Richard Goodson
Richard Goodson is a poet, creative writing teacher and runs The Poetry Society’s Nottingham Stanza. He was winner of our 2008 Stanza Poetry Competition with ‘Daniel Craig: The Screensaver’, which was subsequently published in the Penguin Poetry of Sex, edited by Sophie Hannah. He co-edited Heroes: From Mum to Mandela (Five Leaves, November 2012), an anthology […]
Patrick McGuinness
Patrick McGuinness was born in Tunisia in 1968 and is now Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of St Anne’s College. He is the author of two collections of poems, published by Carcanet, a novel and several academic books about French literature and modern poetry. […]
Hélène Dorion
Hélène Dorion was born in 1958 in Québec City, and now lives in Montreal. She studied philosophy at the University of Laval, and published her first collection of poems in 1983. Since then her prolific oeuvre – poetry, fiction, essays, and livres d’artistes – has constituted one of modern Quebecois literature’s major achievements. She is […]
Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was an influential French poet and adventurer who wrote most of his poems as a teen, stopping at age 21.
Lorna Shaughnessy
Lorna Shaughnessy was born in Belfast and lives in County Galway. She lectures in the Department of Spanish, NUI Galway. She has published two collections of her own poems, Torching the Brown River and Witness Trees (Salmon Poetry) as well as two translations of contemporary Mexican poets: Mother Tongue: Selected Poems by Pura López Colomé […]
Kristiina Ehin
Kristiina Ehin is one of Estonia’s leading poets and is known throughout Europe for her poetry and short stories. She has an MA in Comparative and Estonian Folklore from the University of Tartu, and folklore plays a significant role in her work. In her native Estonian she has to date published six volumes of poetry, […]
Manuel Rivas
Poet, novelist, short-story writer and journalist, Manuel Rivas was born in A Coruña, Galicia (north-western Spain) in 1957, and writes in Galician, which is one of Spain’s co-official languages. His work has a deep connection with the landscape, folklore and history of Galicia, but has a universal impact that has led to him being recognised […]
Luljeta Lleshanaku
Luljeta Lleshanakuwas born in Elbasan, Albania in 1968. Under Enver Hoxha’s Stalinist dictatorship, she grew up under house arrest. Lleshanaku was not permitted to attend college or publish her poetry until the weakening and eventual collapse of the regime in the early 1990s. She later studied Albanian philology at the University of Tirana, and has […]
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé was born in Paris on 18th March 1842, the son of Numa Mallarmé (1805-1863) and Élisabeth Desmolins (1819-1847). He had one sister, Maria (1844-1857). After a short spell in the Registry Office at Sens, he trained as a teacher of English, working at schools in Tournon, Besançon and Avbignon before settling in Paris […]
Peter Manson
Peter Manson lives in Glasgow, Scotland. His books include Between Cup and Lip (Miami University Press), For the Good of Liars and Adjunct: an Undigest (both from Barque Press) and Poems of Frank Rupture. He was shortlisted for the Poetry Society’s Popescu Prize 2013 for his translation of The Poems in Verse by Stéphane Mallarmé (Miami University Press). Read ‘The Tomb of Edgar […]
Ciaran Carson
Ciaran Carson (9 October 1948 – 6 October 2019) was born in Belfast and studied English at Queen’s University. He worked in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from 1975 to 1998, with responsibility for Traditional Music and, subsequently, Literature. In October 2003 he was appointed Professor of Poetry and Director of the Seamus Heaney […]

Robin Houghton
Robin Houghton is published in many magazines including Agenda, Bare Fiction, Envoi, Poetry News, Prole and The Rialto, and in numerous anthologies. She won the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Prize in 2013 and the 2014 Stanza competition and was runner-up in the Plough Poetry Prize 2014. Her pamphlet The Great Vowel Shift was published by […]
Denise Bennett
Denise Bennett has an MA in creative writing (poetry) and teaches FE classes in this subject. She won the Havant Literary Festival poetry competition in 2014 and the Hastings Poetry Competition in 2013, as well as winning the inaugural Hamish Canham Prize from the Poetry Society in 2004. Her work has appeared in various poetry […]
Judy Brown
Judy Brown was born in Cheshire and studied English and American literature at Cambridge and Newcastle upon Tyne universities. She resumed writing after a thirteen year interval (which started in the early nineties following a move to Hong Kong) and ‘Loudness’, which won the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Prize in 2005, was the first of […]
Keith Chandler
Keith Chandler was born and educated in Northern Nigeria and worked as a secondary school teacher in Liverpool, London and Norfolk. He lives in Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Since being selected for Ten English Poets (Carcanet) in 1977, his poetry has been published in four collections: Kett’s Rebellion (Carcanet, 1982), A Passing Trade (1991), A Different Kind […]
Matt Barnard
Matt Barnard has had poems published in numerous magazines, including Acumen, London Magazine, Magma, Other Poetry and Outposts. He featured in the Poetry School’s 2004 anthology Entering the Tapestry and won The Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Prize with his poem ‘The Sore Thumb’ in 2006. His poems ‘The Gift’ and ‘Hey Presto’ were also selected […]
Dorothy Pope
Dorothy Pope began writing at the age of fifty-three having taken early retirement from teaching. She is author of The Fourth Man – A Selection of Poems (self-published) and The Summerhouse Poems. She teaches English to individual pupils in a garden shed at her Harrow on the Hill home. Disabled, married (to The Fourth Man) […]
Gill Learner
Gill Learner was born in 1939 near Birmingham and now lives in Reading. Having worked in the printing trade, she then taught printing studies. Since beginning to write poetry in 2001 she has won the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Prize in 2008 and the Buxton poetry competition (2011). Her first collection, The Agister’s Experiment, (2011) […]
Emma Danes
Emma Danes’ pamphlet Dress of Shadows was a winner in the Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition 2012/13. Her poems have won the Hamish Canham Prize and the Poetry Society Stanza Poetry Competition, and been published in anthologies and magazines including CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets (Smith|Doorstop) and The Best British […]
Joan Michelson
Joan Michelson’s publications include The Family Kitchen, The Finishing Line Press, USA, 2018; Landing Stage, prize publication, SPM Publishers UK, 2017; Bloomvale Home, Original Plus Books, UK, 2016; Toward The Heliopause, Poetic Matrix Press, USA 2011. Her writing has been selected for British Council and Arts Council anthologies of New Writing. She was Crouch End […]
Suzanna Fitzpatrick
Suzanna Fitzpatrick has been published in Brittle Star, The Frogmore Papers, Fuselit, The Interpreter’s House, HQ, Mslexia, The North, Poetry News, South, and South Bank Poetry. She was commended in the 2013 Hippocrates Prize and the 2012 Poetry London and 2011 South Bank Poetry competitions, came second in the 2010 Buxton Competition, and has been shortlisted for […]
Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas (1878-1917) was known chiefly as a prose writer and only wrote poetry during the last few years of his life, encouraged by his close friend, the American poet Robert Frost. Thomas is now widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent British poets of the twentieth century and poems such as ‘Adlestrop’ are among […]
Charlotte Higgins
Charlotte Higgins is a former Foyle Young Poet and was a participant in the Hands across the border poetry project. She won the Poetry Society’s SLAMbassadors performance poetry competition in 2012. She is also a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Poem on a postcard’ poetry challenge.
Haf Davies
Haf Davies is a former Foyle Young Poet and participant in the Hands across the border poetry project.
Jake Reynolds
Jake Reynolds is a former Foyle Young Poet and participant in the Hands across the border poetry project. He is also a winner of the Young Poets Network poetry challenges including ‘Censorship’ and ‘Imagism’.
Pauline Stainer
Pauline Stainer was commissioned by the Churches Conservation Trust and the Poetry Society to write a celebratory poem to mark the CCT’s 40th anniversary in 2008. She is an acclaimed English poet. She was born in the industrial district of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, in 1941. She later left the city to attend St Anne’s College, Oxford, […]
Theo Lewis
Theo is commended in the tree poetry challenge on Young Poets Network, and a third-prize-winner of the Young Poets Network 2017 August challenge #1, themed around edgelands. He is also a 2014 winner of the Cape Farewell/Young Poets Network ‘Crossing the Border’ competition to produce poems in response to climate change.
Denisa Vítová
Denisa Vítová is the overall winner in the 2016 Young Poets Network August Challenge #4, and is commended in the Who is Giselle? poetry challenge. Her poems have also won several other challenges on Young Poets Network, including the Timothy Corsellis Prize 2015, the Animal Tales Challenge, and Helen Mort’s Cape Farewell writing challenge.

David Wheatley
David Wheatley was born in Dublin in 1970. He has published four collections with The Gallery Press: Thirst (1997, Rooney Prize for Irish Literature), Misery Hill (2000), Mocker (2006) and A Nest on the Waves (2010). He was awarded the Vincent Buckley Prize in 2008 and features in The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry. He teaches at the University of Aberdeen, having previously taught in Hull University. He […]
Sam Willetts
Leontia Flynn
Leontia Flynn is a Belfast poet whose previous collections include These Days, a winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and Drives which won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. She was awarded the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Prize in 2013.
Alan Gillis
Sarah Westcott
Sarah Westcott’s collection Slant Light is published by Pavilion Poetry. Her poems have appeared in magazines including The Poetry Review and Magma, and on beermats, billboards and the side of buses. Recent awards are the London Magazine poetry prize and the Manchester Cathedral prize. www.sarahwestcott.co.uk
Hannah Gamble
Paul Muldoon

Jan Wagner
Jan Wagner was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1971. A poet and essayist, he has published six volumes of poetry, including Guerickes Sperling (2004), Achtzehn Pasteten (2007), Australien (2010)and his most recent collection Regentonnenvariationen (2014), for which he was awarded the Prize of the Leipzig Bookfair (2015). He is the co-editor of two influential anthologies […]
Mary Peelen
David Hart
David Hart has won several major prizes, including the National Poetry Competition 1994 and the Common Ground/Blue Nose Poets Field Days competition. His poems were published in 1999 as Setting the poem to words (Five Seasons Press). Poet in Residence at Worcester Cathedral in 1998-99, David Hart set out to investigate through poetry, the spiritual. […]
Helen Farish
Helen Farish was born in Cumbria in 1962, where she now lives. She has been a Hawthornden Fellow and was the first female Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust (2004-05). She has also been a Visiting Lecturer at Sewanee University, Tennessee, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of New Hampshire. She lectures at […]

Carole Satyamurti 1939-2019
Carole Satyamurti was a poet and social scientist. She published six collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Countdown (Bloodaxe, 2011). Her work has been widely anthologised, and has won numerous awards, including first prize in the National Poetry Competition, 1986, and a Cholmondeley Award in 2000. She was joint winner of the […]
Janet Kofi-Tsekpo
Dennis O’Driscoll
Deryn Rees-Jones
Deryn Rees-Jones is an Anglo Welsh poet and critic. She undertook doctoral research on women poets at Birkbeck College, London, and now lectures at Liverpool University. She has published several collections of poetry including The Memory Tray (Seren, 1994), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and more recently Burying the Wren (Seren, […]
Liz Lochhead
Liz Lochhead is a Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster. She was the Makar (the National Poet of Scotland) between 2011 and 2016.
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas was a Welsh Poet (1914 – 1953) who became popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death in New York. In his later life he acquired a reputation, which he encouraged, as a “roistering, drunken and doomed poet”. He is particularly known for his play Under Milk Wood and his […]
Paul Mills
Paul was born in Northwich, Cheshire, in March 1948. He is the author of many poetry collections, the most recent of which is Voting for Spring (Smith Doorstop, 2010).
Tom Lowenstein
Tom Lowenstein was born in 1941. He is the author of many collections of poetry, the most recent of which is, From Culbone Wood – In Xanadu (Shearsman, 2013).
Keith Howden
Keith Howden is the author of many collections of poetry, the most recent of which is, Barlow Agonistes (Lulu, 2014).
Edwin Drummond
Edwin Drummond is a British poet and climber. He is the author of many collections of poetry, the most recent of which is A Dream of White Horses: Recollections of a Life on the Rocks (Diadem Books, 1987).
Elsa Corbluth
Elsa Corbluth is the author of many poetry collections, the most recent of which is Eighteen to Eighty: A Life Sketched in Poems (Bardic Media, 2011).
Gladys Mary Coles
Poet, novelist, biographer, publisher, editor and tutor of creative writing, Gladys Mary Cole’s published work includes nine collections of poetry, various anthologies and two biographies of Mary Webb. Clay (Flambard, 2010) is her first novel and was long listed for the 2011 Wales Book of the Year.
Brian Hughes
Brian Hughes died in 2007. His most recent work is Out of Season – In Sepia: The Monastary Church of Ayia Napia in Offshoots VIII (Geneva Writers’ Group, 2005).
Meg Peacocke
Meg Peacocke was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1930. She received the Cholmondeley Award in 2005 and her most recent work is Caliban Dancing (Shoestring, 2013).
Bill Costley
Bill Costley is the author of the anthology Graces (HarperSanFrancisco, 1995).
Richard McCracken
Richard McCracken’s poem, ‘Sisters’ was featured in the Summer 1991 issue of The Poetry Review, and his poem ‘The Man at the Crossing Needs an Eastbound Train’ was published in the 1985 issue.
Paul Groves
Paul Groves was born in Gloucester in 1947. He is an Eric Gregory Award recipient and a major prizewinner in numerous competitions. His latest collection is Qwerty (Seren, 2008).
Meena Alexander
Meena Alexander is an award winning author and scholar. Her latest collection of poetry Birthplace with Buried Stones (TriQuarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press) was published in 2013.
John Gallas
John Gallas was born in 1950 in Wellington, New Zealand. He has published ten collections of poetry with Carcanet Press and edited the anthology of world poetry The Song Atlas (2002).
Hilary Llewellyn Williams
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams was born in Kent but made her home in west Wales for a number of years, before moving recently to Pontypool. She is the author of three collections of poetry, The Tree Calendar, Book of Shadows and Animaculture (Seren).
Samuel B. Peralta
Samuel B. Peralta is the author of the poetry collection Semaphore.
Anna Crowe
Anna Crowe was born in Plymouth in 1945. She spent part of her childhood in France, and read French and Spanish at the University of St Andrews. She was the runner-up in the National Poetry Competition 1985 and her most recent work is Peatlands, translations of poems by Mexican poet Pedro Serrano (Arc Visible Poets, […]
John Whitworth
John Whitworth’s poetry has been featured in The Poetry Review since 1982, the most recent being ‘Religion and Poetry’ in the Winter 2008 issue.
John Lyons
John Lyons was born in born in 1933 in Trinidad and Tobago. In 1987 he won a clutch of poetry prizes: second prize in the Cultureword Poetry Competition; the Peterloo Poets Afro-Caribbean and Asian prize; a commendation in the National Poetry Competition, and in the Peterloo Poetry Competition. His latest collections are Cook-Up in a […]
Sara Berkeley
Sara Berkeley was born in Dublin in 1967. Her collections include Facts about Water (Bloodaxe 1994) and The View From Here (Gallery Books, 2010).
Rosamund Stanhope
Rosamund Stanhope (1919-2005) was a British poet and teacher known for her exuberant use of esoteric and unusual words. Two collections of her poems were published by Peterloo Press in the 1990s, when she also featured as the The Poetry Review‘s Poet of the Month.
Janet Paisley
Janet Paisley was an award winning poet, author, playwright, non-fiction and scriptwriter, writing in Scots and English. Her most recent poetry publication is Ye Cannae Win (Chapman, 2004).
Beata Duncan
Beata Duncan (1921-2015) studied at Birkbeck and University Colleges, London and was the author of the pamphlet collection, Apple Harvest (Hearing Eye, 2000).
Harry Smart
Harry Smart was born in Yorkshire and lives in Montrose, Scotland. He is the author of three poetry collections, the latest of which is Fool’s Pardon (Faber, 1995).
Jeremy Reed
Jeremy Reed has published fifty works in 25 years. He has written more than two dozen books of poetry, 12 novels, and volumes of literary and music criticism. His latest collection is Piccadilly Bongo (Enitharmon, 2010).
Peter Thabit Jones
Peter Thabit Jones is the author of fourteen books, including the Dylan Thomas Walking Tour of Greenwich Village New York with Aeronwy Thomas. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. His numerous awards include an Eric Gregory Award, a Royal Literary Fund Award, an Arts Council of Wales Award, the 2016 Ted Slade […]
Romesh Gunesekera
Romesh Gunesekera was born in 1954 in Sri Lanka where he spent his early years. Before coming to Britain he also lived in the Philippines. He now lives in London. His most recent book, Noontide Toll, was published in 2014.
Michael Bayley
Michael Bayley is the author of the collection, The Art of the Handkerchief (Oversteps, 2014).
Madeline Munro
Madeline Munro is the author of the poetry pamphlet, The Chant: A Highland Farm Childhood (1983).
May Ivimy
May Ivimy’s most recent collection, Finding the Curve was published in 2007. She died in Januray 2011. She will also be remembered for her role as founder and organiser of the St Albans group Ver Poets.
Vuyelwa Carlin
Vuyelwa Carlin was born in South Africa in 1949, brought up in Uganda, and has lived for many years now in Shropshire. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies in the UK and abroad. She has published three poetry collections to date and has won prizes in both the Cardiff and National Poetry […]
Ted Burford
Ted Burford is the author of the collection Cranefly incident : poems (Ealing Press, 1976).
A.B. Barber
Jane Griffiths
Jane Griffiths was born in Exeter in 1970, and brought up in Holland. After reading English at Oxford, where her poem ‘The House’ won the Newdigate Prize, she worked as a book-binder in London and Norfolk. She won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in 1996. Her latest collection is Terrestrial Variations (Bloodaxe Books, […]
Desmond Graham
Born in 1940, Desmong Graham was educated at Leeds University. He is the leading authority on Keith Douglas having written Keith Douglas 1920-44: A Biography and edited The Complete Poems and Alamein to Zem Zem (Faber) as well as Keith Douglas: A Prose Miscellany and Keith Douglas: The Letters (Carcanet). A poet himself, he has […]
Annemarie Austin
Annemarie Austin was born in Devon. She won the Cheltenham Literature Festival Poetry Competition in 1980, and her first collection, The Weather Coming (1987), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her most recent work is Track (Bloodaxe, 2014).
Ian Caws
Ian Caws has published 11 collections of poetry since 1975, the latest of which is The Canterbury Road. In 1988, he was runner up in the National Poetry Competition, having been a prizewinner the year before.
John Sewell
John Sewell is the author of the collection Bursting the Clouds (Cape Poetry, 1998).
M.R. Peacocke
M.R. Peacocke is an English poet, born in Reading, Berkshire. She was the recipient of the Cholmondeley Award in 2005, ands her most recent work is *Caliban Dancing* (Shoestring, 2013).
Maureen Wilkinson
Maureen Wilkinson was born in London in 1944. She studied fine art at Goldsmiths College, London and is the author of the poetry collection The Blindman goes from A to B (Peterloo, 1990).
Jon Dressel
Jon Dressel was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He has won prizes in major poetry competitions in both the USA and Britain such as the British National Competition 1989 and Cardiff International Competition, 1990.
Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown’s poem, ‘the borders of our beings’ was commended in the Cape Farewell/Poetry Society’s SWITCH: Youth Poetics Year 2.
Pratyusha Prakash
Pratyusha Prakash’s poem, ‘Your Story’ was commended in the Cape Farewell/Poetry Society’s SWITCH: Youth Poetics Year 2.
Alex Greenberg
Alex Greenberg’s poem, ‘Barrier Breaker’ was commended in the Cape Farewell/Poetry Society’s SWITCH: Youth Poetics Year 2. He is also a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Cape Farewell Fire and Ice’ poetry challenge.
Nasim Luczaj
Nasim Luczaj’s poem ‘a riveting gift’ was commended in the Cape Farewell/Poetry Society’s SWITCH: Youth Poetics Year 2.
Daniel Bond
Daniel Bond’s poem ‘Instinctive Thinking’ was commended in the Cape Farewell/Poetry Society’s SWITCH: Youth Poetics Year 2.
Natasha Keary
Natasha Keary’s poem ‘Moon’ was commended in the Cape Farewell/Poetry Society’s SWITCH: Youth Poetics Year 2. She is a winner of Young Poets Network challenges including ‘Censorship’ and the Cape Farwell ‘Vanishing’ challenge.
Yongyu Chen
Yongyu Chen was a runner up in the Cape Farewell challenge on the theme of Vanishing with the poem, ‘how to disappear in the city in the rain.’
Alice Guest
Alice Guest’s poem ‘Tapestry’ was commended in the Cape Farewell/Poetry Society’s SWITCH: Youth Poetics Year 2. She is also a winner of the Young Poets Network ‘Cape Farewell Moving’ poetry challenge.
Mary Anne Clarke
Mary Anne Clarke often appears on the Poetry Society’s Young Poets’ Network, and has won their Cape Farewell and Edith Sitwell prizes. She has been commended for the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, Ledbury and Basil Bunting awards, and longlisted for the Christopher Tower Prize. Mary Anne was a Young Producer for both […]
Serena Cooke
Serena Cooke has won numerous poetry competitions and has been published by Miracle E-Zine, Fur-Lined Ghettos, the Young Poets Network and performed her poem ‘Green Tears’ at the Cape Farewell SWITCH celebration evening. Serena was a Young Producer for both the Southbank Centre and the Poetry Society National Poetry Day Live 2014. She is also […]
Jamie Uy
Jamie Uy was a Commended Foyle Young Poet of the Year 2012 and went on to be one of the winning poets in the Cape Farewell/Poetry Society’s SWITCH Challenge in 2014.
Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield was born in 1953. She is the author of several collections of verse, including Come, Thief (2011) and After (2006), which was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. Her poems ‘Red Wine is Fined by Adding Broken Eggshells’ and ‘The Dark Hour’ were featured in the Spring 2012 issue of The Poetry […]
Vladislav Khodasevich
Vladislav Khodasevich was an influential Russian poet and literary critic. His poem ‘The Dactyls’ appears in the Autumn 2010 issue of The Poetry Review.
Aviva Dautch
Aviva Dautch was born in Salford in 1978 and now lives in London where she works as a Creative Educator for The British Library. Her poems ‘A Letter to Emily Dickinson’ and ‘True Voice’ were published in the Summer 2011 issue of Poetry Review. She was also shortlisted for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2011.
Penelope Shuttle
Penelope Shuttle’s Unsent: New and Selected Poems 1980-2012 was published by Bloodaxe in 2012. Recent pamphlets include: In The Snowy Air (Templar, 2014), joint winner of the 2014 iOTA Shot Pamphlet Award; heath, with john greening (Nine Arches, 2016); and Four Portions of Everything on the Menu for M’sieur Monet! (Indigo Dreams, 2016). Her most recent […]
John Burnside
John Burnside was born in 1955 and is the author of eleven collections of poetry and five works of fiction. Burnside has achieved wide critical acclaim, winning the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2000 for The Asylum Dance which was also shortlisted for the Forward and T S Eliot prizes, and winning the 2011 T S […]
Jamie McKendrick
Jamie McKendrick is a poet, translator and art writer for publications such as Modern Painters. Born in Liverpool, he lived for some years in Italy. His Selected Poems was published by Faber in 2016, drawing from his six collections of poetry: from 1991’s debut The Sirocco Room to Out There (2012, and winner of the […]
Richard Kerridge
Richard Kerridge’s poem, ‘The Seasonal World: The Season Of The Newts’ was featured in the Winter 2011 issue of The Poetry Review.
Marianne Boruch
Marianne Boruch’s poem ‘First’ was featured in the Winter 2011 issue of The Poetry Review. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Book of Hours (2011).
Ghassan Zaqtan
Ghassan Zaqtan is a Palestinian poet writing primarily in Arabic. His poem, ‘Neighbouring Sounds’ was featured in the Spring 2012 issue of The Poetry Review. His most recent collection is Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me (Yale University Press 2012, translated by Fady Joudah).
A.B. Jackson
Andrew Buchanan Jackson was born in Glasgow in 1965 and raised in Bramhall, Cheshire. His review, ‘Under the Limit’ was featured in the Autumn 2014 issue of The Poetry Review. His second full collection, The Wilderness Party, will be published by Bloodaxe in September 2015.
Naomi Foyle
Naomi Foyle is the author of three poetry collections: The Night Pavilion, a Autumn 2008 Poetry Book Society Recommendation and The World Cup (2010) both from Waterloo Press, and Adamantine (Red Hen/Pighog Press, US/UK, 2019). She has also published several pamphlets, including Red Hot & Bothered (Lansdowne Press, 2003), winner of the 2008 Apples and Snakes ‘The […]
Declan Ryan
Declan Ryan’s poem, ‘From Alun Lewis’ was featured in the Autumn 2012 issue of The Poetry Review. His poems and reviews have also been published in Poetry London, The Rialto, and elsewhere. He was also named one of the Faber New Poets in 2014.

Gerry Cambridge
Gerry Cambridge is a poet, essayist and print designer, with a background in natural history photography and typography. He is based near Glasgow. His recent books include Notes for Lighting a Fire (HappenStance Press, 2012), praised by TLS for its “deeply personal Scottish resonance”, and Aves (Essence Press, 2007), a book of prose poems about […]
Tolu Ogunlesi
Tolu Ogunlesi lives in Lagos, Nigeria, where he works as Features Editor for NEXT, a daily newspaper. His poem, ‘(at)TEXT’ was featured in the Winter 2012 issue of The Poetry Review. His poetry has also appeared in Wasafiri, London Magazine, Sable and Magma.
Dorothea Smartt
Dorothea Smartt’s poem, ‘Headway’ was published in the Winter 2012 issue of The Poetry Review. Her collections include, Connecting Medium and Ship Shape. Her latest collection is a chapbook from Peepal Tree Press (2013) entitled Reader, I Married Him & other queer goings-on.
Katie Hale
Katie Hale’s poem, ‘Secret’ was featured in the Winter 2012 issue of The Poetry Review. She has twice won the Anne Pierson Award, and in 2010 won the Ver Poets Young Writers’ Prize. In 2011/12, she was a Barbican Young Poet.
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran is the author of Antes y despues del Bronx. His poems ‘Honig’ and ‘How to Make Love to a Dying Rican’ were featured in the Winter 2012 issue of The Poetry Review.
Angel Gonzalez
Angel Gonzalez’s poem, ‘Zero City’ was featured in the Spring 2013 issue of The Poetry Review.
Miranda Yates
Miranda Yates’s poem, ‘Chocolates for Colonel Gaddafi’ was featured in the Spring 2013 issue of The Poetry Review.
Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents and spent her teenage years living in North Wales. She lives in Gravesend, Kent. In 2004 she was named as one of the Poetry Book Society’s ‘Next Generation’ poets. In 2010 she was appointed Canterbury Poet Laureate. Her poem ‘The Doll’s House’ was featured […]
Amaan Hyder
Amaan Hyder’s poem, ‘At Hajj’ was featured in the Spring 2013 issue of The Poetry Review.
Mara Bergman
Mara Bergman’s first collection, The Tailor’s Three Sons and Other New York Poems Seren (2015), won the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition. Crossing Into Tamil Nadu, published in 2016, was a Templar Poetry Portfolio winner. Her first full collection, The Disappearing Room, is forthcoming from Arc Publications. Mara is also the author of more than twenty books […]
D.M. Black
David Macleod Black was born in South Africa in 1941 and moved to Scotland in 1950. He has published four collections of poetry and a handful of pamphlets in the 1960s and 1970s. He has also published on psychoanalytic topics, most recently Why Things Matter: the place of values in science, psychoanalysis and religion (Routledge […]
Claire Crowther
Claire Crowther’s poem ‘The Apology, Coincidence of Bodies’ appeared in the Summer 2013 Issue of The Poetry Review. She is poet in residence at the Royal Mint Museum during 2014-2015.
A.E. Stallings
A.E. Stallings was born in 1968 and currently resides in Athens, Greece. Her latest collection, Olives was published in 2012, and her poem ‘The Last Carousel, Aftermath: Battle of Plataea (Out of Herodotus)’ appeared in the summer 2013 issue of The Poetry Review.
Valeria Ferraro
Valeria Ferraro’s poem ‘A Blaze becomes Fire’ appeared in the Summer 2013 issue of The Poetry Review. Her most recent books are wasurenamu and zoology.
Jennie Feldman
Jennie Feldman was born in South Africa, grew up in London and studied French at Oxford. Her first collection of poems, The Lost Notebook, was published in 2005, as was her selection and translation from Jacques Réda’s poems, Treading Lightly. Her latest collection, Swift appeared in 2012.
Rachael Allen
Rachael Allen was born in 1989 in Cornwall. Her poetry has appeared in The Best British Poetry 2013 (Salt), Poetry London, The Sunday Times, The White Review online, Stop Sharpening Your Knives 5, Dear World and Everyone In It (Bloodaxe), Night & Day (Chatto & Windus) and Five Dials. She was selected as one of […]
Gerry Wells
Gerry Wells has published his poetry, fiction and non-fiction in a wide range of periodicals, and has also broadcast on BBC radio programmes. In 2009 he published a memoir via The History Press. His latest work is Kicking the Hornet’s Nest, a book of short stories published in 2012.
George Mackay Brown
George Mackay Brown, poet and novelist, was born in Stromness, Orkney, in 1921. His books include The Storm (1954), Loaves and Fishes (1959), The Year of the Whale (1965), Fishermen with Ploughs (1971), Greenvoe (1972), Magnus (1973), Winterfold (1976), Time in a Red Coat (1984), The Wreck of the Archangel (1989), Selected Poems 1954-1983 (1991), […]
Hugo Williams
Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on The London Magazine from 1961 to 1970, since when he has earned his living as a journalist and travel writer. Billy’s Rain won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 1999. His Collected Poems was published by Faber in 2002. Recent collections include […]
Peter Reading
Peter Reading (1946-2011) was born in Liverpool. After studying painting at Liverpool College of Art, he worked as a schoolteacher in Liverpool (1967-68) and at Liverpool College of Art, where he taught art history (1968-70). He then worked for 22 years as a weighbridge operator at an animal feed mill in Shropshire. He lived for […]
James Lasdun
James Lasdun writes novels, short stories and poetry. His work has been adapted for film by Bernardo Bertolucci in Besieged and for the Sundance award-winning Sunday. He has been long-listed for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the LA Times, T S Eliot and Forward prizes in poetry, and was the winner of the inaugural UK/BBC […]
Michael Laskey
Michael Laskey was born in 1944 and educated at Gresham’s School and St John’s College, Cambridge, where he read English. He subsequently worked as a teacher in secondary and further education in Spain and England for ten years. He has published three pamphlets – Cloves of Garlic (1988), which won the Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition, […]
Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Fiona Pitt-Kethley was born in 1954. She studied at Chelsea School of Art before becoming become a full-time writer. Her Selected Poems was published by Salt in 2008.
Julian May
Julian May was born in 1955 in Plymouth and grew up in Cornwall. He has published short stories, radio plays and a poetry collection – The Earliest Memory (1987) – and has worked as a BBC radio producer for 25 years. He was responsible for Radio 4’s contribution to National Poetry Day for many years, […]
Michael Donaghy
Michael Donaghy was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1954. He moved to London in 1985, where he worked as a teacher and traditional Irish musician. His collections include Shibboleth (Oxford University Press, 1988), winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and Errata (OUP, 1993). These books were […]
Adele Geras
Adele Geras is an award-winning writer for young children and adults. Her prizes for poetry include the HH Wingate Jewish Quarterly Poetry Award and the Smith/Doorstop Poetry Pamphlet Award jointly with Pauline Stainer.
Rodney Pybus
Rodney Pybus was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1938 and educated at Cambridge, where he read Classics and English. He was for many years a co-editor of the literary quarterly Stand (founded by the poet Jon Silkin in 1952), and has given readings of his poetry widely in Britain and internationally. Awards and prizes […]
James Sutherland-Smith
James Sutherland-Smith was born in Aberdeen in 1948 and was educated at Leeds University. His poetry collections include A Singer from Sabiya (1979), Naming of the Arrow (1980), At the Skin Resort (1999) and Mouth (2014). He has published two Carcanet collections, the most recent of which is Popeye in Belgrade (2008). James Sutherland-Smith and […]
Peter Daniels
Peter Daniels’s publications include Counting Eggs (Mulfran Press, 2012) and translations of Vladislav Khodasevich (Angel Classics, 2013). His pamphlets include Mr. Luczinski Makes a Move (HappenStance, 2011) and The Ballad of Captain Rigby (Personal Pronoun, 2013). He has won several prizes: first prize in the 2010 TLS Poetry Competition, the 2010 Ver Poets Competition, the […]

Yvonne Green
The poet Yvonne Green is a British-born Jewess of Boukharian extraction. She read law at the LSE and was called to the Bar in both New York and London. Her pamphlet, Boukhara (2007), won The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition. She has published 4 full-length collections including; The Assay (2010), Honoured (2015) and Jam & […]
Ian McMillan
Ian McMillan is poet-in-residence for The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC. He presents The Verb every week on BBC R3 and he is a regular on BBC Breakfast, Coast, Pick of the Week, You & Yours, Last Word and The Arts Show. He’s been a castaway on Desert Island Discs. Previously he was resident […]
Gwyneth Lewis
Gwyneth Lewis was born in 1959 in Cardiff, Wales. She writes both in Welsh, her first language, and in English, and her published poetry includes Parables and Faxes (1995), which won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize, Zero Gravity (1998), shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), and Y Llofrudd Iaith […]
Chris Agee
Chris Agee is a poet, essayist and anthologist. He attended Harvard University and since 1979 has lived in Ireland. He is the author of three books of poems, In the New Hampshire Woods (The Dedalus Press, 1992), First Light (The Dedalus Press, 2003) and Next to Nothing (Salt, 2009), as well as the editor of […]
Martin Figura
Martin Figura was born in Liverpool and lives in Norwich. His collections include The Little Book of Harm (Firewater Press, 2000), Ahem (Eggbox, 2005) and Whistle (Arrowhead, 2010), which deals with the murder in 1966 of his mother, June, by his father Frank. It was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in […]
Roger McGough
Roger McGough, poet, playwright, children’s writer and broadcaster, was awarded an OBE for services to poetry in 1997 and a CBE in 2004. He is the President of the Poetry Society. McGough has written over 50 books; his latest poetry collection is As Far as I Know (Penguin, 2013). The Mersey Sound (Penguin, 1967), the […]
Kaite O’Reilly
Kaite O’Reilly has won various awards for her work, including the Peggy Ramsay Award for YARD (Bush Theatre, London), Manchester Evening News Best Play of 2004 for Perfect (Contact Theatre) and was one of the winners of the 2009 International Susan Smith Blackburn Award for The Almond and the Seahorse (Sherman Cymru). Her new version […]
Wendy Cope
Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent in 1945 and read History at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Her poetry collections include Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986), Serious Concerns (1992) and If I Don’t Know (2001), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award. In 1998 she was the listeners’ choice in a BBC Radio […]
Warsan Shire
Shire was born in 1988 in Kenya. Her verse first gained notice after her poem ‘For Women Who Are Difficult to Love’ went viral. In 2011, she also released Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth, a poetry pamphlet published by flipped eye. In October 2013, Shire was also selected from a shortlist of six […]
Valérie Rouzeau
Valérie Rouzeau was born in 1967 in Burgundy, France and now lives in a small town near Paris. She has published a dozen collections of poems, including Pas revoir (l’Idée Bleue, 1999), Va où (Le Temps qu’il Fait, 2002) and more recently Apothicaria (Wigwam, 2007) and Mange-Matin (l’Idée Bleue, 2008). She received the Prix Guillaume […]
Toby Martinez de las Rivas
Toby Martinez de las Rivas was born in 1978, and he grew up in Somerset. He won an Eric Gregory award in 2005 and the Andrew Waterhouse award from New Writing North in 2008. His pamphlet was published by Faber as part of the Faber New Poets scheme and in 2014 his first full collection, […]
Susan Wicks
Poet and novelist Susan Wicks was born in Kent, England, in 1947. She is the author of several collections of poetry including Singing Underwater (1992), which won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize, and The Clever Daughter (1996), which was shortlisted for both the T S Eliot and Forward Prizes, and she was included in the […]
Stephen Watts
Stephen Watts was born in London in 1952. He was a Hawthornden Fellow in 1993 and was twice awarded second prize in the UK National Poetry Competition. His latest work, Ancient Sunlight, was published in 2014.
Stephen Knight
Stephen Knight was born in Swansea in 1960. His books of poems include Flowering Limbs (1993), Dream City Cinema (1996), Sardines (2004) and The Prince of Wails (2012). His novel, Mr Schnitzel, was published in 2000. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 1987 and won the National Poetry Competition in 1992. He won the […]
Sophie Mayer
Winner of a 2004 Eric Gregory award, Sophie Mayer is the author of Her Various Scalpels (Shearsman, 2009) and Marsh Fear/Fen Tiger (Salt, 2002, with Leo Mellor). She currently teaches at King’s College, London, for English PEN and the Bishopsgate Institute, and sells books at Clerkenwell Tales.
Sheila Hillier
Sheila Hillier began writing poetry in 2001, and since then her poems have been published in The Interpreter’s House and Ambit. She was commended in the National Poetry Competition in 2006 and she won the Hamish Canham Poetry Prize in 2009. Her first collection, A Quechua Confession Manual, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2010.
Sheenagh Pugh
Sheenagh Pugh was born in Birmingham in 1950. She is the author of ten poetry collections and two novels. She is a twice winner of both the Bridport Prize (2003 and 1997) and the Cardiff International Poetry Prize (1984 and 1988). Other accolades include the Forward Prize for best individual poem in 1997, the Wales […]
Sharon Morris
Sharon Morris was born in west Wales and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her poems have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Tying the Song (Enitharmon, 2000), the first anthology from the Poetry School, and In the Company of Poets (Hearing Eye, 2003). Her latest collection, Gospel Oak, was published in […]
Selima Hill
Born in Hampstead in 1945 into a family of painters, Hill studied at Cambridge and now lives on the Dorset coast. She is the author of twenty poetry collections, most recently People Who Like Meatballs (Bloodaxe, 2012), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism (Bloodaxe, 2014). Her forthcoming […]
Sean Borodale
Sean Borodale is one of 2014’s Next Generation Poets. He is currently Creative Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. His second collection, Human Work (a poet’s cookbook) will be out with Jonathan Cape in February 2015. He was selected as a Granta New Poet in 2012, and his debut collection Bee Journal was shortlisted for the […]
Sarah Wardle
Sarah Wardle was born in London in 1969. She won The Poetry Review’s New Poet of the Year award in 1999 and her first collection, Fields Away (Bloodaxe Books, 2003), was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection prize. Her latest collection, Beyond, was published by Bloodaxe in 2014.
Sarah Roby
Sarah Roby’s first collection, The Naming of Girls (Templar Poetry, 2015), includes poems featured in The Poetry Review and shortlisted for the Troubadour International Prize. Her pamphlet, This Afternoon and I (Templar Poetry, 2013), won the national iSHOT Award. Sarah is a recipient of a writer’s award from Arts Council England. She also secured a […]
Sarah Maguire
Sarah Maguire was born in West London in 1957. She has edited two anthologies, A Green Thought in a Green Shade: Poetry in the Garden (2000), for The Poetry Society, and Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse (2001), a unique selection of seven centuries of poetry in English concerned with plants and flowers. […]

Sarah Howe
Sarah Howe was born in Hong Kong in 1983. She won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2010. Her first collection, Loop of Jade, is published by Chatto & Windus in May 2015. She is the founding editor of Prac Crit, a journal of poetry and criticism. Her poems have appeared widely in British […]
Ruth Fainlight
Ruth Fainlight was born in New York City in 1931. Her 1997 collection, Sugar-Paper Blue was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award, and her most recent work, New & Collected Poems, was published in 2010. She lives in London and was married to the writer Alan Sillitoe who died in 2010.
Ruby Robinson
Ruby Robinson was born in Manchester, England. She studied English literature at the University of East Anglia and is a graduate of the Sheffield Hallam University Writing MA.
Ros Barber
Ros Barber was born in Washington DC, and is the author of verse novel The Marlowe Papers. The Marlowe Papers was awarded the Desmond Elliott Prize, jointly awarded the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award, and long-listed for the Women’s Prize (formerly Orange Prize) for fiction. She has written three collections of poetry; the most […]
Robert Saxton
Robert Saxton was born in Nottingham 1952. He is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent being Hesiod’s Calendar (Carcanet, 2010). In 2001 he won the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association’s poetry prize for ‘The Nightingale Broadcasts’. He has won commendations in recent years in the National Poetry Competition, the Poetry London Competition and the […]
Richard Scott
Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies. He has been a winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, a Jerwood/Arvon Poetry Mentee and a member of the Aldeburgh 8. His pamphlet Wound (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016. His debut collection, Soho (Faber, […]
Maureen Duffy
Maureen Duffy was born in 1933 in Worthing, Sussex. She is a contemporary British poet, playwright and novelist. She has also published a literary biography of Aphra Behn, and The Erotic World of Faery a book-length study of eroticism in faery fantasy literature. Maureen is the author of 31 published works of fiction, including 6 […]
Matthew Francis
Matthew Francis is the author of five poetry collections, Blizzard, Dragons, Whereabouts, Mandeville and Muscovy , a novel, WHOM, and a collection of short stories, Singing a Man to Death. He is also the editor of W.S. Graham’s New Collected Poems and author of a study of Graham, Where the People Are. He lives in […]
Matthew Dickman
Matthew Dickman was born on August 20, 1975 in Portland, Oregon. His first full-length collection, All American Poem, won the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry. Dickman’s awards include the May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College, the 2009 Oregon Book […]
Matthew Caley
Matthew Caley’s Thirst (Slow Dancer, 1999) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Since then he has been Poet-in-Residence at the Poetry Society café and commended (3rd and 2nd) in separate National Poetry Competitions. His second full-length collection, The Scene of My Former Triumph (Wrecking Ball Press, 2005), was followed by a […]
Martyn Crucefix
Martyn Crucefix was born in 1956 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. He has won numerous prizes including a major Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship. He has published 5 collections of poetry, including Hurt, published by Enitharmon in 2010.
Marian Allen
Marian Allen was born in 1892. She is best remembered for a sequence of sonnets known popularly as ‘The Wind on the Downs’, after the title of the small 63 page book of poems she published in 1918. The book (published by I.A. Richards) also contained the poem ‘The Raiders’ which describes early war-time aviation, and was written just a few […]
Malika Booker
Malika Booker is a poet and multi-disciplinary artist of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage. Her writing collective Malika’s Poetry Kitchen has had a major impact on the British Poetic landscape. Booker is currently Creative Writing Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and the recipient of a Slate Award to research and develop her new play. Malika’s poetry […]
Maitreyabandhu
Maitreyabandhu was born Ian Johnson in 1961, in Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire. He has won the Keats-Shelley Prize, the Basil Bunting Award, the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, and the Ledbury Festival Poetry Competition. His first pamphlet The Bond won the Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition (2010) and was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award. Vita Brevis, his […]
Lorraine Mariner
Lorraine Mariner was born in 1974, grew up in Upminster and attended Huddersfield University and University College. She works at the Poetry Library, Southbank Centre. Her pamphlet Bye For Now was published by The Rialto in 2005 and a collection entitled Furniture was published in 2009. In 2005 she also received an Arts Council Writer’s […]
Liane Strauss
Liane Strauss was born in Queens, New York, and grew up in Bergen County, New Jersey. She is the author of Leaving Eden (Salt Publishing, 2010) and Frankie, Alfredo, (Donut Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals in the US and the UK, including Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Georgia Review, […]
Kim Moore
Kim Moore was born in 1981 and lives and works in Cumbria. Her first full length collection The Art of Falling (Seren) won the Geoffrey Faber memorial prize in 2017. She won a New Writing North Award in 2014, an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2012. Her first pamphlet […]
Kearan Williams
Kearan Williams was born in North Wales in 1960. Her recent work has been published in nthposition, Poetry Wales, Seam, and Smiths Knoll.
Kim Addonizio
Kim Addonizio was born on 31 July 1954 in Bethesda, Maryland. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, as well as the 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship. She was given the 2000 National Book Award Prize for Tell Me, as well as the 2000 Pushcart Prize for ‘Aliens.’ Her collections include What is This […]
Kayo Chingonyi
Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987, moving to the UK in 1993. He is a fellow of the Complete Works programme for diversity and quality in British Poetry and the author of two pamphlets, Some Bright Elegance (Salt, 2012) and The Colour of James Brown’s Scream (Akashic, 2016). Kayo has been invited to read […]
Kathryn Simmonds
Kathryn Simmonds was born in 1972. Her poetry collection Sunday at the Skin Launderette won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. In 2013 she became the first Poet-in-Residence at The Charles Causley Trust and published her […]
Kathleen Jamie
Jamie was born in 1962 in Scotland. In 1994, she was named as one of the ‘new generation poets’. She became Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Stirling in 2011. Collections include The Queen of Sheba (Bloodaxe, 1994), The Tree House (Picador, 2004), which won the Forward Prize for Poetry in 2004, and […]
Katharine Towers
Katharine Towers was born in London in 1961 and read modern languages at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has an MA in writing from Newcastle University. Her pamphlet Slow Time was published by Mews Press in 2005 and her poems have appeared in publications including Mslexia and The North. Her debut collection The Floating Man […]