This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. Main country of residence as a poet (not place of birth): A = Australia, Ag = Antigua, B = Barbados, Bo = Bosnia, C = Canada, Ch = Chile, Cu = Cuba, D = Dominica, De = Denmark, E = England, F = France, G = Germany, Ga = Gambia, Gd = Grenada, Gh = Ghana/Gold Coast, Gr = Greece, Gu = Guyana/British Guiana, Gy = Guernsey, HK = Hong Kong, In = India, IoM = Isle of Man, Is = Israel, Ir = Ireland, It = Italy, J = Jamaica, Je = Jersey, Jp = Japan, K = Kenya, L = Lebanon, M = Malta, Me = Mexico, Mo = Montserrat, Ne = Nepal, Nf = Newfoundland (colony), Ni = Nigeria, NI = Northern Ireland, Nt = Netherlands, NZ = New Zealand, P = Pakistan, Pa = Palestine, Ph = Philippines, PI = Pitcairn Islands, RE = Russian Empire, S = Scotland, SA = South Africa, Se = Serbia, SL = Saint Lucia, SLe = Sierra Leone, SLk = Sri Lanka, So = Somalia, Sw = Sweden, T = Trinidad and Tobago, US = United States/preceding colonies, W = Wales, Z = Zimbabwe/Rhodesia

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Jonathan Aaron Jonathan Aaron is an American poet and author of four poetry collections: ''Second Sight Sight, Corridor, Journey to the Lost City,'' and ''Just About Anything.'' Life and education Aaron was born and raised in Massachusetts. He has a B.A. fro ...

(born 1941, US) *

Chris Abani Christopher Abani (born 27 December 1966) is a Nigerian American author. He says he is part of a new generation of Nigerian writers working to convey to an English-speaking audience the experience of those born and raised in "that troubled Afr ...

(born 1966, Ni/US) * Henry Abbey (1842–1911, US) *

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (September 22, 1872 – June 4, 1958) was an American writer. She was a frequent contributor to '' The Ladies' Home Journal''. Early life Eleanor Hallowell Abbott was born on September 22, 1872, in Cambridge, Massa ...

(1872–1958, US) *

J. H. M. Abbott John Henry Macartney Abbott (26 December,1874 – 12 August,1953) was an Australia, Australian novelist and poet who was born in Haydonton, Murrurundi, New South Wales in 1874. Early life Abbott was the eldest son of son of (Sir) Joseph Pal ...

(1874–1953, A) *

Lascelles Abercrombie Lascelles Abercrombie, (9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the " Dymock poets". After the First World War he worked as a professor of English literature in a number of English universities, ...

(1881–1938, E) * Arthur Talmage Abernethy (1872–1956, US) *

Mark Abley Mark Abley (born 13 May 1955) is a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and nonfiction writer. His poetry and some of his nonfiction books express his interest in endangered languages. In November 2022 Abley was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the Un ...

(born 1955, C) * James Aboud (born 1956, T) *

Lionel Abrahams Lionel Abrahams (11 April 1928 – 31 May 2004) was a South African novelist, poet, editor, critic, essayist and publisher. He was born in Johannesburg, where he lived his entire life. He was born with cerebral palsy and had to use a wheelchai ...

(1928–2004, SA) * Sam Abrams (born 1935, US) * Seth Abramson (born 1976, US) *

Dannie Abse Daniel Abse Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE FRSL (22 September 1923 – 28 September 2014) was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years. Early years ...

(1923–2014, W) *

Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe (; born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature. His first novel ''Things Fall Apart'' ( ...

(1930–2013, Ni/US) * Catherine Obianuju Acholonu (1951–2014, Ni) *

Kathy Acker Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 isputed– November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, critic, performance artist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that deal ...

(1947–1997, US) *

Diane Ackerman Diane Ackerman (born October 7, 1948) is an American poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her books and films. Education and career Ackerman received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Arts, Mas ...

(born 1948, US) *

Duane Ackerson Duane Ackerson (October 17, 1942 – April 19, 2020) was an American writer of speculative poetry and fiction. Не taught at the University of Oregon, then headed the creative program at Idaho State University. He lived in Salem, Oregon, where ...

(1942–2020, US) *

Milton Acorn Milton James Rhode Acorn (March 30, 1923 – August 20, 1986), nicknamed ''The People's Poet'' by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright. Early life He was born in Prince Edward Island, and grew up in Charlottetown. He joined the ...

(1923–1986, C) *

Harold Acton Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in C ...

(1904–1994, E/It) *

Gilbert Adair Gilbert Adair (29 December 19448 December 2011) was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic, and journalist.Stuart Jeffries and Ronald BerganObituary: Gilbert Adair ''The Guardian'', 9 December 2011. He was critically most famous for the "fien ...

(1944–2011, S/F) *

Virginia Hamilton Adair Virginia Hamilton Adair (February 28, 1913, New York City – September 16, 2004, Claremont, California) was an American poet who became famous later in life with the 1996 publication of ''Ants on the Melon''. Background Mary Virginia Hamilton w ...

(1919–2004, US) *

Helen Adam Helen Adam (December 2, 1909 in Glasgow, Scotland – September 19, 1993 in New York City) was a Scottish poet, collagist and photographer who was part of a literary movement contemporaneous to the Beat Generation that occurred in San Francisco d ...

(1909–1993, S/US) *

Jean Adam Jean Adam (or Adams) (30 April 1704 – 3 April 1765) was a Scottish poet from the labouring classes; her best-known work is "There's Nae Luck Aboot The Hoose". In 1734 she published a volume of her poetry entitled ''Miscellany poems'', but the ...

(1704–1765, S) *

Arthur Henry Adams Arthur Henry Adams (6 June 1872 – 4 March 1936) was a journalist and author. He started his career in New Zealand, though he spent most of it in Australia, and for a short time lived in China and London. Biography Arthur Adams was born in La ...

(1872–1936, NZ/A) *

Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humorist, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the ...

(1952–2001, E) *

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before Presidency of John Adams, his presidency, he was a leader of ...

(1704–1740, US) *

Léonie Adams Léonie Fuller Adams (December 9, 1899 – June 27, 1988) was an American poet. She was appointed the seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1948. Biography Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in ...

(1899–1988, US) *

Ryan Adams David Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is an American Rock music, rock and Country music, country singer-songwriter. He has released 30 studio albums and three as a former member of Whiskeytown. In 2000, Adams left Whiskeytown and released ...

(born 1974, US) *

Gil Adamson Gillian "Gil" Adamson (born January 1, 1961) is a Canadian writer. She won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2008 for her 2007 novel ''The Outlander''. Biography Adamson's first published work was ''Primitive'', a volume of poetry, in 1 ...

(born 1961, C) * Robert Adamson (1943–2022, A) *

Fleur Adcock Fleur Adcock (10 February 1934 – 10 October 2024) was a New Zealand poet and editor. Of English and Northern Irish ancestry, Adcock lived much of her life in England. She is well-represented in New Zealand poetry anthologies, was awarded an ...

(1934–2024, NZ/E) *

Joseph Addison Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 May 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with w ...

(1672–1719, E) *

Kim Addonizio Kim Addonizio (born July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist. Life Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie (born Addonizio). She briefly atte ...

(born 1954, US) *

Bayo Adebowale Bayo Adebowale (born 6 June 1944) is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, critic, librarian and founder of the African Heritage Library and Cultural Centre, Adeyipo, Ibadan Oyo State Early life and education He was born on 6 June 1944 in Ibada ...

(born 1944, Ni) * Toyin Adewale-Gabriel (born 1969, Ni) *

Opal Palmer Adisa Opal Palmer Adisa (born 6 November 1954) is a Jamaican and American poet, novelist, performance artist and educator. Anthologized in more than 400 publications, she has been a regular performer of her work internationally. Professor Emeritus at ...

(born 1954, J) *

Tatamkhulu Afrika Ismail Joubert (7 December 1920 – 23 December 2002), commonly known as Tatamkhulu Afrika, which is Xhosa for ''Grandfather Africa'', was a South African poet and writer. His first novel, ''Broken Earth'' was published when he was seventeen ( ...

(1920–2002, SA) *

John Agard John Agard FRSL (born 21 June 1949) is a Guyanese-born British playwright, poet and children's writer. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

(born 1949, Gu) *

Sandra Agard Sandra Agard Hon. FRSL is a British storyteller, writer, literary consultant and cultural historian. She is a published author of short stories and poetry, and for more than 40 years has performed her work, including plays, within the UK as well ...

(living, E) *

Patience Agbabi Patience Agbabi FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet and performer who emphasizes the spoken word.. Although her poetry addresses contemporary themes, it often makes use of formal constraints, including traditional poetic forms. She has described ...

(born 1965, W/E) *

Deborah Ager Deborah Ager is an American poet, essayist, and editor. Life Deborah Ager founded the poetry magazine known as ''32 poems'' or ''32 Poems Magazine'' in 2003 with the poet John Poch. She was educated at the University of Maryland (B.A.) and the U ...

born 1978, US) * Kelli Russell Agodon (living, US) *

Allan Ahlberg Janet Ahlberg (21 October 1944 – 15 November 1994; née Hall) and Allan Ahlberg (born 5 June 1938) were a British married couple who created many children's books, including picture books that regularly appear at the top of "most popular" li ...

(1938–1994, E) * Ai (1947–2010, US) *

Ama Ata Aidoo Ama Ata Aidoo (23 March 1942 — 31 May 2023) was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was a Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration. Her first play, '' The Dil ...

(1940–2023, Gh) *

Conrad Aiken Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short st ...

(1889–1973, US) *

Douglas Ainslie Douglas Ainslie (1865 – 27 March 1948), was a Scottish poet, translator, critic and diplomat. He was born in Paris, France, and educated at Eton College and at Balliol and Exeter Colleges, Oxford. A contributor to the Yellow Book, he met and bef ...

(1865–1948, S) *

Thomas Aird Thomas Aird (28 August 180225 April 1876) was a Scottish poet, best known for his 1830 narrative poem '' The Captive of Fez''. Early life and education Aird was born in 1802 at Bowden, Roxburghshire. His parents were James Aird, a builder, an ...

(1802–1876, S) *

Adam Aitken Adam Aitken (born 1960) is an Australian poet. Early life and education Australian writer Adam Aitken was born in London in 1960. He spent his early childhood with relatives in Thailand, and was educated at a convent in Malaysia, then a school ...

(born 1960, A) * Neil Aitken (born 1974, C) *

Funso Aiyejina Funso Aiyejina (1 January 1949 – 1 July 2024) was a Nigerian poet, short story writer, playwright and academic. He was Dean of Humanities and Education (until his retirement in 2014) and Professor Emeritus at the University of the West Indies. ...

(1949–2024, Ni) *

Tolu Ajayi Toluwalogo Ajayi (born 1946) is a Nigerian poet and writer of fiction. Biography Born in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Ajayi was educated in Nigeria and the United Kingdom; in the latter country, he qualified in 1970 as a physician at the University of L ...

(born 1946, Ni) *

Mark Akenside Mark Akenside (9 November 1721 – 23 June 1770) was an English poet and physician. Biography Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a butcher. He was slightly lame all his life from a wound he received as a child f ...

(1721–1770, E) *

Salman Akhtar Salman Akhtar (born 31 July 1946) is an Indian-American psychoanalyst practicing in the United States. He is an author and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Early life Salman Akhtar was b ...

(born 1946, In/US) * Tolu Akinyemi (living, Ni) *

Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c. 1698–1770), legal name Alexander MacDonald, or, in Gaelic Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, was a Scottish war poet, satirist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He was born at Dalilea into the Scottish nobility () an ...

(c. 1695–1770, S) *

Jordie Albiston Jordie Albiston (30 September 1961 – 28 February 2022) was an Australian poet. Early life Jordie Albiston grew up in Melbourne, the second of four children. She studied music at the Victorian College of the Arts before completing a docto ...

(1961–2022, A) * Ammiel Alcalay (born 1956, US) *

Amos Bronson Alcott Amos Bronson Alcott (; November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and av ...

(1799–1888, US) *

Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott (; November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel ''Little Women'' (1868) and its sequels ''Good Wives'' (1869), ''Little Men'' (1871), and ''Jo's Boys'' ...

(1832–1888, US) * Kaye Aldenhoven (living, A) *

Richard Aldington Richard Aldington (born Edward Godfree Aldington; 8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962) was an English writer and poet. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement. His 50-year writing career covered poetry, novels, criticism and biography. He ed ...

(1892–1962, E) * Elizabeth Alexander (born 1962, US) * Sidney A. Alexander (1866–1948, E) *

William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling PC (c. 156712 February 1640) was a Scottish courtier and poet who was involved in the Scottish colonisation of Charles Fort, later Port-Royal, Nova Scotia in 1629 and Long Island, New York. His litera ...

(c. 1567–1640, S) *

Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up ...

(born 1966, US) *

Felipe Alfau Felipe Alfau (24 August 1902 – 18 February 1999) was a Spanish-born American novelist and poet. Most of his works were written in English. Biography Born in Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It ...

(1902–1999, US) *

Edna Alford Edna Alford (born 19 November 1947 in Turtleford, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian author and editor. She was a graduate of Adam Bowden Collegiate, Saskatoon, and got scholarships to attend the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts. Some of her teache ...

(born 1947, C) * Mike Alfred (living, SA) *

Agha Shahid Ali Agha Shahid Ali Qizilbash (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was an Indian-American poet. Born in New Delhi into a Kashmiri Muslim family, Ali immigrated to the United States from India and became affiliated with the literary movement kno ...

(1949–2001, In/US) *

James Alexander Allan James Alexander Allan (10 May 1879 – 22 January 1967) was an Australian poet and local historian. Allan was born in Melbourne. He studied at Alfred Crescent State School, North Fitzroy and the Model School. Between 1912 and 1918 he worked ...

(1889–1956, A) * Rob Allan (born 1945, NZ) *

Sandra Alland Sandra Alland is a Glasgow-based Scottish-Canadian writer, interdisciplinary artist, small press publisher, performer, filmmaker and curator. Alland's work focuses on social justice, language, humour, and experimental forms. Life and work Sandra ...

(living, C/S) * Donna Allard (living, C) *

Dick Allen Richard Anthony Allen (March 8, 1942 – December 7, 2020), nicknamed "Crash" and "the Wampum Walloper", was an American professional baseball player. During his 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played as a first baseman and thir ...

(1939–2017, US) *

Donald Allen Donald Merriam Allen (Iowa, 1912 – San Francisco, August 29, 2004) was an American editing, editor, publisher and translator of American literature. He is best known for his project ''The New American Poetry 1945-1960'' (1960), one of the a ...

(1912–2004, US) * Elizabeth Allen (living, A) *

Elizabeth Akers Allen Elizabeth Akers Allen (pen name, Florence Percy; October 9, 1832 – August 7, 1911) was an American poet and journalist. Her early poems appeared over the signature of "Florence Percy", and many of them were first published in the ''Portland Tran ...

(1832–1911, US) *

Leslie Holdsworth Allen Leslie Holdsworth Allen (21 June 1879 – 5 January 1964) was an Australian academic and poet. He was Professor of English at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, the senior lecturer of English and Latin at Canberra University College and chai ...

(1879–1964, A) *

Lillian Allen Lillian Allen (born 5 April 1951) is a Canadians, Canadian dub poetry, dub poet, writer and Juno Award winner. Biography Born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, Spanish Town, Jamaica, she left that country in 1969, first moving to New York City, where ...

(born 1951, C) *

Richard James Allen Richard James Allen (born 1960) is a contemporary Australian poet, dancer, actor and filmmaker. The former artistic director of the Poets Union Inc, and founding director of the Australian Poetry Festival, Allen was co-artistic director with Kar ...

(born 1960, A) * Ron Allen (1947–2010, US) * Ellen Palmer Allerton (1835–1893, US) *

William Allingham William Allingham (19 March 1824 – 18 November 1889) was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem "The Faeries" was much anthologised. But he is better known for his posthumously published ''Di ...

(1824/28–1889, Ir/E) *

Washington Allston Washington Allston (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was well known during his lifetime for ...

(1779–1843, US) *

Anne-Marie Alonzo Anne-Marie Alonzo, (December 13, 1951 – June 11, 2005) was a Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, to a father of Palestinian descent and a mother of Syrian and Maltese descent, she immigrate ...

(1951–2005, C) *

Alta Alta or ALTA may refer to: Acronyms * Alt-A, short for Alternative A-paper, is a type of US mortgage * American Land Title Association, a national trade association representing the land title industry * American Literary Translators Association, ...

(Alta Gerrey, 1942–2024, US) *

Al Alvarez Alfred Alvarez (5 August 1929 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who published under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez. Background Alfred Alvarez was born in London, to an Ashkenazic Jewish mother and a ...

(1929–2019, E) *

Ivy Alvarez Ivy Alvarez is a New Zealand–based Filipina Australian poet, editor, and reviewer. Alvarez has had her work featured in various publications in Australia, Canada, England, the Philippines, New Zealand, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, Wales, the US, ...

(living, A) *

Julia Alvarez Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels '' How the García Girls Lost Their Accents'' (1991), ''In the Time of the Butterflies'' (1994), and ''Yo! ...

(born 1950, D/US) *

Moniza Alvi Moniza Alvi FRSL (born 2 February 1954) is a British-Pakistani writer and poet. She has won several well-known prizes for her verse. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. Life and education Moniza Alvi was bor ...

(born 1954, E)

Am–Az

* George Amabile (born 1936, C) *

Abdulkareem Baba Aminu Abdulkareem Baba Aminu (born Kaduna, 7 July 1977) is a Nigerian journalist, cartoonist, comicbook artist and retailer, painter, writer, poet and culture critic. Baba Aminu is a commentator on culture. He was one of four judges for KORA Music Awar ...

(born 1977, Ni) *

Kingsley Amis Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social crit ...

(1922–1995, E) *

A. R. Ammons Archibald Randolph Ammons (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American poet and professor of English at Cornell University. Ammons published nearly thirty collections of poems in his lifetime. Revered for his impact on American roman ...

(1926–2001, US) *

Madhur Anand Madhur Anand is a Canadian poet and professor of ecology and environmental sciences. She was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario and lives in Guelph, Ontario. Scientific career Anand completed her PhD in theoretical ecology at Western University in ...

(born 1971, C) * Ingrid Andersen (born 1965, SA) *

Ethel Anderson Ethel Campbell Louise Anderson (née Mason; 16 March 1883 – 4 August 1958) was an early twentieth century Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter. She considered herself to be mainly a poet, but is now best appreciated for her witty an ...

(1883–1958, A) * Freddie Anderson (1922–2001, Ir/S) * J. Redwood Anderson (1883–1964, E) * Patrick Anderson (1915–1979, E/C) *

Rod Anderson Rod Anderson is a race car driver born in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasm ...

(born 1935, C) *

Victor Henry Anderson Victor Henry Anderson (May 21, 1917 – September 20, 2001) was an American priest and poet. He was co-founder of the Feri Tradition, a modern Pagan new religious movement established in California during the 1960s. Much of his poetry was religi ...

(1917–2001, US) *

Michael Andre Michael Andre (born August 31, 1946) is a Canadian, disc jockey, poet, critic and editor living in New York City. Andre was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to a civil engineer doing wartime work on a military hospital. His mother's father was a ne ...

(born 1946, C/US) *

Bruce Andrews Bruce Andrews (born April 1, 1948) is an American poet who is one of the key figures associated with the Language poets (or '' L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E'' ''poets'', after the magazine that bears that name). Life and work Andrews was born in Chicago and st ...

(born 1948, US) * Kevin Andrews (1924–1989, E/Gr) * Ron Androla (born 1954, US) * Ralph Angel (born 1951, US) *

Maya Angelou Maya Angelou ( ; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credi ...

(1928–2014, US) *

James Stout Angus James Stout Angus (20 September 1830 – 26 December 1923) was a writer from Shetland, Scotland. Life Angus was born at Catfirth Haa in the parish of Nesting. His grandfather William Angus is recorded first at Burraness in Delting, but the land ...

(1830–1923, S) *

Marion Angus Marion Emily Angus (1865–1946) was a Scottish poet who wrote in the Scots vernacular or Braid Scots, defined by some as a dialect of English and others as a closely related language. Her prose writings are mainly in standard English. She is s ...

(1865–1946, S) * J. K. Annand (1908–1993, S) *

David Antin David Abraham Antin (February 1, 1932 – October 11, 2016) was an American poet, art critic, performance artist, and university professor. Education and early career Antin was born in New York City in 1932. After graduating from Brooklyn Techni ...

(1932–2016, US) *

Antler Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) Family (biology), family. Antlers are a single structure composed of bone, cartilage, fibrous tissue, skin, nerves, and blood vessels. They are generally fo ...

(born 1946, US) *

Susanne Antonetta Susanne Antonetta is the pen name of Suzanne Paola (born September 29, 1956, in Georgia), an American poet and author who is most widely known for her book ''Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir''. In 2001, ''Body Toxic'' was named by the ''New Y ...

(born 1956, US) * Brother Antoninus (1912–1994, US) *

Raymond Antrobus Raymond Antrobus is a British poet, educator and writer who has been performing poetry since 2007. In March 2019, he won the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry.Philip Appleman (1926–2020, US) *

Richard Appleton Richard Appleton (17 January 1932 – 27 April 2005) was an Australian poet, raconteur and editor who became editor-in-chief of the ''Australian Encyclopaedia'' and, in 1987, was co-editor with Alex Galloway of the posthumous Lex Banning ...

(1932–2005, A) * Alexander Arbuthnot (1538–1583, S) *

Walter Conrad Arensberg Walter Conrad Arensberg (April 4, 1878 – January 29, 1954) was an American art collector, critic and poet. His father was part owner and president of a crucible steel company. He majored in English and philosophy at Harvard University. With his w ...

(1878–1954, US) *

Rae Armantrout Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. She has published more than two dozen books, including both poetry and prose. Armantrout was awarded the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Aw ...

(born 1947, US) *

Simon Armitage Simon Robert Armitage (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist. He was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds. He has published over 20 collections of poetr ...

(born 1963, E) *

Annie Armitt Annie Armitt (1850 – 30 November 1933) was an English novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist. She was also one of the founders of a school in Eccles, England. Early years Annie Maria Armitt was born in Salford, England, in 1850. Sh ...

(1850–1933, E) *

Richard Armour Richard Willard Armour (July 15, 1906 – February 28, 1989) was an American poet and prose writer who wrote more than 65 books. Life and works Armour was born in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California the only child of Harry W. and Sue Wheelock Arm ...

(1906–1989, US) *

Jeannette Armstrong Jeannette Christine Armstrong (Okanagan: lax̌lax̌tkʷ; born 1948) is a Canadian author, educator, artist, and activist. She was born and grew up on the Penticton Indian reserve in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, and fluently speaks both the ...

(born 1948, C) * Peter Armstrong (born 1957, E) *

Tammy Armstrong Tammy Lynn Armstrong (born March 26, 1974) is a Canadian poet and novelist."Tammy Lynn Armstron ...

(born 1974, C) *

David Arnason David Arnason (born 23 May 1940) is a Canadian author and poet of Icelandic heritage from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Life Born in Gimli, Manitoba, Arnason is of Icelandic descent and often writes about the Icelandic community in Canada. He is the son ...

(born 1940, C) *

Craig Arnold Craig Arnold (November 16, 1967 – April 27, 2009) was an American poet and professor. His first book of poems, ''Shells'' (1999), was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His many honors include the 2005 Joseph Br ...

(1967–2009, US) *

Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold (academic), Tom Arnold, literary professor, and Willi ...

(1822–1888, E) * Joanne Arnott (born 1960, C) * K. O. Arvidson (1938–2011, NZ) * M. K. Asante (born 1982, US) *

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

(1927–2017, US) * Cliff Ashby (1919–2012, E) * Joseph Ashby-Sterry (1836 or 1838–1917, E) *

Thomas Ashe Thomas Patrick Ashe (; 12 January 1885 – 25 September 1917) was an Irish revolutionary and politician. He was a member of the Gaelic League, the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and a founding member of th ...

(1836–1889, E) * Renée Ashley (born 1949, US) *

Anne Askew Anne Askew (sometimes spelled Ayscough or Ascue), married name Anne Kyme (152116 July 1546), was an English writer, poet, and Protestant preacher who was condemned as a heretic during the reign of Henry VIII of England. She and Margaret Cheyne ...

(1521–1546, E) *

Timoshenko Aslanides Timoshenko Aslanides (24 December 1943 – 6 January 2020) was an Australian poet. Biography Timoshenko Aslanides was born on Christmas Eve, 1943, in the Crown Street Women's Hospital, in Sydney, to John Paul Aslanides (1901–1962), a 1925 imm ...

(1943–2020, A) *

Herbert Asquith Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928) was a British statesman and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. He was the last ...

(1881–1947, E) *

Thea Astley Thea Beatrice May Astley (25 August 1925 – 17 August 2004) was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin ...

(1925–2004, A) *

Tilly Aston Matilda Ann Aston (11 December 1873 – 1 November 1947), better known as Tilly Aston, was a blind Australian writer and teacher, who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers, and later went on to establish the Association for the A ...

(1873–1947, A) *

Edwin Atherstone Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872) was a poet and novelist. His works, which were planned on an imposing scale, attracted some temporary attention and applause, but are now forgotten. His chief poem, '' The Fall of Nineveh'', consisting of thirty b ...

(1788–1872, E) *

Cassandra Atherton Cassandra Atherton is an Australian prose-poet, critic, and scholar. She is one of the leading international experts on prose poetry. She is also renowned for her work in the scholarly field of ekphrastic poetry and is celebrated for coining the ...

(living, A) * Rupert Atkinson (1881–1961, A) * Tiffany Atkinson (born 1972, W) *

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and an inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight chi ...

(born 1939, C) *

Dorothy Auchterlonie Dorothy Auchterlonie (also known as Dorothy Green; 28 May 1915 – 21 February 1991) was an English-born Australian academic, literary critic and poet. Life Auchterlonie was born in Sunderland, County Durham in England. In 1927 when she ...

(1915–1991, A) *

John Audelay John Audelay (or Awdelay; died c. 1426) was an English priest and poet from Haughmond Abbey, in Shropshire; one of the few English poets of the period whose name is known to us. Some of the first Christmas carols recorded in English appear among ...

(died c. 1426, E) *

W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, ...

(1907–1973, E/US) *

William Auld William Auld (6 November 1924 – 11 September 2006) was a British poet, author, translator and magazine editor who wrote chiefly in Esperanto. Life Auld was born at Erith in Kent, and then moved to Glasgow with his parents, attending Allan ...

(1924–2006, S) *

Joseph Auslander Joseph Auslander (October 11, 1897 – June 22, 1965) was an American poet, anthologist, translator of poems, and novelist. Auslander was appointed the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1937 and 1941. Life ...

(1897–1965, US) *

Paul Auster Paul Benjamin Auster (February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024) was an American writer, novelist, memoirist, poet, and filmmaker. His notable works include '' The New York Trilogy'' (1987), '' Moon Palace'' (1989), '' The Music of Chance'' (1990), ' ...

(1947–2024, US) *

Alfred Austin Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour. It was c ...

(1835–1913, E) *

Oana Avasilichioaei Oana Avasilichioaei is a Canadian poet and translator. Her poetry work includes ''Expeditions of a Chimæra'' (2009), a collaboration with Erín Moure, and ''We Beasts'' (2012), which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. As a translator, she is m ...

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James Avery James La Rue Avery (November 27, 1945 – December 31, 2013) was an American actor. He was best known for his roles as Philip Banks in ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', Judge Michael Conover on ''L.A. Law'', Steve Yeager in '' The Brady Bunch M ...

(born 1948, US) *

Tusiata Avia Donna Tusiata Avia (born 1966) is a New Zealand poet and children's author. She has been recognised for her work through receiving a 2020 Birthday Honours (New Zealand), 2020 Queen's Birthday Honour and in 2021 her collection ''The Savage Colo ...

(born 1966, NZ) *

Margaret Avison Margaret Avison, (April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007) was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize.Michael Gnarowski,Avison, Margaret" ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig ...

(1918–2007, C) *

Kofi Awoonor Kofi Awoonor (born George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams; 13 March 1935 – 21 September 2013) was a Ghanaian poet, author and diplomat. His work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people with contemporary and religious symbolism ...

(1935–2013, Gh) * Ayo Ayoola-Amale (born 1970, Ni) *

Pam Ayres Pamela Ayres MBE (born 14 March 1947) is a British poet, comedian, songwriter and presenter of radio and television programmes. Her 1975 appearance on the television talent show '' Opportunity Knocks'' led to appearances on other TV and radio ...

(born 1947, E) * Sir Robert Aytoun (1570–1638, S/E) *

William Edmondstoune Aytoun William Edmondstoune "W. E." Aytoun FRSE (21 June 18134 August 1865) was a Scottish poet, lawyer by training, and professor of rhetoric and belles lettres at the University of Edinburgh. He published poetry, translation, prose fiction, criticis ...

(1813–1865, S) * Nnorom Azuonye (born 1967, Ni) * Jody Azzouni (born 1954, US)

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Ken Babstock Ken Babstock (born 19 January 1970) is a Canadian poet.House of Anansi ...

(born 1970, C) * Peter Babyon (fl. 1317 – 1366, E) * Jimmy Santiago Baca (born 1952, US) *

Bellamy Bach Bellamy Bach was a group pseudonym used by several New York-based writers in the 1980s, some of whom still remain anonymous. Terri Windling has used the pseudonym when writing stories for the anthologies '' Bordertown'' and ''Life on the Border'', ...

(group pseudonym, 1980s, US) * Joseph M. Bachelor (Joseph Morris, 1889–1947, US) * Elizabeth Bachinsky (born 1976, C) * Gabeba Baderoon (born 1969, SA) * Grace Shattuck Bail (1898–1996, US) * Alfred Bailey (1905–1997, C) * Jacob Bailey (1731–1808, US/C) * Kevin Bailey (born 1953, E) *

Philip James Bailey Philip James Bailey (22 April 1816 – 6 September 1902) was an English poet, best known as the author of ''Festus''. Life Bailey was born on 22 April 1816, in Nottingham, the only son of Thomas Bailey by his first wife, Mary Taylor. He was ...

(1816–1902, E) *

Joanna Baillie Joanna Baillie (11 September 1762 – 23 February 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist, known for such works as ''Plays on the Passions'' (three volumes, 1798–1812) and ''Fugitive Verses'' (1840). Her work shows an interest in moral philoso ...

(1762–1861, S/E) * David Baker (born 1954, US) * Henry Baker (1698–1774, E) * Marie Annharte Baker (born 1942, C) * Peter Bakowski (born 1954, A) * John Balaban (born 1943, US) *

Jesse Ball Jesse Ball (born June 7, 1978) is an American novelist and poet. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short stories, and drawings. His works are distinguished by the use of a spare style and have been compared to those of Jorge Luis Borges ...

(born 1978, US) *

Addie L. Ballou Addie Lucia Ballou (April 29, 1838 – August 10, 1916) was an American suffragist, poet, artist, author, and lecturer. Ballou took an active part in the Spiritualist movement as a writer and lecturer. Her reform and philanthropy interests in ...

(1838–1916, US) *

Samuel Bamford Samuel Bamford (28 February 1788 – 13 April 1872) was an English radical reformer and writer born in Middleton, Lancashire. He wrote on the subject of northern English dialect and wrote some of his better known verse in it. Biography Bamford ...

(1788–1872, E) *

John Banim John Banim (3 April 1798 – 30 August 1842), was an Irish novelist, short story writer, dramatist, poet and essayist, sometimes called the "Scott of Ireland." He also studied art, working as a painter of miniatures and portraits, and as a drawi ...

(1798–1842, Ir/E) * Chris Banks (born 1970, C) *

Russell Banks Russell Earl Banks (March 28, 1940 – January 8, 2023) was an American writer of fiction and poetry. His novels are known for "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". He drew from ...

(born 1940, US) * Kaushalya Bannerji (living, C) *

Anne Bannerman Anne Bannerman (31 October 1765 – 29 September 1829) was a Scottish poet. She was part of the Edinburgh literary circle which included John Leyden, Jessie Stewart, Thomas Campbell (poet), Thomas Campbell, and Robert Anderson. Her work was ...

(1765–1829, S) * Frances Bannerman (1855–1944, C) *

Lex Banning Arthur Alexander Banning (1921–1965) was an Australian lyric poet. Disabled from birth by cerebral palsy, he was unable to speak clearly or to write with a pen. "Yet he overcame his handicap to produce poems which were often hauntingly beauti ...

(1921–1965, A) * Ivy Bannister (born 1951, US/Ir) *

Shabbir Banoobhai Shabbir Banoobhai (born 23 October 1949) is a South African poet. Biography He was born in Durban and, after school wanted to study at University. The costs were prohibitive, and instead he studied to become a teacher at Springfield College. He ...

(born 1949, SA) *

Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous b ...

(1934–2014, US) *

Anna Laetitia Barbauld Anna Laetitia Barbauld (, by herself possibly , as in French, Aikin; 20 June 1743 – 9 March 1825) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature. A prominent member of the Blue Stockings ...

(1743–1825, E) * Mary Barber (c. 1685 – c. 1755, Ir) *

Ros Barber Rosalind Barber (born 1964) is an English novelist, poet and academic. Education She has a BSc in Biology, an MA in creative writing, the arts and education, and a PhD in English literature, all from the University of Sussex. She also has an Op ...

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(1743–1825, E) *

John Barbour John Barbour may refer to: * John Barbour (poet) (1316–1395), Scottish poet * John Barbour (MP for New Shoreham), MP for New Shoreham 1368–1382 * John Barbour (footballer) (1890–1916), Scottish footballer * John S. Barbour (1790–1855), U ...

(c. 1320–1395, S) *

Alexander Barclay Dr Alexander Barclay ( – 10 June 1552) was a poet and clergyman of the Church of England, probably born in Scotland. Biography Barclay was born in about 1476. His place of birth is a matter of dispute, but William Bulleyn, who was a ...

(1476–1552, S) *

Leland Bardwell Constance Olive Leland Bardwell (25 February 1922 – 28 June 2016) was an Irish poet, novelist, and playwright. She was part of the literary scene in London and later Dublin, where she was an editor of literary magazines ''Hibernia'' and '' Cyp ...

(1922–2016, Ir) *

Serie Barford Serie Barford is a performance poet from Auckland, New Zealand. Her poetry collection, ''Tapa Talk'', was published in 2007 to critical acclaim. She has published four other books of poetry (in 1985, 1989, 2015, and 2021). Her poems and short st ...

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Richard Barham Richard Harris Barham (6 December 1788 – 17 June 1845) was an English cleric of the Church of England, a novelist and a humorous poet. He was known generally by his pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby and as the author of ''The Ingoldsby Legends''. ...

(Thomas Ingoldsby, 1788–1845, E) * George Barker (1913–1991, E) *

Les Barker Les Barker (30 January 1947 – 14 January 2023) was an English poet. He wrote comedy, comedic poetry, parody, parodies of popular songs, and also serious works. Biography Barker was born in Manchester, England, on 30 January 1947. He stu ...

(born 1947, E) *

Coleman Barks Coleman Barks (born April 23, 1937) is an American poet and former literature faculty member at the University of Georgia. Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other Engl ...

(born 1937, US) *

Clement Barksdale Clement Barksdale (November 1609 – January 1687) was a prolific English religious author, polymath and Anglican priest. He lost his London parish in the English Civil War, but gained Gloucestershire livings at the Restoration and taught at a p ...

(1609–1687, E) *

Joel Barlow Joel Barlow (March 24, 1754 – December 26, 1812) was an American poet, diplomat, and politician. In politics, he supported the French Revolution and was an ardent Jeffersonian republican. He worked as an agent for American speculator William ...

(1754–1812, US/F) *

Lady Anne Barnard Lady Anne Barnard (née Lindsay; 8 December 17506 May 1825) was a Scottish travel writer, artist and socialite, and the author of the ballad '' Auld Robin Gray''. Her five-year residence in Cape Town, South Africa, although brief, had a signif ...

(1750–1825, S/SA) *

Mary Barnard Mary Ethel Barnard (December 6, 1909 – August 25, 2001) was an American poet, biographer and Greek language, Greek-to-English language, English translator. She is known for her elegant rendering of the works of Sappho, a translation which has n ...

(1909–2002, US) *

Djuna Barnes Djuna Barnes ( ; June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel '' Nightwood'' (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist lite ...

(1892–1982, US) *

Stuart Barnes Stuart Barnes (born 22 November 1962 in Grays, Essex) is a former English rugby union footballer, and now rugby commentator for Sky Sports. Barnes played fly-half for Newport RFC, Bristol, Bath; and represented England at international level. ...

(born 1977, A) *

William Barnes William Barnes (22 February 1801 – 7 October 1886) was an English polymath, writer, poet, philologist, priest, mathematician, engraving artist and inventor. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect, and much other work, including a co ...

(1801–1886, E) *

Annie Wall Barnett Annie Wall Barnett (, Annie Carpenter; after first marriage, Annie Carpenter Wall; later, Annie Wall Barnett; September 19, 1859 – September 3/4, 1942) was an American writer, litterateur, and poet. She was considered to be among the leading p ...

(1859–1942, US) *

Catherine Barnett Catherine Barnett is an American poet and educator. She is the author of ''Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space'' (Graywolf Press, 2024); ''Human Hours'' (Graywolf Press, 2018), winner of the ''Believer'' Book Award; ''The Game of Boxes'' ...

(born 1960, US) *

Richard Barnfield Richard Barnfield (baptized 29 June 1574 – 1620) was an English poet. His relationship with William Shakespeare has long made him interesting to scholars. It has been suggested that he was the " rival poet" mentioned in Shakespeare's sonnet ...

(1574–1627, E) *

Willis Barnstone Willis Barnstone (born November 13, 1927) is an American poet, religious scholar, and translator. He was born in Lewiston, Maine and lives in Oakland, California. He has translated works by Jorge Luis Borges, Antonio Machado, Rainer Maria Rilke, ...

(born 1927, US) * John Barr (1809–1889, S/NZ) * Miriam Barr (born 1982, NZ) *

Laird Barron Laird Samuel Barron (born March 5, 1970) is an American author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror, noir, or horror noir and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the managing editor of the online literary magazine ''Melic Re ...

(born 1970, US) *

Bernard Barton Bernard Barton (31 January 1784 – 19 February 1849) was known as the Quaker poet. His main works included ''The Convict's Appeal'' (1818), in which he protested against the death penalty and the severity of the criminal code. Family Bernard ...

(1784–1849, E) * John Barton (born 1957, C) *

Bertha Hirsch Baruch Bertha Hirsch Baruch was a German-born American writer, social worker, and suffragist. Baruch was born in the Province of Posen, Germany. She immigrated to New London, Connecticut, United States, with her father in 1876. Baruch wrote poetry as a ...

(later 19th – early 20th century, US) * Gary Barwin (born 1964, C) * Todd Bash (born 1965, US) * Michael Basinski (born 1950, US) * Shaunt Basmajian (1950–1990, C) *

Ellen Bass Ellen Bass (born June 16, 1947) is an American poet and author. She has won three Pushcart Prizes and a Lambda Literary Award for her 2002 book ''Mules of Love''. She co-authored the 1991 book '' The Courage to Heal'' about recovery from child s ...

(born 1947, US) *

Arlo Bates Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 – August 25, 1918) was an American author, educator and newspaperman. Biography Arlo Bates was born at East Machias, Maine, on December 16, 1850. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. In 1880 Bates became th ...

(1850–1918, US) * David Bates (1809–1870, US) *

H. E. Bates Herbert Ernest Bates (16 May 1905 – 29 January 1974) was a British writer known for his gritty, realistic short stories (he wrote more than 25 collections) and novels set predominantly in early- to mid-20th century England. His rural u ...

(1905–1974, E) *

Katharine Lee Bates Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929) was an American author and poet, chiefly remembered for her anthem "America the Beautiful", but also for her many books and articles on social reform, on which she was a noted speaker. B ...

(1859–1929, US) *

Joseph Bathanti Joseph Bathanti (born July 20, 1953, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American poet, novelist and professor. He was named by Governor of North Carolina, Governor Bev Perdue as the seventh North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2012–2014. Biography Early ...

(born 1953, US) * Dawn-Michelle Baude (born 1959, US) * Bill Bauer (1932–2010, US/C) *

Edward Baugh Edward Alston Cecil Baugh CD (10 January 1936 – 9 December 2023) was a Jamaican poet and scholar, recognised as an authority on the work of Derek Walcott, whose ''Selected Poems'' (2007) Baugh edited, having in 1978 authored the first book-l ...

(1936–2023, J) * Charles Baxter (born 1947, US) *

James K. Baxter James Keir Baxter (29 June 1926 – 22 October 1972) was a New Zealand poet and playwright. He was also known as an activist for the preservation of Māori culture. He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and controversial literary figures. ...

(1926–1972, NZ) * Arthur Bayldon (1865–1958, A) * William Baylebridge (1883–1942, A)

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* Eric Beach (born 1947, A) * Thomas Beach (died 1737, W) *

John Beaglehole John Cawte Beaglehole (13 June 1901 – 10 October 1971) was a New Zealand historian whose greatest scholastic achievement was the editing of James Cook's three journals of exploration, together with the writing of an acclaimed biography of Coo ...

(1901–1971, NZ) * Anne Beale (1816–1900, E/W) *

Doug Beardsley Doug Beardsley (born April 27, 1941) is a Canadian poet and educator. He has collaborated with numerous other writers including Al Purdy, Theresa Kishkan and Charles Lillard. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and studied at Sir George Williams U ...

(born 1941, C) * James Beattie (1735–1803, S) * Jan Beatty (born 1952, US) * Derek Beaulieu (born 1973, C) *

Francis Beaumont Francis Beaumont ( ; 1584 – 6 March 1616) was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher. Beaumont's life Beaumont was the son of Sir Francis Beaumont of Grace Dieu, near Thri ...

(1586–1616, E) * Bruce Beaver (1928–2004, A) *

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

(1906–1989, Ir) *

Joshua Beckman Joshua Beckman is an American poet. Life Joshua Beckman was born in 1971 New Haven, Connecticut, and graduated from Hampshire College. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, including ''The Inside of an Apple'' (which was a finalist fo ...

(living, US) *

Thomas Lovell Beddoes Thomas Lovell Beddoes (30 June 1803 – 26 January 1849) was an English poet, dramatist and physician. Biography Born in Clifton, Bristol, England, he was the son of Dr. Thomas Beddoes, a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anna, sister ...

(1803–1849, E/G) *

Ruth Bedford Ruth Bedford (2 August 1882 – 24 July 1963) was an Australian poet, playwright and fiction writer. Career Ruth Bedford was born in Petersham, Sydney, to Alfred Percival Bedford and Agnes Victoria Stephen, daughter of Sir Alfred Stephen, an ...

(1882–1963, A) *

Jack Bedson John William "Jack" Bedson (born 5 March 1950) is an Australian writer, poet, children's picture book author, and former university librarian. Early life and education Bedson was born in the Sydney suburb of Redfern and raised in Sydney's inne ...

(born 1950, A) *

Patricia Beer Patricia Beer (4 November 1919 – 15 August 1999) was an English poet and critic. Born to a family of Plymouth Brethren, a strict religious order, she took inspiration for her poetry from there, with particular influence from her mother who in ...

(1919–1999, E) *

Ven Begamudré Ven Begamudré (born 1956) is a Canadian poet, short story writer and novelist. He was born in Bangalore, India and moved with his family to Canada when he was six. During his writing career, he has been a part of six writers-in-residence. He curr ...

(born 1956, C) *

Brendan Behan Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (christened Francis Behan) ( ; ; 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican, an activist who wrote in both English and Irish. His widely ackno ...

(1923–1964, Ir) *

Aphra Behn Aphra Behn (; baptism, bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration (England), Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writ ...

(1640–1689, E) *

Sinclair Beiles Sinclair Beiles (b. Kampala, Uganda, 1930–2000, Johannesburg) was a South African beat poet and editor for Maurice Girodias at the Olympia Press in Paris. He developed along with William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin the cut-up technique of ...

(1930–2000, SA) *

Gerard Beirne Gerard Beirne is an Irish author and literary editor. He is a fiction editor for '' The Fiddlehead'' and curates the online magazine ''The Irish Literary Times''. In 2008, Beirne served as Writer in Residence at the University of New Brunswic ...

(born 1962, Ir/C) * Henry Beissel (born 1929, G/C) *

Billy-Ray Belcourt Billy-Ray Belcourt is a poet, scholar, and author from the Driftpile Cree Nation. Belcourt's works encompass a variety of topics and themes, including decolonial love, grief, intimacy and queer sexuality, and the role of Indigenous women in so ...

(living, C) *

Ken Belford Ken Belford (1946–2020) was a Canadian poet. Belford was born in DeBolt, Alberta, and grew up in East Vancouver. As a young man, he worked on the log booms of the BC lower mainland, and as a lumber piler in the sawmill camps of the interior. In ...

(born 1946, C) * Erin Belieu (born 1965, US) * J. J. Bell (1871–1934, S) *

Julian Bell Julian Heward Bell (4 February 1908 – 18 July 1937) was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell (who was the elder sister of Virginia Woolf). The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother and the writer and painter Angelica ...

(1908–1937, E) *

Marvin Bell Marvin Hartley Bell (August 3, 1937 – December 14, 2020) was an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the state of Iowa. Early life and education Bell was raised in Center Moriches on Long Island. He served in the ...

(1937–2020, US) *

Lisa Bellear Lisa (Marie) Bellear (2 May 1961 in Melbourne, Victoria – 5 July 2006 in Melbourne) was an Indigenous Australian poet, photographer, activist, spokeswoman, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster. She was a Goenpul woman of the Noonuccal people ...

(1961–2006, A) *

Lesley Belleau Lesley Belleau is an Anishinaabe writer from Canada. She is most noted for her 2017 poetry collection ''Indianland'', which won the Pat Lowther Award in 2018.Hilaire Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc ( ; ; 27 July 187016 July 1953) was a French-English writer, politician, and historian. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic fait ...

(1870–1953, E) *

John Bemrose John Bemrose is a Canadian arts journalist, novelist, poet and playwright. His arts reviews have appeared in ''Maclean's'', ''The Globe and Mail'', the ''National Post'' and on CBC Radio. Bemrose was born and raised in Paris, Ontario, where his f ...

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Gwen Benaway Gwen Benaway is a Canadian poet and activist. As of October 2019, she was a PhD candidate in the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto. Benaway has also written non-fiction for ''The Glob ...

(born 1987, C) * Hester A. Benedict (1838–1921, US) *

Stephen Vincent Benét Stephen Vincent Benét ( ; July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, '' John Brown's Body'', published in 1928, for which he receive ...

(1898–1943, US) *

William Rose Benét William Rose Benét (February 2, 1886 – May 4, 1950) was an American poet, writer, and editor. He was the older brother of Stephen Vincent Benét. Early life and education He was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Col. James Walker Benét ...

(1886–1950, US) *

Elizabeth Benger Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger (baptised on 15 June 1775 at West Camel, Somerset, died on 9 January 1827 in London) was an English biographer, novelist and poet. Some of her poetry had a strong social message. Early life and education Elizabeth was th ...

(1775–1827, E) *

Gwendolyn B. Bennett Gwendolyn B. Bennett (July 8, 1902 – May 30, 1981) was an American artist, writer, and journalist who contributed to '' Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life'', which chronicled cultural advancements during the Harlem Renaissance. Though often ...

(1902–1981, US) * Jim Bennett (born 1951, E) *

Louise Bennett-Coverley Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, actress, writer, and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the prac ...

(1919–2006, J) *

Robbie Benoit Robbie Benoit (?–2007) was a Canadian poet and writer. A longtime resident of Whitehorse, Yukon, he is best known for his '' Tall Yukon Tales''. Benoit was born in northwestern Quebec. After moving to the Yukon as a young man, he worked for ...

(died 2007, C) *

A. C. Benson Arthur Christopher Benson, (24 April 1862 – 17 June 1925) was an English essayist, poet and academic, who served as the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He wrote the lyrics of Edward Elgar's ''Coronation Ode'', including the words ...

(1862–1925, E) *

Richard Berengarten Richard Berengarten (born 4 June 1943) is an English poet. Having lived in Italy, Greece, the US and the former Yugoslavia, his perspectives as a poet combine English, French, Mediterranean, Jewish, Slavic, American and Oriental influences. His ...

(born 1943, E) * Bill Berkson (1939–2016, US) *

Charles Bernstein Charles Bernstein may refer to: * Charles Bernstein (composer) (born 1943), American composer of film and television scores * Charles Bernstein (poet) (born 1950), American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar {{hndis, Bernstein, Cha ...

(born 1950, US) * Robert Berold (born 1948, SA) *

Anselm Berrigan Anselm Berrigan (born 1972) is an American poet and teacher. Life and work Anselm Berrigan grew up in New York City, where he currently resides with his wife, poet Karen Weiser. From 2003 to 2007, he served as artistic director at the St. Mark ...

(born 1972, US) *

Daniel Berrigan Daniel Joseph Berrigan (May 9, 1921 – April 30, 2016) was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, Christian pacifist, playwright, poet, and author. Berrigan's protests against the Vietnam War earned him both scorn and admiratio ...

(1921–2016, US) *

Ted Berrigan Edmund Joseph Michael Berrigan Jr. (November 15, 1934 – July 4, 1983) was an American poet. Early life Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 1934. After high school, he spent a year at Providence College before joining ...

(1934–1983, US) * James Berry (1924–2017, J/E) *

Wendell Berry Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays o ...

(born 1934, US) *

John Berryman John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in th ...

(1914–1972, US) * Charles Best (1570–1627, E) *

Mary Matilda Betham Mary Matilda Betham, known by family and friends as Matilda Betham (16 November 1776 – 30 September 1852), was an English diarist, poet, woman of letters, and miniature portrait painter. She exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1804 to ...

(1776–1852, E) * Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919, E) *

Ursula Bethell Mary Ursula Bethell (pseudonym, Evelyn Hayes; 6 October 1874 – 15 January 1945), was a New Zealand poet. She settled at the age of 50 at Rise Cottage on the Cashmere Hills near Christchurch, with her companion Effie Pollen, where she created ...

(1874–1945, NZ) *

John Betjeman Sir John Betjeman, (; 28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architect ...

(1906–1984, E) * Craven Langstroth Betts (1853–1941, C) * Elizabeth Beverley (fl. 1815–1830, E) *

Judith Beveridge Judith Beveridge (born 1956) is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Biography Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. S ...

(born 1956, A) *

Helen Bevington Helen E. Bevington (; 1906 – March 16, 2001) was an American poet, prose writer, and educator. Her most noted book, ''Charley Smith's Girl'' (1965), was "banned by the library in the small town of Worcester, N.Y., where she grew up, because the ...

(1906–2001, US) *

L. S. Bevington Louisa Sarah Bevington (14 May 1845 – 28 November 1895) was an English anarchist, essayist and poet. Among those who attended her funeral was Peter Kropotkin. Early life and works Bevington was born in St John's Hill, Battersea, Surrey, now ...

(1845–1895, E) * Thomas Bibby (1799–1863, Ir) *

Ruth Bidgood Ruth Bidgood (née Jones; 20 July 1922 – 4 March 2022) was a Welsh poet and local historian who wrote in English. Life and career Ruth Jones was born at Blaendulais, Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, Seven Sisters, near Neath, Wales, on 20 Jul ...

(1922–2022, W) * Lettie S. Bigelow (1849–1906, US) *

Vonani Bila Vonani Bila is a South African author and poet, he was born in 1972 in Shirley Village near Elim Hospital. He is the founder and editor of the poetry journal ''Timbila'' and directs the Timbila Poetry Project in Shirley Village, Elim in Limpopo P ...

(born 1972, SA) * Robert Billings (1949–1986, C) *

William Billington William Billington (1875 – 1952) was an English executioner. He was on the Home Office list from 1902 to 1905 and had participated in hangings from 1899. Career Billington, second son of executioner James Billington (executioner), James Billi ...

(1825–1884, E) *

Margaret Bingham Margaret Bingham, Countess of Lucan (1740 – 27 February 1814)Ernest Radford, "Bingham, Margaret, Countess of Lucan (c. 1740–1814)", rev. V. Remington, ODNB, Oxford University Press, 200Retrieved 4 October 2014/ref> was an English painter, co ...

(1740–1814, E) *

Laurence Binyon Robert Laurence Binyon, Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster, England, his parents were Frederick Binyon, ...

(1869–1943, E) *

Hera Lindsay Bird Hera Lindsay Bird (born 31 December 1987) is a New Zealand poet. Life and career Hera Lindsay Bird was born and raised in Thames in the North Island of New Zealand. She attended Victoria University of Wellington and then received her Master's d ...

(born 1987, NZ) *

Earle Birney Earle Alfred Birney (13 May 1904 – 3 September 1995) was a Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honour, for his poetry. Life Born in Calgary in the North-West Territories' District o ...

(1904–1995, C) *

Dora Birtles Dora Birtles (; 1904–1992), was an Australian novelist, short-story writer, poet and travel writer. Life Dora Toll was born in 1903 in Wickham, New South Wales, a suburb of Newcastle, the sixth daughter of Albert Frederick Toll and Hannah (n� ...

(1903–1992, A) *

Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Awar ...

(1911–1979, US) *

Morris Bishop Morris Gilbert Bishop (April 15, 1893 – November 20, 1973) was an American scholar who wrote numerous books on Romance history, literature, and biography. His work also extended to North American exploration and beyond. Orphaned at 12, he ...

(1893–1973, US) * Samuel Bishop (1731–1795, E) * Bill Bissett (born 1939, C) *

Sherwin Bitsui Sherwin Bitsui is a Navajo writer and poet. His book of poems, ''Flood Song'' (2009), won the American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Life and education Bitsui was born in 1974. He is originally from Whitecone, Arizona. He is Navajo; ...

(born 1974, US) * David MacLeod Black (born 1941, S) * Sophie Cabot Black (born 1958, US) * Paul Blackburn (1926–1971, US) *

Thomas Blacklock Thomas Blacklock (10 November 1721 – 7 July 1791) was a Scottish poet who went blind in infancy. Life He was born near Annan, Dumfriesshire (now Dumfries and Galloway), of humble parentage, and lost his sight as a result of smallpox when six ...

(1721–1791, S) *

Leigh Blackmore Leigh (David) Blackmore (born 1959) is an Australian horror writer, critic, editor, occultist, musician and proponent of post-left anarchy. He was the Australian representative for the Horror Writers of America (1994–95) and served as the ...

(born 1959, A) * R. P. Blackmur (1904–1965, US) * Peter Bladen (1922–2001, A) *

Isa Blagden Isa or Isabella Jane Blagden (30 June 1816 or 1817 – 20 January 1873) was an English-language novelist, speaker, and poet born in the East Indies or India, who spent much of her life among the English community in Florence. She was notably frie ...

(1816 or 1817–1873, It) *

Max Blagg Max Blagg is a British-born poet, writer, and performer from England. Blagg has performed in New York City since 1971. He is currently a visiting lecturer in poetry at The New School in New York City (continuous from 2005). Life Max Blagg was ...

(born 1948, E/US) *

Mark Blagrave Mark Blagrave (born 1956) is a Canadian writer of plays, short stories, and novels, and a former university professor and administrator. Born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Blagrave was raised in Southern Ontario and Bermuda before finishing high school ...

(born 1956, C) * Robert Blair (1699–1746, S) *

Lewis Blake Lewis Blake (born June 1946) is a British poet and artist. He is a member of the Cambridge School of poetry, and, to a certain extent, the British Poetry Revival. Life Blake was born in Reydon, near Southwold in Suffolk in June 1946. He was educ ...

(born 1946, E) *

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the Romantic poetry, poetry and visual art of the Roma ...

(1757–1827, E) *

Susanna Blamire Susanna Blamire (12 January 1747 – 1794) was an English Romantic poet, sometimes known as 'The Muse of Cumberland' because many of her poems represent rural life in the county and, therefore, provide a valuable contradistinction to those amo ...

(1747–1794, E) *

Paddy Blanchfield Patrick Blanchfield (18 December 1911 – 20 June 1980) was a Labour Party member of the New Zealand Parliament for Westland and the West Coast. Biography Early life and career Blanchfield was born in 1911 in Greymouth where his father, Patr ...

(1911–1980, NZ) *

Richard Blanco Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American poet, public speaker, author, playwright, and civil engineer. He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem " One Today" for Barack Oba ...

(born 1968, US) *

Don Blanding Donald Benson Blanding (November 7, 1894–June 9, 1957) was an American poet, sometimes described as the "poet laureate of Hawaii." He was also a journalist, cartoonist, author and speaker. Early life Blanding was born in Kingfisher, Oklahom ...

(1894–1957, US) *

Robin Blaser Robin Francis Blaser (May 18, 1925 – May 7, 2009) was an American-born Canadian playwright, poet, and translator. Personal background Born in Denver, Colorado, Blaser grew up in Idaho, and came to Berkeley, California, in 1944. There he met Ja ...

(1925–2009, C) *

Ann Eliza Bleecker Ann Eliza Bleecker (October 1752 – November 23, 1783) was an American poet and correspondent. Following a New York upbringing, Bleecker married John James Bleecker, a New Rochelle lawyer, in 1769. He encouraged her writings, and helped he ...

(1752–1783, US) *

Adrian Blevins Adrian Blevins (born 1964 in Abingdon, Virginia, United States) is an American poet. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including ''Appalachians Run Amok'', winner of the 2016 Wilder Prize (Two Sylvias Press, 2018). Her other full- ...

(born 1964, US) *

John Blight Frederick John Blight (30 July 1913 – 12 May 1995) was an Australian poet of Cornish origin, his ancestors having arrived in South Australia on the ''Lisander'', in 1851. In the 1987 recording ''John Blight'', he describes his Cornish backg ...

(1913–1995, A) *

Mathilde Blind Mathilde Blind (born Mathilda Cohen; 21 March 1841 – 26 November 1896), was a German-born English poet, fiction writer, biographer, essayist and critic. In the early 1870s she emerged as a pioneering female aesthete in a mostly male community ...

(1841–1896, E) *

Laurie Block Laurie Block (1949–2018) was a Canadian poet and educator. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he studied at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. Bibliography *''Governing Bodies'' - poetry, 1988 *''Foreign Graces/Bendiciones Aje ...

(1949–2018, C) * E. D. Blodgett (1935–2018, C) * Benjamin Paul Blood (1832–1919, US) *

Valerie Bloom Valerie Bloom MBE (born 1956)Jeffrey Wainwright''Poetry: The Basics''(2004), 2nd edition, Routledge, 2011, p. 21. is a Jamaican-born poet and novelist based in the UK.Robert Bloomfield Robert Bloomfield (3 December 1766 – 19 August 1823) was an English labouring-class poet, whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers, such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare. Life Robert Bloomfield ...

(1766–1823, E) * Elizabeth Blower (c. 1757/63 – post-1816, E) *

Edmund Blunden Edmund Charles Blunden (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was als ...

(1896–1974, E) *

Roy Blumenthal Roy Blumenthal (born in 1968 in Johannesburg, South Africa) has been an active poet since the early 1990s. He is the founder of Barefoot Press, which started out printing free pamphlets. Five editions were published, with a print run of 20 000 ...

(born 1968, SA) *

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (17 August 1840 – 10 September 1922), sometimes spelt Wilfred, was an English poet and writer. He and his wife Lady Anne Blunt travelled in the Middle East and were instrumental in preserving the Arabian horse bloodlines ...

(1840–1922, E) *

Robert Bly Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' (1990), which spent 62 weeks on ...

(1926–2021, US) *

Ali Blythe Ali Blythe is a Canadian poet and editor. He is author of a trilogy of books exploring trans-poetics: ''Twoism'' (2015), ''Hymnswitch'' (2019), and ''Stedfast'' (2023), two of which were finalists for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In 2017, he w ...

(living, C) * Barcroft Boake (1866–1892, A) * Robert Boates (born 1954, C) * Merlinda Bobis (born 1959, A) *

Louise Bogan Louise Bogan ( – ) was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title.. Throughout her life she wrote poetry, fiction, and criticism, and became the ...

(1897–1970, US) *

Michelle Boisseau Michelle Boisseau (October 26, 1955 – November 15, 2017) was an American poet. Life and career Boisseau was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 26, 1955. She attended Ohio University, where she received a BA in 1977 and an MA in 1980, and th ...

(1955–2017, US) *

Christian Bök Christian Bök, FRSC (; born August 10, 1966, in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian poet known for his experimental works. He is the author of ''Eunoia'', which won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. Life and work He was born "Christian Book", but ...

(born 1966, C) *

Osbern Bokenam Osbern Bokenam (c. 1393 – c. 1464, also spelt Bokenham) was an English Augustinian (Austin) friar and poet. He was a follower of Geoffrey Chaucer. Life Osbern Bokenam was born, according to his own account, on 6 October 1393. His name suggest ...

(c. 1393 – c. 1464, E) *

George Henry Boker George Henry Boker (October 6, 1823 – January 2, 1890) was an American poet, playwright, and diplomat. Early years and education Boker was born in Philadelphia. His father was Charles S. Boker, a wealthy banker, whose financial expertise w ...

(1823–1890, US) *

Eavan Boland Eavan Aisling Boland ( ; 24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996. Her work deals with the Irish national identity, and the role o ...

(1944–2020, Ir) *

Alan Bold Alan Norman Bold (1943–1998) was a Scottish poet, biographer, journalist and saxophonist. He was born in Edinburgh. He edited Hugh MacDiarmid's ''Letters'' and wrote the influential biography ''MacDiarmid''. Bold had acquainted himself with MacD ...

(1943–1998, S) *

Dermot Bolger Dermot Bolger (born 1959) is an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and editor from Dublin, Ireland. Born in the Finglas suburb of Dublin in 1959, his older sister is the writer June Considine. Bolger's novels include ''Night Shift'' (1982), ''T ...

(born 1959, Ir) *

Stephanie Bolster Stephanie Bolster (born 1969) is a Canadian poet and professor of creative writing at Concordia University, Montreal. History She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (1991) and a Master of Fine Arts (1994) from the University of Br ...

(born 1969, C) *

Edmund Bolton :''This is an article about the 17th-century poet. For the reality TV participant, see Beauty and the Geek (UK TV series)'' Edmund Mary Bolton () was an English historian and poet who was born, by his own account, in 1575. Life Nothing is known ...

(c. 1575 – c. 1633) * Ken Bolton (born 1949, A) *

Roger Bonair-Agard Roger Bonair-Agard is a poet and performance artist. He has made numerous television and radio appearances, has led countless workshops and lectures, and has performed his poetry at many US universities as well as at international festivals in Ger ...

(living, J/US) *

Horatius Bonar Horatius Bonar (; 19 December 180831 July 1889) was a Scottish churchman and poet who was a contemporary and acquaintance of Robert Murray M'cheyne. He is principally remembered as a prodigious hymnodist. Friends knew him as Horace Bo ...

(1808–1889, S) *

Elizabeth Bonhôte Elizabeth Bonhôte, née Mapes (baptised 11 April 1744 – 11 June 1818) was an English novelist, essayist and poet. Her most successful work was ''Bungay Castle (novel), Bungay Castle'', a Gothic romance written after her husband had bought the ...

(1744–1818, E) *

Sean Bonney Sean Noel Bonney (21 May 1969 – 13 November 2019) was an English poet born in Brighton and brought up in the north of England. He lived in London and, from 2015 up until the time of his death, in Berlin. He was married to the poet Frances Kruk ...

(1969–2019, E) * Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902–1973, US) * Shane Book (living, C) *

Luke Booker Rev. Luke Booker (20 October 1762 – 1 October 1835) LL.D., FRLS was an English Anglican clergyman, poet and antiquary, with a long list of published sermons and poetry. As a cleric he was strongly linked with the town of Dudley, then an excl ...

(1762–1835, E) * Kurt Boone (born 1959, US) *

Henry Ernest Boote Henry Ernest Boote (1865 – 1949) was a prolific and influential Australian editor, journalist, propagandist, poet, and fiction writer. He was an ardent trade unionist and socialist whose writings supported and sought to influence the Austral ...

(1865–1949, A) * Ivan Bootham (1939–2016, NZ) *

Pat Boran Pat Boran (born 1963) is an Irish poetry, Irish poet. Biography Born in Portlaoise, Boran has lived in Dublin for a number of years. He is the publisher of the Dedalus Press which specialises in contemporary poetry from Ireland, and interna ...

(born 1963, Ir) * Jenny Bornholdt (born 1960, NZ) *

Roo Borson Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson (born January 20, 1952, in Berkeley, California) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. After undergraduate studies at UC Santa Barbara and Goddard College, she received an MFA from t ...

(born 1952, C) *

Keith Bosley Keith Anthony Bosley (16 September 1937 – 24 June 2018) was a British poet, translator, and Presenter (radio), radio broadcaster. Born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, he studied French at university before starting his career at the BBC, where ...

(1937–2018, E) *

Anne Lynch Botta Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (November 11, 1815 – March 23, 1891) was an American poet, writer, teacher and socialite whose home was the central gathering place of the literary elite of her era. Biography Early life She was born Anne Charlotte L ...

(1815–1891, US) *

Gordon Bottomley Gordon Bottomley (20 February 187425 August 1948) was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by tubercular illness. His main influences were the later Victorian Romantic poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and Wi ...

(1874–1948, E) *

David Bottoms David Bottoms (September 11, 1949 – March 2023) was an American poet, novelist, and academic. He was Poet Laureate of Georgia from 2000 to 2012. Biography Bottoms' first book, ''Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump'', was selected by Robert ...

(born 1949, US) *

Jenny Boult Jenny Boult (8 October 1951 – 1 November 2005), also known as MML Bliss, was an Australian poet, playwright, and editor. Early life and education Jennifer Boult was born in Warwickshire, England, in 1951, migrating to Western Australia with he ...

(MML Bliss, 1951–2005, A) *

Francis William Bourdillon Francis William Bourdillon (22 March 1852 at Runcorn, Cheshire, England – 13 January 1921 at Buddington, Midhurst) was a British poet and translator. He is known also as a bibliophile. Life Born at Trinity Parsonage, Halton Road, Runcorn, Che ...

(1852–1921, E) *

Arthur Bourinot Arthur Stanley Bourinot, SM (November 3, 1893 – January 17, 1969) was a Canadian lawyer, scholar, and poet. "His carefully researched historical and biographical books and articles on Canadian poets, such as Duncan Campbell Scott, Archib ...

(1893–1969, C) *

John Philip Bourke John Philip Bourke (5 August 1857 – 13 January 1914) was an Australian poet. Bourke was born in Nundle, New South Wales, on the Peel River diggings, New South Wales, the son of William David Bourke, butcher, and his wife Jane, ''née'' She ...

(1860–1914, A) * Jane Bowdler (1743–1784, E) *

George Bowering George Harry Bowering, (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Life and career Bowering was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and rai ...

(born 1936, C) *

Marilyn Bowering Marilyn Bowering (born April 13, 1949) is a Canadian poet, novelist and playwright. As well as several adventure novels and many books of poetry, Bowering has also scripted a number of dramatic works and a libretto. Personal life Bowering was b ...

(born 1949, C) *

Cathy Smith Bowers Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949) is an American poet and professor. She teaches poetry in an M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte. Bowers was named by Governor Bev Perdue as the sixth North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2010–2012. She has ...

(born 1949, US) * Edgar Bowers (1924–2000, US) *

Tim Bowling Tim Bowling (born 1964 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Guggenheim winning Canadian novelist and poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He has published four novels. He was a judge for the 2 ...

(born 1964, C) * Alex Boyd (born 1969, C) *

Louise Esther Vickroy Boyd Louise Vickroy Boyd (January 2, 1827 – July 25, 1909) was an American writer. She was born Louise Esther Vickroy in Urbana, Ohio and moved to Ferndale, Pennsylvania. She was educated in Lancaster and Philadelphia. She taught school until Sept ...

(1827–1909, US) *

Mark Alexander Boyd Mark Alexander Boyd (13 January 1562 – 10 April 1601) was a Scottish poet and soldier of fortune. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. His father was from Penkill, Carrick, in Ayrshire. He was educated under the care of his uncle, the Arc ...

(1563–1601, S) *

Kay Boyle Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist. Boyle is best known for her fiction, which often explored the intersections of personal and political themes. Her ...

(1902–1992, US) *

Peter Boyle Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor. He is known for his character actor roles in film and television and received several awards including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. ...

(born 1951, A) * Samuel Boyse (1702/1703–1749, Ir/E) *

Virginia Frazer Boyle Virginia Frazer Boyle (February 14, 1863 – December 13, 1938) was an American author of prose and poetry. Interested in the Confederacy, she wrote several novels and more than 100 poems that took up various aspects and presented inspirational p ...

(1863–1938, US)

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* Francis Brabazon (1907–1984, A) *

Thomas Bracken Thomas Bracken ( December 1843 – 16 February 1898) was an Irish-born New Zealand poet, journalist and politician. He wrote " God Defend New Zealand", one of the two national anthems of New Zealand, and was the first person to publish the phr ...

(1843–1898, NZ) * Alison Brackenbury (born 1953, E) * Anna Braden (1858–1939, US) *

James Bradley James Bradley (September 1692 – 13 July 1762) was an English astronomer and priest who served as the third Astronomer Royal from 1742. He is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light (1725–1728), and ...

(born 1967, A) *

Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet (née Dudley; March 8, 1612 – September 16, 1672) was among the most prominent of early English poets of North America and the first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan ...

(c. 1612–1672, US) * Robert Bradstreet (1766–1836, E) * E. J. Brady (1869–1952, A) *

Kate Braid Kathleen (Kate) Braid (born March 19, 1947) is a Canadian poet. Born in Calgary, Alberta, she was raised in Montreal, Quebec, and graduated from Mount Allison University. Her poems and personal essays have been widely printed and anthologized. Sh ...

(born 1947, C) * Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite (1963–2008, C) * Shannon Bramer (born 1973, C) *

Bertha Southey Brammall Bertha Southey Brammall ( Adams; 10 December 1878 – 10 February 1957) was an Australian writer. A direct descendant of English Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Brammall wrote material for children's radio programs as well as poems, novels and s ...

(1878–1957, A) * James Bramston (c. 1694–1743, E) *

Dionne Brand Dionne Brand (born 7 January 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third Poet Laureate from September 2009 to November 2012 and first Black Poet Laureate. She was admitted to the Order of Canada in ...

(born 1953, C) *

Di Brandt Di Brandt (''née'' Janzen; 31 January 1952) often stylized as di brandt, is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018. Life and career Brandt grew up in Reinland, a Mennonite farming ...

(born 1952, C) *

Charles Brasch Charles Orwell Brasch (27 July 1909 – 20 May 1973) was a New Zealand poet, literary editor and arts patron. He was the founding editor of the literary journal ''Landfall'', and through his 20 years of editing the journal, had a significant i ...

(1909–1973, NZ) *

Giannina Braschi Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include '' Empire of Dreams'' (1988), '' Yo-Yo Boing!'' (1998), '' United States of Banana'' (2011), and '' Putinoika'' (2024). ...

(born 1953, US) *

Kamau Brathwaite Edward Kamau Brathwaite, CHB (; 11 May 1930 – 4 February 2020), was a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon.Staff (2011)"Kamau Brathwaite." New York University, Department of Co ...

(1930–2020, B) *

Richard Brautigan Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. He wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four books of poetry. Brautigan's work has been publi ...

(1935–1984, US) *

John Jefferson Bray John Jefferson Bray, (16 September 1912 – 26 June 1995) was an Australian lawyer, judge, academic, university administrator, Crown officer, and poet. From 1967 to 1978, he served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia. ...

(1912–1995, A) * Diana Brebner (1956–2001, C) *

Jean "Binta" Breeze Jean "Binta" Breeze MBE (11 March 1956 – 4 August 2021)Sheri Elaine Metzger"Jean "Binta" Breeze 1956–" Contemporary Black Biography, 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 4 March 2013. was a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller, acknowledged as the first ...

(1956–2021, J) *

Christopher Brennan Christopher John Brennan (1 November 1870 – 5 October 1932) was an Australian poet, scholar and literary critic. Biography Brennan was born in Haymarket, an inner suburb of Sydney, to Christopher Brennan (d. 1919), a brewer, and his wife ...

(1870–1932, A) *

Breyten Breytenbach Breyten Breytenbach (; 16 September 193924 November 2024) was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisoner of ...

(born 1939, SA/F) * Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990, US) * Michael Brennan (born 1973, A) *

Jane Brereton Jane Brereton (1685–1740) was a Welsh poet who wrote in English. She was notable as a correspondent for ''The Gentleman's Magazine''.Alexander Chalmers (Ed.), ''The General Biographical Dictionary'' - A New Edition volume VI' (1812) Biography ...

(1685–1740, W) *

John Le Gay Brereton John Le Gay Brereton (2 September 1871 – 2 February 1933) was an Australian poet, critic and professor of English at the University of Sydney. He was the first president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers when it was formed in Sydney in ...

(1871–1933, A) *

Nicholas Breton Nicholas Breton (also Britton or Brittaine) (c. 1545/53 – c. 1625/6) was a poet and prose writer of the English Renaissance. Life Nicholas belonged to an old family settled at Layer Breton, Essex. His father, William Breton, a London merchant ...

(1542–1626, E) *

Brian Brett Brian Brett (April 28, 1950 – January 17, 2024) was a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and novelist.Lily Brett Lily Brett (born Lilijahne Brajtsztajn 5 September 1946) is an Australian novelist, essayist and poet. She lived in North Carlton and then Elwood/Caulfield (suburbs of Melbourne) from 1948 to 1968, in London 1968–1971, Melbourne (1971–1989 ...

(born 1946, A) *

Ken Brewer Kenneth Wayne Brewer (November 28, 1941 – March 15, 2006) was an American poet and longtime scholar who resided in Utah, where he served as Poet Laureate. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he attended Butler University and Western New Mexico ...

(1941–2006, US) * Elizabeth Brewster (1922–2012, C) * Martha Wadsworth Brewster (1710 – c. 1757, US) *

(born 1939, SA) *

Diana Bridge Diana Bridge (born 1942 in Wellington) is a New Zealand poet. She attended Queen Margaret College and Victoria University of Wellington. She lived most of her adult life in various parts of Asia, including India and China, and as an adult she ...

(born 1942, NZ) *

Robert Bridges Robert Seymour Bridges (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was a British poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is ...

(1844–1930, E) *

Kim Bridgford Kim Suzanne Bridgford (August 8, 1959 – June 28, 2020) was an American poet, writer, critic, and academic. In her poetry, she wrote primarily in traditional forms, particularly sonnets. She was the director of Poetry by the Sea: A Global Confer ...

(1959–2000, US) *

Robert Bringhurst Robert Bringhurst Appointments to the Order of Canada (2013). (born 1946) is a CanadianWong (1999). poet, typographer and author. He has translated substantial works from Haida and Navajo and from classical Greek and Arabic. He wrote ''The El ...

(born 1946, C) *

Geoffrey Brock Geoffrey Brock (born October 19, 1964) is an American poet and translator. Since 2006 he has taught creative writing and literary translation at the University of Arkansas, where he is Distinguished Professor of English. Biography Brock is the s ...

(born 1964, US) *

Eve Brodlique Eve Brodlique Summers (, Brodlique; 1867 – 10 October 1949), known by her pen names Willice Wharton, Peg Woffington and Evelyn, was a British-born Canadian-American author and journalist. One of the best-known newspaper women in North America, ...

(1867–1949, UK/C/US) *

Alexander Brome Alexander Brome (1620 – 30 June 1666) was an English poet. Life Brome was by profession an attorney, and was the author of many drinking songs and of satirical verses in favour of the Royalists and in opposition to the Rump Parliament. In 166 ...

(1620–1666, E) *

David Bromige David Mansfield Bromige (October 22, 1933 – June 3, 2009) was a Canadian-American poet who resided in northern California from 1962 onward. Bromige published thirty books, many so different from one another as to appear to be the work of ...

(1933–2009, C/US) *

William Bronk William Bronk (February 17, 1918 – February 22, 1999) was an American poet. For his book, ''Life Supports'' (1981), he won the National Book Award for Poetry. He was also a veteran of World War II and a businessman. After teaching at Union Col ...

(1918–1999, US) *

Anne Brontë Anne Brontë (, commonly ; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. Anne Brontë was the daughter of Maria ( Branwell) and Patrick Brontë, a poor Irish clergyman ...

(1820–1849, E) *

Branwell Brontë Patrick Branwell Brontë (, commonly ; 26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848) was an English painter and writer. He was the only son of the Brontë family, and brother of the writers Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte, Emily Brontë, Emily, and Anne Bro ...

(1817–1848, E) *

Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Nicholls (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ), was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë family, Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novel ...

(1816–1855, E) *

Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë (, commonly ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel, ''Wuthering Heights''. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte and Anne Bront� ...

(1818–1848, E) *

Rupert Brooke Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915The date of Brooke's death and burial under the Julian calendar that applied in Greece at the time was 10 April. The Julian calendar was 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar.) was an En ...

(1887–1915, E) * David Brooks (born 1953, A) *

Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poet ...

(1917–2000, US) *

Alice Williams Brotherton Alice Williams Brotherton (, Williams; April 4, 1848 – February 9, 1930) was an American author of poetry, essays, reviews, children's stories, and lyrics. Though she hailed from Indiana, she lived most of her life in Cincinnati, Ohio, serving ...

(1848–1930, US) *

Audrey Alexandra Brown Audrey Alexandra Brown, (29 October 1904 – 20 September 1998) was a Canadian poet. Biography Brown was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Her parents were Joseph Miller Brown (1867-1942), and his wife, Rosa Elizabeth Rumming (1872-1960). ...

(1904–1998, C) *

George Mackay Brown George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orkney, Orcadian character. He is widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century. Biography Early life a ...

(1921–1996, S) *

James Brown James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, and record producer. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is referred to by Honorific nick ...

(J. B. Selkirk, 1832–1904, S) *

Jericho Brown Jericho Brown (born April 14, 1976) is an American poet and writer. Born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brown has worked as an educator at institutions such as the University of Houston, the University of San Diego, and Emory University. Hi ...

(born 1976, US) *

Pam Brown Pamela Jane Barclay Brown (born 1948) is an Australian poet. Career Pam Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria. Most of her childhood was spent on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has lived in Melbourne an ...

(born 1948, A) *

Sterling Allen Brown Sterling Allen Brown (May 1, 1901 – January 13, 1989) was an American professor, folklorist, poet, and literary critic. He chiefly studied black culture of the Southern United States and was a professor at Howard University for most of his ca ...

(1901–1989, US) *

Stewart Brown Stewart Brown (born 1951 in Southampton, UK) is an English poet, university lecturer and scholar of African and Caribbean Literature.

(born 1951, E) *

Thomas Edward Brown Thomas Edward Brown (5 May 183029 October 1897), commonly referred to as T. E. Brown, was a late-19th century scholar, schoolmaster, poet, and theologian from the Isle of Man. Having achieved a double first at Christ Church, Oxford, and ele ...

(1830–1897, IoM) * Wayne Brown (1944–2009, T) *

Frances Browne Frances Browne (16 January 1816 – 21 August 1879) was an Irish poet and novelist, best remembered for her collection of short stories for children, ''Granny's Wonderful Chair''. Early life She was born at Stranorlar, in County Donegal, Ir ...

(1816–1879, Ir) * Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705–1760, E) *

Moses Browne Moses Browne (1703 – 13 September 1787), poet and cleric, suffers from uncertainty about the details of his birth. Some records suggest Severn Stoke in Worcestershire, but a London birth is more likely, as he became a pen-cutter in Clerkenwel ...

(1704–1787, E) *

Sir Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Browne ( "brown"; 19 October 160519 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a d ...

(1605–1682, E) * William Browne (1588–1643, E) *

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work receiv ...

(1806–1861, E/It) *

Robert Browning Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian literature, Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentar ...

(1812–1889, E/It) * Charles Tory Bruce (1906–1971, C) *

Mary Grant Bruce Mary Grant Bruce (born Minnie Grant Bruce, 24 May 1878 – 2 July 1958), was an Australian children's author and journalist. While all her thirty-seven books enjoyed popular success in Australia and overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom, ...

(1878–1958, A) *

Julie Bruck Julie Bruck is a Canadian-American poet who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2012 for her collection ''Monkey Ranch''.Ann Ireland"The Cloven Lychee Nut: Poems & Interview with Julie Bruck" ''Numéro Cinq'', October ...

(living, C) *

Dennis Brutus Dennis Vincent Brutus (28 November 1924 – 26 December 2009) was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have South Africa banned from the Olympic Games due to its racial policy of apartheid. ...

(1924–2009, SA) *

William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the '' New York Evening Post''. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poe ...

(1794–1878, US) *

Colette Bryce Colette Bryce is a poet, freelance writer, and editor. She was a Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee from 2003 to 2005, and a North East Literary Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 2005 to 2007. She was the ...

(born 1970, NI/E) *

Bryher Bryher () is one of the smallest inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly, with a population of 84 in 2011, spread across . Bryher exhibits a procession of prominent hills connected by low-lying necks and sandy bars. Landmarks include Hell Bay, ...

(Annie Winifred Ellerman, 1894–1983, E) *

Dugald Buchanan Dugald Buchanan (Dùghall Bochanan in Gaelic) (Ardoch Farm, Strathyre (near Balquhidder) in Perthshire, Scotland 1716–1768) was a Scottish poet writing in Scots and Scottish Gaelic. He helped the Rev. James Stuart or Stewart of Killin to tr ...

(1716–1768, S) *

George Buchanan George Buchanan (; February 1506 – 28 September 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was "the most profound intellectual sixteenth-century Scotland produced." His ideology of re ...

(1506–1582, S) *

Robert Williams Buchanan Robert Williams Buchanan (18 August 1841 – 10 June 1901) was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist. Early life and education He was the son of Robert Buchanan (1813–1866), Owenite lecturer and journalist, and was born at Caverswall, ...

(1841–1901, S) *

Vincent Buckley Vincent Thomas Buckley (8 July 1925 – 12 November 1988) was an Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic. Life Buckley was born in 1925 in Romsey, Victoria to Patrick Buckley, a carter and sometime farm labourer, and his wife Fra ...

(1925–1988, A) *

Charles Buckmaster Charles Buckmaster (1951–1972) was an Australian poet. He was involved in the publication of ''The Great Auk''. During his lifetime, he published two volumes of poetry, both reprinted after his death by the University of Queensland Press c ...

(1950–1972, A) * David Budbill (1940–2016, US) * Andrea Hollander Budy (born 1947, US) *

Suzanne Buffam Suzanne Buffam is a Canadian poet, author of three collections of poetry, and associate professor of practice in the arts at the University of Chicago. Her third collection, ''A Pillow Book'', was named by the New York Times as one of the ten best ...

(living, C) *

Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German Americans, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambien ...

(1920–1994, US) * April Bulmer (born 1963, C) *

Rhoda Bulter Rhoda Bulter (15 July 1929 – 1994), Shetland author, is one of the best-known Shetland poets of recent times. Biography Born Rhoda Jernetta Ann Johnson, in Lerwick, she was the daughter of Jeremiah Johnson, seaman, from West Houlland in the ...

(1929–1994, S) *

Basil Bunting Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of '' Briggflatts'' in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist traditi ...

(1900–1985, E) *

Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his Utopian and dystopian fiction, dy ...

(1917–1993, E) *

Haldane Burgess James John (J.J.) Haldane Burgess (28 May 1862 – 16 January 1927) was a Shetland historian, poet, novelist, violinist, linguist and socialist, a noted figure in Shetland's cultural history. His published works include ''Rasmie's Büddie, Som ...

(1862–1927, S) * Andrew Burke (1944–2023, A) * Murdoch Burnett (1953–2015, C) * Joanne Burns (born 1945, A) *

Robert Burns Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the List of national poets, national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the be ...

(1759–1796, S) * Stanley Burnshaw (1906–2005, US) *

John Burnside John Burnside (19 March 1955 – 29 May 2024) was a Scottish writer. He was one of four poets (with Ted Hughes, Sean O'Brien and Jason Allen-Paisant) to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for a single book – in th ...

(born 1955, S) * Sophia Burrell (1753–1802, E) *

William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major Postmodern literature, postmodern author who influen ...

(1914–1997, US) *

Mick Burrs Mick Burrs (April 1940 – April 20, 2021) was a Canadian poet who lived in Toronto, Ontario. He was born and raised in California, and after leaving the United States to avoid the Vietnam War, he spent much of his life in Yorkton, Saskatchewan ...

(1940–2021, C) * Duncan Bush (1946–2017, W/E) *

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (née Olivia Ward; February 27, 1869 – April 8, 1944) was an American author, poet and journalist of African-American and Montaukett Native American heritage. Ward celebrated both of her heritages in her poetry and writi ...

(1869–1944, US) *Aaron Bushkowsky (born 1957, C) *Guy Butler (poet), Guy Butler (1918–2001, SA) *Samuel Butler (poet), Samuel Butler (1612–1680, E) *Ray Buttigieg (born 1955, M) *Anthony Butts (born 1969, US) *A. S. Byatt (1936–2023, E) *Kathryn Stripling Byer (1944–2017, US) *Witter Bynner (Emanuel Morgan, 1881–1968, US) *George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824, E/It)

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Ca–Ci

*Richard Caddel (1949–2003, E) *Caroline Caddy (born 1944, A) *Charmaine Cadeau (living, C) *Adrian Caesar (born 1955, A) *Stephen Cain (poet), Stephen Cain (born 1970, C) *Scott Cairns (born 1954, US) *Alison Calder (born 1969, C) *Angus Calder (1942–2008, S) *Alex Caldiero (born 1949, US) *Frank Oliver Call (1878–1956, C) *Barry Callaghan (born 1937, C) *Michael Feeney Callan (living, Ir) *Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884, E) *Robert Calvert (1945–1988, E) *Anne Cameron (Cam Hubert, 1938–2022, C) *Norman Cameron (poet), Norman Cameron (1905–1953, S) *Jason Camlot (born 1967, C) *A. Y. Campbell (1885–1958, S) *Alistair Campbell (poet), Alistair Campbell (1925–2009, NZ) *Angus Peter Campbell (living, S) *David Campbell (poet), David Campbell (1915–1979, A) *Elizabeth Campbell (poet), Elizabeth Campbell (born 1980, A) *Joseph Campbell (poet), Joseph Campbell (1879–1944, Ir) *Meg Campbell (1937–2007, NZ) *Paul-Henri Campbell (born 1982, US) *Roy Campbell (poet), Roy Campbell (1901–1957, SA) *Thomas Campbell (poet), Thomas Campbell (1774–1844, S/E) *William Wilfred Campbell (1860–1918, C) *Thomas Campion (1567–1620, E) *Melville Henry Cane (1879–1980, US) *Mary Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973, E) *Moya Cannon (born 1956, Ir) *Edward Capern (1819–1894, E) *Vahni Capildeo (born 1973, T/S) *Natalee Caple (born 1970, C) *Thomas Carew (1595–1639, E) *Henry Carey (writer), Henry Carey (1693–1743, E) *Robert Carliell (died c. 1622, E) *Bliss Carman (1861–1929, C/US) *Clyde Carr (1886–1962, NZ) *Fern G. Z. Carr (born 1956, C) *Jim Carroll (1949–2009, US) *Lewis Carroll (1832–1898, E) *Hayden Carruth (1921–2008, US) *A.J. Carruthers (living, A) *Ann Elizabeth Carson (1929–2023, C) *Anne Carson (born 1950, C) *Ciaran Carson (1948–2019, NI) *Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806, E) *Jared Carter (poet), Jared Carter (born 1939, US) *William Cartwright (dramatist), William Cartwright (1611–1643, E) *Raymond Carver (1938–1988, US) *Alice Cary (1820–1871, US) *Phoebe Cary (1824–1871, US) *Marietta Stanley Case (1845–1900, US) *James Casey (poet-priest), James Casey (1824–1909, Ir) *Juanita Casey (1925–2012, E) *Neal Cassady (1926–1968, US) *Cyrus Cassells (born 1957, US) *Ana Castillo (born 1953, US) *Lee Cataldi (born 1942, A) *Nancy Cato (1917–2000, A) *Charles Causley (1917–2003, E) *Nick Cave (born 1957, A) *George Cavendish (writer), George Cavendish (1494 – c. 1562, E) *Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673, E) *Kate Cayley (living, C) *Susanna Centlivre (c. 1667/1670 – 1723, E) *Thomas Centolella (living, US) *Joseph Ceravolo (1934–1988, US) *John Chalkhill (fl. 1600, E) *Gordon Challis (1932–2018, NZ) *Weyman Chan (born 1963, C) *Catherine Chandler (born 1950, C) *Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807–1834, US) *Diana Chang (1924–2009, US) *William Ellery Channing (poet), William Ellery Channing (1818–1901, US) *Arthur Chapman (poet), Arthur Chapman (1873–1935, US) *George Chapman (1560–1634, E) *Patrick Chapman (born 1968, Ir) *Fred Chappell (1936–2024, US) *Craig Charles (born 1964, E) *James Charlton (poet), James Charlton (born 1947, A) *Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770, E) *Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400, E) *Angelico Chavez (1910–1996, US) *Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945, SLe) *Maxine Chernoff (born 1952, US) *Kelly Cherry (1940–2022, US) *G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936, E) *Thomas Chestre (late 14th c., E) *James Wm. Chichetto (born 1941, US) *Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880, US) *Harriet L. Childe-Pemberton (1852–1922, E) *Billy Childish (born 1959, E) *Marilyn Chin (born 1955, US) *Staceyann Chin (born 1972, J) *Eileen Chong (poet), Eileen Chong (born 1980, A) *Robert Choquette (1905–1991, C) *Lesley Choyce (born 1951, C) *Margaret Christakos (born 1962, C) *Evie Christie (living, C) *Ralph Chubb (1892–1960, E) *Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710, E) *Hubert Newman Wigmore Church (1857–1932, A) *Richard Church (poet), Richard Church (1893–1972, E) *Charles Churchill (satirist), Charles Churchill (1731–1764, E) *John Ciardi (1916–1986, US) *Colley Cibber (1671–1757, E) *Charl Cilliers (writer), Charl Cilliers (born 1941, SA) *Sandra Cisneros (born 1954, US) *Carson Cistulli (born 1979, US)

Cl

*Amy Clampitt (1920–1994, US *Kate Clanchy (born 1965, S) *John Clanvowe (c. 1341–1391, W/E) *John Clare (1793–1864, E) *Dave Clark (Canadian musician), Dave Clark (living, C) *Douglas Clark (poet), Douglas Clark (1942–2010, E) *Joan Ure, Elizabeth Clark (1918–1978, S) *Emily Clark (novelist), Emily Clark (fl. 1798–1833, E) *Ross Clark (poet), Ross Clark (born 1953, A) *Tom Clark (poet), Tom Clark (1941–2018, US) *Thomas Clark (writer), Thomas Clark (born 1980, S) *Amy Key Clarke (1892–1980, E) *Austin Clarke (poet), Austin Clarke (1886–1974, Ir) *George Elliott Clarke (born 1960, C) *Gillian Clarke (born 1937, W) *John Clarke (poet), Jack Clarke (1933–1992, US) *Marcus Clarke (1846–1881, A) *Brian P. Cleary (born 1959, US) *Brendan Cleary (born 1958, NI) *William Cleland (poet), William Cleland (1661–1689, S) *Justin Clemens (born 1969, A) *Benjamin Clementine (born 1988, E/F) *Jack Clemo (1916–1994, E) *John Cleveland (1613–1658, E) *Michelle Cliff (1946–2016, J/US) *Wayne Clifford (born 1944, C) *Lucille Clifton (1936–2010, US) *Caroline Clive (1801–1873, E) *Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861, E)

Co–Cu

*Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976, US) *Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927, US) *Bob Cobbing (1920–2002, E) *Ellen Melicent Cobden (1848–1914, E) *Robbie Coburn (born 1994, A) *Alison Cockburn (awa Alison Rutherford, 1712–1794, S) *Alice Rollit Coe (1858–1940, US) *Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016, US) *Brian Coffey (1905–1995, Ir/F) *Fred Cogswell (1917–2004, C) *Leonard Cohen (1934–2016, C) *Matt Cohen (writer), Matt Cohen (1942–1999, C) *Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958, US) *Norma Cole (born 1945, C/US) *Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch (1945–2019, A) *Aidan Coleman (poet), Aidan Coleman (born 1976, A) *Victor Coleman (born 1944, C) *Wanda Coleman (1946–2013, US) *Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849, E) *Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907, E) *Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834, E) *Don Coles (1927–2017, C) *Katharine Coles (born 1959, US) *Edward Coletti (living, US) *Mary Collier (c. 1688–1762, E) *Billy Collins (born 1941, US) *John Collins (poet), John Collins (1742–1808, E) *William Collins (poet), William Collins (1721–1759, E) *Laurence Collinson (1925–1986, A) *Stephen Collis (living, C) *John Robert Colombo (born 1936, C) *Glenn Colquhoun (born 1964, NZ) *Padraic Colum (1881–1972, Ir/US) *Anna Olcott Commelin (1841–1924, US) *Anne Compton (born 1947, C) *Wayde Compton (born 1972, C) *Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934, US) *William Congreve (1670–1729, E) *Jan Conn (born 1952, C/US) *Stewart Conn (born 1936, S) *Paul Conneally (born 1959, E) *Karen Connelly (born 1969, C) *Kevin Connolly (writer), Kevin Connolly (born 1962, C) *Susan Connolly (poet), Susan Connolly (born 1956, Ir) *Robert Conquest (1917–2015, E) *Tony Conran (1931–2013, W) *Henry Constable (1562–1613, E/F) *David Constantine (born 1944, E) *Eliza Cook (1818–1889, E) *Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (born 1930, US) *Sophie Cooke (born 1976, S) *Ina Coolbrith (1841–1928, US) *Dennis Cooley (born 1944, C) *Clark Coolidge (born 1939, US) *Afua Cooper (born 1957, J/C) *Thomas Cooper (poet), Thomas Cooper (1805–1892, E) *John Cooper Clarke (born 1949, E) *Jack Cope (1913–1991, SA) *Wendy Cope (born 1945, E) *Judith Copithorne (born 1939, C) *Robert Copland (fl. 1508–1547, E) *A. E. Coppard (1878–1957, E) *Julia Copus (born 1969, E) *Richard Corbet (1582–1635, E) *Cid Corman (1924–2004, US) *Alfred Corn (born 1943, US) *Adam Cornford (born 1950, E) *Frances Cornford (1886–1960, E) *F. M. Cornford, Francis M. Cornford (1874–1943, E) *John Cornford (1915–1936, E) *Joe Corrie (1894–1968, S) *Gregory Corso (1930–2001, US) *Jayne Cortez (1936–2012, US) *William Johnson Cory (1823–1892, E) *Louisa Stuart Costello (1799–1877, Ir/F) *Charles Cotton (1630–1687, E) *Anna Couani (born 1948, A) *Anne Ross Cousin (1824–1906, E/S) *Dani Couture (born 1978, C) *Thomas Cowherd (1817–1907, C) *Abraham Cowley (1618–1667, E) *Hannah Cowley (writer), Hannah Cowley (1743–1809, E) *Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989, US) *Dorothy Cowlin (1911–2010, E) *William Cowper (1731–1800, E) *George Crabbe (1754–1832, E) *Christine Craig (born 1943, J) *Helen Craik (c. 1751–1825, S/E) *Hart Crane (1899–1932, US) *Stephen Crane (1871–1900, US) *Richard Crashaw (1613–1649, E) *Isabella Valancy Crawford (1846–1887, C) *Robert Crawford (Australian poet), Robert Crawford (1868–1930, A) *Robert Crawford (Scottish poet), Robert Crawford (born 1959, S) *Richard Crawley (1840–1893, W/E) *Morri Creech (born 1970, US) *Robert Creeley (1926–2006, US) *Caroline de Crespigny (1797–1861, E/G) *Walter D'Arcy Cresswell (1896–1960, NZ) *Louise Crisp (born 1957, A) *Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848, E) *Andy Croft (born 1956, E) *Julian Croft (born 1941, A) *Alison Croggon (born 1962, A) *Jeremy Cronin (born 1949, SA) *M. T. C. Cronin (born 1963, A) *Lynn Crosbie (born 1963, C) *Camilla Dufour Crosland (1812–1895, E) *Zora Cross (1890–1964, A) *Aleister Crowley (1875–1947, E) *Andrew Crozier (1943–2008, E) *Lorna Crozier (Lorna Uher, born 1948, C) *Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975, S) *Michael Crummey (born 1965, C) *Julie Crysler (living, C) *Anne Virginia Culbertson (1857–1918, US) *Catherine Ann Cullen (living, Ir) *Countee Cullen (1903–1946, US) *Nancy Jo Cullen (living, C) *Patrick Cullinan (1932–2011, SA) *E. E. Cummings (1894–1962, US) *Gary Cummiskey (born 1963, SA) *Allan Cunningham (author), Allan Cunningham (1784–1842, S/E) *J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985, US) *John Cunningham (poet and dramatist), John Cunningham (1729–1773, Ir/E) *Allen Curnow (1911–2001, NZ) *Margaret Curran (poet), Margaret Curran (1887–1962, A) *Jen Currin (living, US/C) *Tony Curtis (Welsh poet), Tony Curtis (born 1946, W) *Tony Curtis (Irish poet), Tony Curtis (born 1955, Ir) *James Cuthbertson (1851–1910, A) *Ivor Cutler (1923–2006, S) *Lidija Cvetkovic (born 1967, A) *Kayla Czaga (born 1989, C)

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Da–Do

*H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886–1961, US) *Cyril Dabydeen (living, Gu/C) *David Dabydeen (born 1955, Gu) *Kalli Dakos (living, C) *Victor Daley (1858–1905, A) *Mary Dalton (born 1950, C) *Pádraig J. Daly (born 1943, Ir) *Raymond Garfield Dandridge (1882/1883–1930, US) *Joseph A. Dandurand (living, C) *Achmat Dangor (born 1948, SA) *Samuel Daniel (1562–1619, E) *David Daniels (poet), David Daniels (1933–2008, US) *Jeffrey Daniels (author), Jeffrey Daniels (living, US) *George Darley (1795–1846, Ir) *Tina Darragh (born 1950, US) *Keki N. Daruwalla (born 1937, In) *Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802, E) *Elizabeth Daryush (1887–1977, E) *Robert von Dassanowsky (Robert Dassanowsky) (born 1965, US) *Beverley Daurio (born 1953, C) *William Davenant (1606–1668, E) *Guy Davenport (1927–2005, US) *Frank Davey (born 1940, C) *Donald Davidson (poet), Donald Davidson (1893–1968, US) *John Davidson (poet), John Davidson (1857–1909, S/E) *Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825, US) *Michael Davidson (poet), Michael Davidson (born 1944, US) *Donald Davie (1922–1995, E) *Alan Davies (poet), Alan Davies (born 1951, US) *Deborah Kay Davies (living, W) *Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984, E) *Idris Davies (1905–1953, W) *John Davies (poet, born 1569), John Davies (1569–1626, E) *W. H. Davies (1871–1940, W) *Nicholas Flood Davin (1840–1901, C) *Olive Dehn (1914–2007, E) *Beatrice Deloitte Davis (1909–1992, A) *Jon Davis (poet), Jon Davis (living, US) *Norma Davis (1905–1945, A) *Tanya Davis (living, C) *Thomas Davis (Young Irelander), Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845, Ir) *Edward Davison (poet), Edward Davison (1898–1970, S/US) *Peter Davison (poet), Peter Davison (1928–2004, US) *Bruce Dawe (1930–2020, A) *Kwame Dawes (born 1962, US) *Tom Dawe (born 1940, C) *Jeffery Day (1896–1918, E) *Sarah Day (born 1958, A) *Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972, E) *Adriana de Barros (born 1976, C) *Somerset de Chair (1911–1995, E) *Jean Louis De Esque (1879–1956, US) *Madeline DeFrees (1919–2015, US) *Celia de Fréine (born 1948, Ir) *Ingrid de Kok (born 1951, SA) *Walter de la Mare (1873–1956, E) *Christine De Luca (born 1947, S) *Sadiqa de Meijer (born 1977, C) *Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604, E) *Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 1966, SA) *James Deahl (born 1945, C) *Dulcie Deamer (1890–1972, A) *John F. Deane (born 1943, Ir) *Joel Deane (born 1969, A) *Patrick Deeley (born 1953, Ir) *Madeline DeFrees (1919–2015, US) *Thomas Dekker (writer), Thomas Dekker (1575–1641, E) *Greg Delanty (born 1958, Ir/US) *Kris Demeanor (living, C) *Barry Dempster (born 1952, C) *Joe Denham (living, C) *John Denham (poet), John Denham (1615–1669, E) *C. J. Dennis (1876–1938, A) *John Dennison (poet), John Dennison (born 1978, NZ) *Tory Dent (1958–2005, US) *Enid Derham (1882–1941, A) *Thomas Dermody (1775–1802, Ir) *Toi Derricotte (born 1941, US) *Heather Derr-Smith (born 1971, US) *Michelle Desbarats (living, C) *Babette Deutsch (1895–1982, US) *James Devaney (1890–1976, A) *Mary Deverell (1731–1805, E) *Denis Devlin (1908–1959, Ir) *George E. Dewar (1895–1969, NZ) *Christopher Dewdney (born 1951, C] *Imtiaz Dharker (born 1954, P/W) *Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (1949–2019, C) *Mary di Michele (born 1949, C) *Diane di Prima (1934–2020, US) *Ann Diamond (living, C) *Natalie Diaz (born 1978, US) *Anne Dick (died 1741, S) *Jennifer K Dick (born 1970, US) *James Dickey (1923–1997, US) *Adam Dickinson (living, C) *Emily Dickinson (1830–1886, US) *Matthew Dickman (born 1975, US) *Michael Dickman (born 1975, US) *Robert Dickson (writer), Robert Dickson (1944–2007, C) *Peter Didsbury (born 1946, E) *Modikwe Dikobe (1913–?, SA) *Des Dillon (writer), Des Dillon (living, S) *John Dillon (1851–1927, Ir) *B. R. Dionysius (born 1969, A) *Ray DiPalma (1943–2016, US) *Thomas M. Disch (born 1940, US) *Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956, In/US) *Isobel Dixon (born 1969, SA/E) *Sarah Dixon (1671–1765, E) *William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879, E) *Angifi Dladla (born 1950, SA) *Tim Dlugos (1950–1990, US) *Kildare Dobbs (1923–2013, C) *Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921, E) *Rosemary Dobson (1920–2012, A) *Stephen Dobyns (born 1941, US) *Jeramy Dodds (born 1974, C) *Robert Dodsley (1703–1764, E) *Pete Doherty (born 1979, E) *Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867, E) *Joe Dolce (born 1947, US/A) *Don Domanski (born 1950, C) *Magie Dominic (born 1944, C) *Jeffery Donaldson (living, C) *John Donaldson (author), John Donaldson (Jon Inglis, 1921–1989, E) *John Donne (1572–1631, E) *David Donnell (born 1939, C) *Timothy Donnelly (born 1969, US) *Gerard Donovan (born 1959, Ir/E) *Theo Dorgan (born 1953, Ir) *Ed Dorn (1929–1999, US) *Catherine Ann Dorset (1752–1834, E) *Candas Jane Dorsey (born 1952, C) *Mark Doty (born 1953, US) *Clive Doucet (born 1946, C) *Sarah Doudney (1841–1926, E) *Lucy Dougan (born 1966, A) *Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926, E) *Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945, E) *Alice May Douglas (1865–1943, US) *Gavin Douglas (c. 1474–1522, S) *George Brisbane Scott Douglas (1856–1935, S) *Keith Douglas (1920–1944, E) *Orville Lloyd Douglas (born 1976, C) *Rita Dove (born 1952, US) *Basil Dowling (1910–2000, NZ) *Finuala Dowling (born 1962, SA) *Gordon Downie (1964–2017, C) *Ellen Mary Patrick Downing (1828–1869, Ir) *Ernest Dowson (1867–1900, E) *Francis Hastings Doyle (1810–1888, E) *Kirby Doyle (1932–2003, US)

Dr–Dy

*Michael Dransfield (1948–1973, A) *Jane Draycott (born 1954, E) *Michael Drayton (1563–1631, E) *John Swanwick Drennan (1809–1893, Ir) *William Drennan (1754–1820, Ir) *Adam Drinan (also Joseph Macleod, 1903–1984, E) *John Drinkwater (playwright), John Drinkwater (1882–1937, E) *William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649, S) *William Henry Drummond (1854–1907, C) *John Dryden (1631–1700, E) *W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963, US) *I. D. du Plessis (1900–1981, SA) *Klara du Plessis (living, SA/C) *Norman Dubie (born 1945, US) *Stephen Duck (c. 1705–1756, E) *Louis Dudek (1918–2001, S) *Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955, S) *Charles Gavan Duffy (Australian politician), Charles Gavan Duffy (1816–1903, Ir/A) *Maureen Duffy (born 1933, E) *Alan Dugan (1923–2003, J/US) *Michael Dugan (poet), Michael Dugan (1947–2006, A) *Sasha Dugdale (born 1974, E) *Eileen Duggan (1894–1972, NZ) *Laurie Duggan (born 1949, A) *Jas H. Duke (1939–1992, A) *Richard Duke (1658–1711, E) *Tug Dumbly (Geoff Forrester, living, A) *Marilyn Dumont (born 1955, C) *Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906, US) *Robert Nugent Dunbar (1798–1866, Ag) *William Dunbar (1459/1460 – c. 1530, S) *Andrew Duncan (poet), Andrew Duncan (born 1956, E) *Robert Duncan (poet), Robert Duncan (1919–1988, US) *Camille Dungy (born 1972, US) *Helen Dunmore (1952–2017, E) *Douglas Dunn (born 1942, S) *Max Dunn (died 1963, A) *Stephen Dunn (1939–2021, US) *Joe Dunthorne (born 1982, W) *Paul Durcan (1944–2025, Ir) *Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990, E) *Anne Dutton (1692–1765, E) *Geoffrey Dutton (1922–1998, A) *Stuart Dybek (born 1942, US) *Edward Dyer (1543–1607, E) *John Dyer (1699–1758, W) *Bob Dylan (born 1941, US) *Edward Dyson (1865–1931, A)

E

*Joan Adeney Easdale (1913–1998, E) *Evelyn Eaton (1902–1983, C) *Richard Eberhart (1904–2005, US) *Emily Eden (1797–1869, E) *Helen Parry Eden (1885–1960, E) *Stephen Edgar (born 1951, A) *Lauris Edmond (1924–2000, NZ) *Russell Edson (1928–2014, US) *Richard Edwardes (c. 1523–1566, E) *Dic Edwards (born 1953, W) *Jonathan Edwards (poet), Jonathan Edwards (born 1979, W) *Rhian Edwards (poet), Rhian Edwards (living, W/E) *Helen Merrill Egerton (1866–1951, C) *Terry Ehret (born 1955, US) *Vic Elias (1948–2006, US/C) *Anne Elder (1918–1976, A) *George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans, 1819–1880, E) *T. S. Eliot (1888–1965, US/E) *Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818–1877, US) *Lady Charlotte Elliot, Charlotte Elliot (1839–1880, S) *David Elliott (poet), David Elliott (1923–1999, C) *Julia Anne Elliott (1809–1841, E) *Jean Elliot (1727–1805, S) *Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849, E) *George Ellis (poet), George Ellis (1753–1815, E) *Royston Ellis (born 1941, E) *Chris Else (born 1942, NZ) *Rebecca Elson (1960–1999, C) *Crispin Elsted (living, C) *Edmund Elviden (fl. 1570, E) *Claudia Emerson (1957–2014, US) *Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882, US) *Chris Emery (born 1963, E) *William Empson (1906–1984, E) *Paul Engle (1908–1991, US) *John Ennis (poet), John Ennis (born 1944, Ir) *Karen Enns (living, C) *D. J. Enright (1920–2002, E) *Riemke Ensing (born 1939, NZ) *Theodore Enslin (1925–2011, US) *Louise Erdrich (born 1954, US) *Ralph Erskine (preacher), Ralph Erskine (1685–1752, S) *Clayton Eshleman (1935–2021, US) *Martín Espada (born 1957, US) *Rhina Espaillat (born 1932, US) *Ramabai Espinet (born 1948, T) *Jill Alexander Essbaum (born 1971, US) *Maggie Estep (1963–2014, US) *Michael Estok (1939–1989, C) *Jerry Estrin (1947–1993, US) *George Etherege (1635–1691, E) *Anne Evans (poet), Anne Evans (1820–1870, E) *Christine Evans (poet), Christine Evans (born 1943, E/W) *George Essex Evans (1863–1909, A) *Margiad Evans (Peggy Whistler, 1909–1958, E) *Mari Evans (1919–2017, US) *Sebastian Evans (1830–1909, E) *William Everson (poet), William Everson (Brother Antoninus, 1912–1994, US) *Gavin Ewart (1916–1995, E) *John K. Ewers (1904–1978, A) *Elisabeth Eybers (1915–2007, SA/Nt)

F

*Frederick William Faber (1814–1863, E) *Diane Fahey (born 1945, A) *Ruth Fainlight (born 1931, US/E) *Kingsley Fairbridge (1885–1924, SA) *A. R. D. Fairburn (1904–1957, NZ) *Maria and Harriet Falconar (born c. 1771–1774, E or S) *William Falconer (poet), William Falconer (1732–1769, S) *Padraic Fallon (1905–1974, Ir) *Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834, E) *U. A. Fanthorpe (1929–1909, E) *Patricia Fargnoli (born 1937, US) *Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965, E) *Fiona Farrell (born 1947, NZ) *John Farrell (Australian poet), John Farrell (1851–1904, A) *John Farrell (poet), John Farrell (1968–2010, US) *Michael Farrell (poet), Michael Farrell (born 1965, A) *Katie Farris (born 1983, US) *Margaretta Faugères (1771–1801, US) *Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882–1961, US) *Brian Fawcett (1944–2022, C) *Elaine Feeney (living, Ir) *Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019, E) *Alison Fell (born 1944, S) *Charles Fenerty (c. 1821–1892, C) *Elijah Fenton (1683–1730, E) *James Fenton (Ulster Scots poet), James Fenton (1931–2021, NI) *James Fenton (born 1949, E) *Richard Fenton (1747–1821, W) *Gus Ferguson (1940–2020, SA) *Samuel Ferguson (1810–1886, Ir) *Robert Fergusson (1750–1774, S) *Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021, US) *Ferron (Deborah Foisy, born 1952, C) *George Fetherling (born 1949, C) *Michael Field (author), Michael Field (Katherine Bradley, 1846–1914, and Edith Cooper, 1862–1913, E) *Henry Fielding (1707–1754, E) *Connie Fife (1961–2017, C) *Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720, E) *Annie Finch (born 1956, US) *Peter Finch (poet), Peter Finch (living, W) *Robert Finch (poet), Robert Finch (1900–1995, C) *Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006, S) *Joan Finnigan (1925–2007, C) *Jon Paul Fiorentino (living, C) *Catherine Fisher (born 1957, W) *Roy Fisher (1930–2017, E) *Edward FitzGerald (poet), Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883, E) *Judith Fitzgerald (1952–2015, C) *R. D. Fitzgerald (1902–1987, A) *Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985, US) *Richard FitzPatrick (1748–1813, Ir/E) *Roderick Flanagan (1828–1862, A) *James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915, E) *Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811, S) *Giles Fletcher (c. 1586–1623, E) *Giles Fletcher, the Elder (c. 1548–1611, E) *John Fletcher (playwright), John Fletcher (1579–1625, E) *John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950, US) *Lisa Anne Fletcher (1844–1905, US) *Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650, E) *Robert Fletcher (writer), Robert Fletcher (fl. 1586, E) *Maria De Fleury (c. 1754 – c. 1794, E) *F. S. Flint (1885–1960, E) *Alice Flowerdew (1759–1830, E) *Lionel Fogarty (born 1958, A) *Jack Foley (poet), Jack Foley (born 1940, US) *Mary Hannay Foott (1846–1918, A) *John Forbes (poet), John Forbes (1950–1998, A) *Carolyn Forché (born 1950, US) *Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939, E) *John Ford (dramatist), John Ford (1586–1639, E) *John M. Ford (1957–2006, US) *Robert Ford (Canadian diplomat), Robert Ford (1915–1998, C) *Mabel Forrest (1872–1935, A) *William Forrest (poet), William Forrest (fl. 1581, E) *Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947–1975, S) *Gary Jeshel Forrester (born 1946, NZ) *William Forster (Australian politician), William Forster (1818–1882, A) *John Foulcher (born 1952, A) *Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (1860–1920, E) *William Fowler (makar), William Fowler (c. 1560–1612, S) *Kate Fox (writer), Kate Fox (born 1975, E) *Len Fox (1905–2004, A) *Janet Frame (1924–2004, NZ) *Ruth France (1913–1968, NZ) *Matthew Francis (poet), Matthew Francis (born 1956, E/W) *Robert Francis (poet), Robert Francis (1901–1987, US) *George Sutherland Fraser (1915–1980, S) *Gregory Fraser (living, US) *Raymond Fraser (1941–2018, C) *Benjamin Frater (1979–2007, A) *Brentley Frazer (born 1972, A) *Grace Beacham Freeman (1916–2002, US) *John Freeman (poet), John Freeman (1880–1929, E) *Nicholas Freeston (1907–1978, E) *Patrick Friesen (born 1946, C) *Anthony Freston (1757–1819, E) *Robert Frost (1874–1963, US) *Gwen Frostic (1906–2001, US) *Gene Frumkin (1928–2007, US) *Mark Frutkin (born 1948, US/C) *Sheila Meiring Fugard (born 1932, SA) *Ethel Romig Fuller (1883–1965, US) *John Fuller (poet), John Fuller (born 1937, E) *Roy Fuller (1912–1991, E) *Mary Eliza Fullerton (1868–1946, A) *Alice Fulton (born 1952, US) *Robin Fulton (born 1937, S) *Ulpian Fulwell (1545/1546 – before 1586, E) *Richard Furness (1791–1857, E)

G

Ga–Go

*Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808–1884, US) *Georgie Starbuck Galbraith (1909–1980, US) *Dunstan Gale (fl. 1596, E) *Kate Gale (living, US) *James Galvin (poet), James Galvin (born 1951, US) *Patrick Galvin (1927–2011, Ir) *Forrest Gander (born 1956, US) *Robert Garioch (1909–1981, S) *Hamlin Garland (1860–1940, US) *Raymond Garlick (1926–2011, W) *Richard Garnett (writer), Richard Garnett (1835–1906, E) *Jean Garrigue (1912–1972, US) *Samuel Garth (1661–1719, E) *George Gascoigne (1525–1577, E) *David Gascoyne (1916–2001, E/F) *Bill Gaston (born 1953, C) *John Gay (1685–1732, E) *Ross Gay (born 1974, US) *William Gay (poet), William Gay (1865–1897, S/A) *Alexander Geddes (1737–1802, S) *Leon Gellert (1892–1977, A) *W. R. P. George (1912–2006, W) *Dan Gerber (born 1940, US) *Amy Gerstler (born 1956, US) *Marty Gervais (living, C) *Charles Ghigna (born 1946, US) *Monk Gibbon (1896–1987, Ir) *Reginald Gibbons (born 1947, US) *Stella Gibbons (1902–1989, E) *Ivy Gibbs (c. 1886–1966, NZ) *Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931, L/US) *G. H. Gibson (Ironbark, 1846–1921, A) *Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962, E) *Elsa Gidlow (1898–1986, C) *Angus Morrison Gidney (writer), Angus Morrison Gidney (1803–1882, C) *Gerry Gilbert (1936–2009, C) *Jack Gilbert (1925–2012, US) *Kevin Gilbert (author), Kevin Gilbert (1933–1993, A) *W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911, E) *Ellen Gilchrist (born 1935, US) *George Gilfillan (1813–1878, S) *Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935, US) *Mary Gilmore (1865–1962, A) *Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997, US) *Dana Gioia (born 1950, US) *Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024, US) *Jesse Glass (born 1954, US/Jp) *John Glassco (1909–1981, C) *Madeline Gleason (1903–1979, US) *Duncan Glen (1933–2008, S) *William Glen (poet), William Glen (1789–1826, S) *Lorri Neilsen Glenn (living, C) *Denis Glover (1912–1980, NZ) *Louise Glück (born 1943, US) *Rumer Godden (1907–1998, In/E) *Patricia Goedicke (1931–2006, US) *Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957, Ir) *Albert Goldbarth (born 1948, US) *Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961, US) *Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774, Ir/E) *Oliver Goldsmith (Canadian poet), Oliver Goldsmith (1794–1861, C) *Peter Goldsworthy (born 1951, A) *Leona Gom (born 1946, C) *W. T. Goodge (1862–1909, A) *Lorna Goodison (born 1947, J) *Paul Goodman (1911–1972, US) *Barnabe Googe (1540–1594, E) *Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870, A) *Katherine L. Gordon (living, C) *Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580–1661, S) *Hedwig Gorski (born 1949, US) *Edmund Gosse (1849–1928, E) *Phyllis Gotlieb (1926–2009, C) *Keith Gottschalk (born 1946, SA) *Alan Gould (born 1949, A) *Nora Gould (living, C) *John Gower (c. 1330–1408, E) *Susan Goyette (born 1964, C)

Gr–Gy

*James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650, S) *Jorie Graham (born 1950, US) *Neile Graham (born 1958, C) *Robert Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore (1735–1797, S) *W. S. Graham (1918–1986, S) *James Grahame (1765–1811, S) *Mark Granier (born 1957, E/Ir) *Paul Grano (1894–1975, A) *Alex Grant (poet), Alex Grant (living, US) *Richard Graves (1715–1804, E) *Richard Harry Graves (1897–1971, A) *Robert Graves (1895–1985, E) *Alexander Gray (poet), Alexander Gray (1882–1968, S) *Catherine Gray, Lady Manners (1766–1852, Ir) *Kathryn Gray (born 1973, W) *Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett, 1846–1923, E) *Robert Gray (poet), Robert Gray (born 1945, A) *Stephen Gray (writer), Stephen Gray (born 1941, SA) *Thomas Gray (1716–1771, E) *Dorothy Auchterlonie Green (1915–1991, A) *H. M. Green (journalist), H. M. Green (1881–1962, A) *Paula Green (poet), Paula Green (born 1955, NZ) *Richard Greene (writer), Richard Greene (born 1961, C) *Robert Greene (16th century), Robert Greene (1558–1592, E) *Lavinia Greenlaw (born 1962, E) *Gavin Greenlees (1930–1983, A) *Leslie Greentree (living, C) *Dora Greenwell (1821–1882, E) *Jane Greer (poet), Jane Greer (born 1953, US) *Linda Gregg (1942–2019, US) *Horace Gregory (1898–1982, US) *Andrew Greig (born 1951, S) *Eamon Grennan (born 1941, Ir) *H. W. Gretton (1914–1983, NZ) *Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554–1628, E) *Gerald Griffin (1803–1840, Ir) *Sarah Maria Griffin (living, Ir) *Susan Griffin (born 1943, US) *Bill Griffiths (poet), Bill Griffiths (1948–2007, E) *Bryn Griffiths (writer), Bryn Griffiths (living, W/E) *Jane Griffiths (poet), Jane Griffiths (born 1970, E) *Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985, E) *Nicholas Grimald (1519–1562, E) *Angelina Weld Grimké (1880–1958, US) *Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837–1914, US) *Eliza Griswold (born 1973, US) *Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815–1857, US) *Philip Gross (born 1952, E) *Paul Groves (poet), Paul Groves (born 1947, E/W) *Bertha Jane Grundy (Mrs. Leith Adams, 1837–1912, E) *Jeff Guess (born 1948, A) *Barbara Guest (1920–2006, US) *Edgar Guest (1881–1959, US) *Paul Guest (living, US) *Malcolm Guite (born 1957, E) *Arthur Guiterman (1871–1943, US) *Genni Gunn (born 1949, C) *Thom Gunn (1929–2004, E/US) *Kristjana Gunnars (born 1948, C) *Lee Gurga (born 1949, US) *Ivor Gurney (1890–1937, E) *Ralph Gustafson (1909–1995, C) *Mafika Gwala (1946–2014, SA) *Cyril Gwynn (1897–1988, W/A) *Stephen Gwynn (1864–1950, Ir) *Beth Gylys (born 1964, US) *Brion Gysin (1916–1986, C/E)

H

Ha–He

*William Habington (1605–1654, E) *Marilyn Hacker (born 1942, US) *Kimiko Hahn (born 1955, US) *John Haines (1924–2011, US) *Paul Haines (poet), Paul Haines (1933–2003, US/C) *Helen Hajnoczky (born 1985, C) *Thomas Gordon Hake (1809–1895, E) *Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879, US) *Bernadette Hall (born 1945, NZ) *Donald Hall (1928–2018, US) *Megan Hall (poet), Megan Hall (born 1972, SA) *Phil Hall (poet), Phil Hall (born 1953, C) *Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943, E) *Rodney Hall (writer), Rodney Hall (born 1935, A) *Arthur Hallam (1811–1833, E) *Alan Halsey (born 1949, W/E) *Michael Hamburger (1924–2007, E) *Ian Hamilton (critic), Ian Hamilton (1938–2001, E) *Jane Eaton Hamilton (born 1954, C) *Janet Hamilton (1795–1873, S) *Philip Hammial (born 1937, A) *Robert Gavin Hampson (born 1948, E) *Susan Hampton (born 1949, A) *Sophie Hannah (born 1971, E) *Bilal Haq (born 1948, P) *Caroline Hardaker (born 1986, E) *Kerry Hardie (born 1951, NI) *Thomas Hardy (1840–1928, E) *Lesbia Harford (1891–1927, A) *Joy Harjo (born 1951, US) *William Harmon (born 1938, US) *Frances Harper (1825–1911, US) *Michael S. Harper (1938–2016 US) *Charles Harpur (1813–1868, A) *Alice Harriman (1861–1925, US) *Edward Harrington (poet), Edward Harrington (1895–1966, A) *Claire Harris (poet), Claire Harris (1937–2018, C) *Joseph Harris (Gomer), Joseph Harris (1773–1825, W) *Max Harris (poet), Max Harris (1921–1995, A) *Michael Harris (poet), Michael Harris (born 1944, C) *Robert Harris (poet), Robert Harris (1951–1993, A) *Wilson Harris (1921–2018, Gu/E) *Jennifer Harrison (born 1955, A) *Jim Harrison (1937–2016, US) *Martin Harrison (poet), Martin Harrison (1949–2014, A) *Richard Harrison (poet) (living, C) *Tony Harrison (born 1937, E) *Les Harrop (born 1948, E/A) *Kingsley O. Harrop-Williams (1947-2019, GU) *Molly Harrower (1906–1999, S) *J. S. Harry (1939–2015, A) *Carla Harryman (born 1952, US) *David Harsent (born 1942, E) *Kevin Hart (poet), Kevin Hart (born 1954, A) *Paul Hartal (born 1936, Is/C) *Anne Le Marquand Hartigan (living, Ir) *Jill Hartman (born 1974, C) *Sadakichi Hartmann (1867–1944, US) *Michael Hartnett (1941–1999, Ir) *Diana Hartog (born 1942, C) *William Hart-Smith (1911–1990, NZ) *F. W. Harvey (1888–1957, E) *Elisabeth Harvor (1936–2024, C) *Gwen Harwood (1920–1995, A) *Lee Harwood (1939–2015, E) *Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951, E) *J. H. Haslam (1874–1969, NZ) *Nicholas Hasluck (born 1942, A) *Robert Hass (born 1941, US) *Katherine Hastings (living, US) *Ann Hatton (1764–1838, W) *Stephen Hawes (died 1523, E) *Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875, E) *Kathleen Hawkins (1883–1981, NZ) *George Campbell Hay (1915–1984, S) *Gilbert Hay (poet), Gilbert Hay (born c. 1403, S) *Myfanwy Haycock (1913–1963, W/E) *Robert Hayden (1913–1980, US) *William Hayley (1745–1820, E) *Robert Hayman (1575–1629, Nf) *Tony Haynes (American musician), Tony Haynes (born 1960, US) *Joel Hayward (born 1964, NZ) *Eliza Haywood (c. 1693–1756, E) *H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886–1961, E) *Randolph Healy (born 1956, Ir) *Seamus Heaney (1939–2013, Ir) *Josephine D. Heard (1861 – c. 1921, US) *John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006, E) *Charles Heavysege (1816–1876, C) *James Hebblethwaite (1857–1921, A) *Anthony Hecht (1923–2004, US) *Jennifer Michael Hecht (born 1965, US) *John Hegley (born 1953, E) *Wilfrid Heighington (1897–1945, C) *Steven Heighton (1961–2022, C) *Anita Heiss (born 1968, A) *Lyn Hejinian (born 1941, US) *Jill Hellyer (1925–2012, A) *David Helwig (1938–2018, C) *Maggie Helwig (born 1961, C) *Felicia Hemans (1793–1835, E) *Kris Hemensley (born 1946, A) *Essex Hemphill (1957–1995, US) *Brian Henderson (poet), Brian Henderson (born 1948, C) *Hamish Henderson (1919–2002, S) *Philip Henderson (1906–1977, E) *Thomas William Heney (1862–1928, A) *John Henley (priest), John Henley (1692–1756, E) *William Ernest Henley (1849–1903, E) *Adrian Henri (1932–2000, E) *Paul Henry (poet), Paul Henry (born 1959, W) *Robert Henryson (fl. 1460–1500, S) *Thomas Nicoll Hepburn (wrote as Gabriel Setoun, 1861–1930, S) *Dorothea Herbert (c. 1767–1829, Ir) *Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1582–1648, E/W) *George Herbert (1593–1632, W) *Mary Sidney, Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (Mary Sidney, 1561–1621, E) *W. N. Herbert (born 1961, S) *Jason Heroux (born 1971, C) *Robert Herrick (poet), Robert Herrick (1591–1674, E) *Steven Herrick (born 1958, A) *Benjamin Hertwig (living, C) *Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1959, E) *Phoebe Hesketh (1909–2005, E) *Paul Hetherington (born 1958, A) *William Maxwell Hetherington (1803–1865, S) *Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002, A) *John Hewitt (poet), John Hewitt (1907–1987, NI) *Maurice Hewlett (1861–1923, E) *William Heyen (born 1940, US) *Thomas Heywood (c. 1570s – 1650, E)

Hi–Hu

*Bob Hicok (born 1960, US) *Dick Higgins (1938–1998, US) *F. R. Higgins (1896–1941, Ir) *Kevin Higgins (poet), Kevin Higgins (born 1967, Ir) *Rita Ann Higgins (born 1955, Ir) *Colleen Higgs (born 1962, SA) *Charles Higham (biographer), Charles Higham (1931–2012, A) *Scott Hightower (born 1952, US) *Conrad Hilberry (1928–2017, US) *Fiona Hile (living, A) *Barry Hill (Australian writer), Barry Hill (born 1943, A) *Edward Hill (painter), Edward Hill (1843–1923, US) *Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016, E/US) *Robert Hilles (born 1951, C) *Richard Hillman (poet), Richard Hillman (born 1964, A) *Ellen Hinsey (born 1960, US) *Jane Hirshfield (born 1953, US) *George Hitchcock (poet), George Hitchcock (1914–2010, US) *H. L. Hix (born 1960, US) *Thomas Hoccleve (c. 1368–1426, E) *Philip Hodgins (1959–1995, A) *Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962, E/US) *W. N. Hodgson (1893–1916, E) *Barbara Hofland (1770–1844, E) *Michael Hofmann (born 1957, G/US) *James Hogg (1770–1835, S) *David Holbrook (1923–2011, E) *Susan Holbrook (living, C) *Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809, E) *Clive Holden (living, C) *Margaret Holford (1778–1852, E) *Abraham Holland (died 1626, E) *Barbara Holland (1933–2010, US) *Hugh Holland (1569–1633, W) *Jane Holland (born 1966, E) *John Holland (poet), John Holland (1794–1872, E) *Norah M. Holland (1876–1925, C) *Sarah Holland-Batt (born 1982, A) *John Hollander (1929–2013, US) *Matthew Hollis (born 1971, E) *Anselm Hollo (1934–2013, US) *Nancy Holmes (born 1959, C) *Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894, US) *Thomas Hood (1798–1845, E) *Cornelia Hoogland (living, C) *Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812–1848, US) *Hilda Mary Hooke (1898–1978, C) *Harry Hooton (1908–1961, A) *A. D. Hope (1907–2000, A) *Christopher Hope (novelist), Christopher Hope (born 1944, SA) *Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889, E) *Leah Horlick (living, C) *Sean Horlor (born 1981, C) *Frances Horovitz (1938–1983, E) *Michael Horovitz (1935–2021, E) *Peter Horn (poet), Peter Horn (1934–2019, SA) *George Moses Horton (1797–1884, US) *Allan Kolski Horwitz (born 1952, SA) *Sylvester Houédard (1924–1992, Gy) *Karen Houle (living, C) *Joan Houlihan (living, US) *Alfred Edward Housman, A. E. Housman (1859–1936, E) *Edward Howard (novelist), Edward Howard (1793–1841, E) *Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547, E) *Liz Howard (writer), Liz Howard (living, C) *Richard Howard (1929–2022, US) *Robert Guy Howarth (1906–1974, A) *Fanny Howe (born 1940, US) *George Howe (printer), George Howe (1769–1821, A) *Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910, US) *Susan Howe (born 1937, US) *Ada Verdun Howell (1902–1981, A) *Anthony Howell (performance artist), Anthony Howell (born 1945, E) *Harry Howith (1934–2014, C) *Mary Howitt (1799–1888, E) *Richard Howitt (poet), Richard Howitt (1799–1869, E) *William Howitt (1792–1879, E) *Francis Hubert (died 1629, E) *Thomas Hudson (poet), Thomas Hudson (d. c. 1605, S) *Annie Campbell Huestis (1878–1960, C) *Frieda Hughes (born 1960, A) *Langston Hughes (1902–1967, US) *Richard Hughes (British writer), Richard Hughes (1900–1976, E/W) *Ted Hughes (1930–1998, E) *Richard Hugo (1923–1982, US) *Coral Hull (born 1965, A) *Lynda Hull (1954–1994, US) *T. E. Hulme (1883–1917, E) *Alexander Hume (c. 1560–1609, S) *Anna Hume (fl. 1644, S) *David Hume of Godscroft (1558–1629, S) *Barry Humphries (1934–2023, A/E) *Emyr Humphreys (1919–2020, W) *Helen Humphreys (born 1961, C) *James Henry Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt (1784–1859, E) *Sam Hunt (poet), Sam Hunt (born 1946, NZ) *Aislinn Hunter (living, C) *Al Hunter (writer), Al Hunter (living, C) *Bruce Hunter (poet), Bruce Hunter (born 1952, C) *Catherine Hunter (poet), Catherine Hunter (born 1957, C) *Rex Hunter (1889–1960, NZ) *Constance Hunting (1925–2006, US) *Cynthia Huntington (born 1952, US) *Chris Hutchinson (poet), Chris Hutchinson (born 1972, C) *Pearse Hutchinson (1927–2012, Ir) *William Hutton (historian), William Hutton (1723–1815, E) *Aldous Huxley (1894–1963, E) *Douglas Smith Huyghue (1816–1891, C/A) *Douglas Hyde (1860–1949, Ir) *Robin Hyde (pen name of Iris Wilkinson; 1906–1939, NZ) *Helen von Kolnitz Hyer (1896–1983, US) *Maureen Hynes (living, C)

I

*John Imlah (1799–1846, S) *Lawson Fusao Inada (born 1938, US) *Rex Ingamells (1913–1955, A) *Jean Ingelow (1820–1897, E) *P. Inman (born 1947, US) *Susan Ioannou (born 1944, C) *Valentin Iremonger (1918–1991, Ir) *Eric Irvin (1908–1993, A) *Frances Itani (born 1942, C) *Helen Ivory (born 1969, E)

J

*Alan Jackson (poet), Alan Jackson (born 1938, S) *Violet Jacob (1863–1946, S) *Josephine Jacobsen (1908–2003, US) *Ethel Jacobson (1899–1991, US) *Richard Jago (1715–1781, E) *James I of Scotland (1394–1437, S) *James VI and I (1566–1625, S/E) *Alan James (poet), Alan James (living, SA) *Clive James (1939–2019, A) *John James (British poet), John James (1939–2018, W/E) *Maria James (poet), Maria James (1793–1868, W/US) *Kathleen Jamie (born 1962, S) *Robert Alan Jamieson (born 1958, S) *Patricia Janus (1932–2006, US) *Derek Jarman (1942–1994, E) *Mark Jarman (born 1952, US) *Lisa Jarnot (born 1967, US) *Randall Jarrell (1914–1965, US) *Alan Jefferies (born 1957, A) *Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962, US) *Isadore G. Jeffery (1840–1919, US) *Rod Jellema (1927–1918, US) *Jemeni (singer), Jemeni (Joanne Gairy, born 1976, Gd/C) *Graham Jenkin (born 1938, A) *John Jenkins (poet), John Jenkins (born 1949, A) *Joseph Jenkins (diarist), Joseph Jenkins (1818–1898, W/A) *Mike Jenkins (poet), Mike Jenkins (born 1953, W) *Nigel Jenkins (1949–2014, W) *Elizabeth Jennings (poet), Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001, E) *Kate Jennings (1948–2021, A) *Wopko Jensma (1939–1993 or after, SA) *Sydney Jephcott (1864–1951, A) *Paulette Jiles (born 1943, US/C) *Liesl Jobson (living, SA) *Rita Joe (1932–2007, C) *Edmund John (1883–1917, E) *Godfrey John (living, W) *E. Pauline Johnson (1861–1913, C) *Fenton Johnson (born 1953, US) *Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966, US) *Helene Johnson (1906–1995, US) *James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938, US) *Linton Kwesi Johnson (born 1952, J) *Lionel Johnson (1867–1902, E) *Samuel Johnson (1709–1784, E) *Sarah Johnson (poet), Sarah Johnson (born 1980, SA) *George Benson Johnston (1913–2004, C) *Martin Johnston (1947–1990, A) *Amanda Jones (inventor), Amanda Jones (1835–1914, US) *D. G. Jones (1929–2016, C) *David Jones (artist-poet), David Jones (1895–1974, E) *Ebenezer Jones (1820–1860, E) *El Jones (living, C) *Emma Jones (poet), Emma Jones (born 1977, A) *Evan Jones (Australian poet), Evan Jones (1931–2022, A) *Glyn Jones (Welsh writer), Glyn Jones (1905–1995, W) *Jack Jones (Welsh musician), Jack Jones (born 1992, W) *Jill Jones (poet), Jill Jones (born 1951, A) *John Joseph Jones (writer), John Joseph Jones (1930–2000, A) *Patrick Jones (poet), Patrick Jones (born 1965, W) *Rae Desmond Jones (1941–2017, A) *Richard Jones (poet), Richard Jones (living, US) *Terry Jones (1942–2020, W/E) *Erica Jong (born 1942, US) *Ben Jonson (1573–1637, E) *Julie Joosten (born 1980, US/C) *John Jordan (poet), John Jordan (1930–1988, Ir) *June Jordan (1936–2002, J/US) *Anthony Joseph (born 1966, T/E) *Eve Joseph (born 1953, C) *Jenny Joseph (1932–2018, E) *Danilo Jovanovitch (1919–2015, A) *James Joyce (1882–1941, Ir/I) *Trevor Joyce (born 1947, Ir) *Frank Judge (living, US) *Michael J. Astrue, A. M. Juster (born 1956, US) *Donald Justice (1925–2004, US)

K

*Jim Kacian (born 1953, US) *Aryan Kaganof (born 1964, SA) *Chester Kallman (1921–1975, US) *Surjeet Kalsey (living, C) *Smaro Kamboureli (living, C) *Ilya Kaminsky (born 1977, US) *Julie Kane (born 1952, US) *Adeena Karasick (born 1965, C/US) *Mary Karr (born 1955, US) *Julia Kasdorf (born 1962, US) *Laura Kasischke (born 1961, US) *Bob Kaufman (1925–1986, US) *Shirley Kaufman (1923–2016, US) *Rupi Kaur (born 1992, C) *Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967, Ir) *Jackie Kay (born 1961, S) *Jayne Fenton Keane (living, A) *Lionel Kearns (born 1937, C) *Annie Keary (1825–1879, E) *Diane Keating (living, C) *John Keats (1795–1821, E) *John Keble (1792–1866, E) *Janice Kulyk Keefer (born 1952, C) *Weldon Kees (1914–1955, US) *Nancy Keesing (1923–1993, A) *Antigone Kefala (1935–2022, A) *Christopher Kelen (born 1958, A) *S. K. Kelen (born 1956, A) *Anne Kellas (born 1951, SA/A) *Isabella Kelly (1759–1857, S/E) *M. T. Kelly (born 1946, C) *Arthur Kelton (died c. 1550, E/W) *Penn Kemp (born 1944, C) *Henry Kendall (poet), Henry Kendall (1839–1882, A) *Francis Kenna (1865–1932, A) *Cate Kennedy (born 1963, A) *Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy ("Woodbine Willy", 1883–1929, E) *Leo Kennedy (1907–2000, C) *Miranda Kennedy (born 1975, US) *Walter Kennedy (poet), Walter Kennedy (c. 1455 – c. 1508, S) *X. J. Kennedy (born 1929, US) *Jean Kent (poet), Jean Kent (born 1951, A) *Jane Kenyon (1947–1995, US) *Robert Kirkland Kernighan (1854–1926, C) *Jack Kerouac (1922–1969, US) *Sidney Keyes (1922–1943, E) *Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938–2018, SA/US) *Mimi Khalvati (born 1944, E) *Charles Kickham (1828–1882, Ir) *Anne Killigrew (1660–1685, E) *Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918, US) *Arthur Henry King (1910–2000, E/US) *Henry King (poet), Henry King (1592–1669, E) *William King (poet), William King (1663–1712, E) *Charles Kingsley (1819–1875, E) *Barbara Kingsolver (born 1955, US) *Galway Kinnell (1927–2014, US) *John Kinsella (poet), John Kinsella (born 1963, A) *Thomas Kinsella (1928–2021, Ir) *Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936, E) *Olga Kirsch (1924–1997, SA/Is) *Roy Kiyooka (1926–1994, C) *Carolyn Kizer (1925–1914, US) *Barbara Klar (born 1966, C) *Sarah Klassen (born 1932, C) *A. M. Klein (1909–1972, C) *August Kleinzahler (born 1949, US) *Etheridge Knight (1931–1991, US) *Stephen Knight (poet), Stephen Knight (born 1960, W/E) *Raymond Knister (1899–1932, C) *Kenneth Koch (1925–2002, US) *Ruth Ellen Kocher (born 1965, US) *Joy Kogawa (born 1935, C) *Komninos Zervos, komninos (born 1950, A) *Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1947, US) *Ted Kooser (born 1939, US) *Shane Koyczan (born 1976, C) *Rustum Kozain (born 1966, SA) *Rudi Krausmann (1933–2019, A) *Ruth Krauss (1901–1993, US) *Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1946, US) *Uys Krige (1910–1987, SA) *Robert Kroetsch (1927–2011, C) *Antjie Krog (born 1952, SA) *Anton Robert Krueger (born 1971, SA) *Marilyn Krysl (born 1942, US) *Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954, Ir) *Abhay Kumar (born 1980, In) *Mazisi Kunene (1930–2006, SA) *Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010, US) *Maxine Kumin (1925–2014, US) *Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006, US) *Frank Kuppner (born 1951, S) *Stephen Kuusisto (born 1955, US) *Morris Kyffin (c. 1555–1598, W/E) *Joanne Kyger (1934–2017, US) *Francis Kynaston (1587–1642, E)

L

La–Ln

*John La Rose (1927–2006, J/E) *Sonnet L'Abbé (born 1973, C) *Edward A. Lacey (1938–1995, C) *Mike Ladd (poet), Mike Ladd (born 1959, A) *Ben Ladouceur (born 1987, C) *Nick Laird (born 1975, NI) *David Lake (writer), David Lake (1929–2016, A) *Philip Lamantia (1927–2005, US) *Kendrick Lamar (born 1987, US) *Charles Lamb (1775–1834, E) *Archibald Lampman (1861–1899, C) *Tim Lander (1938–2023, C) *Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838, E) *Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864, E) *M. Travis Lane (born 1934, US/C) *Patrick Lane (poet), Patrick Lane (1939–2019, C) *Andrew Lang (1844–1912, S) *D.L. Lang, D. L. Lang (born 1983, US) *William Langland (c. 1332 – c. 1386, E) *Eve Langley (1904–1974, A) *Emilia Lanier (1569–1645, E) *Sidney Lanier (1842–1881, US) *Lucy Larcom (1824–1893, US) *Rebecca Hammond Lard (1772–1855, US) *Bruce Larkin (born 1957, US) *Philip Larkin (1922–1985, E) *Richard Latewar (1560–1601, E) *Evelyn Lau (born 1971, C) *James Laughlin (1914–1997, US) *Ann Lauterbach (born 1942, US) *Dorianne Laux (born 1952, US) *Emily Lawless (1845–1913, Ir) *Anthony Lawrence (poet), Anthony Lawrence (born 1957, A) *D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930, E) *Henry Lawson (1867–1922, A) *Louisa Lawson (1848–1920, A) *Robert Lax (1915–2000, US) *Layamon (late 12th – early 13th c., E) *Irving Layton (1912–2006, C) *Emma Lazarus (1849–1887, US) *Augustus Asplet Le Gros (1840–1877, Je) *Bronwyn Lea (living, A) *Mary Leapor (1722–1746, E) *Edward Lear (1812–1888, E) *Lesley Lebkowicz (born 1946, A) *Francis Ledwidge (1887–1917, Ir) *David Lee (poet), David Lee (born 1944, US) *Dennis Lee (author), Dennis Lee (born 1939, C) *John B. Lee (born 1951, C) *Muna Lee (writer), Muna Lee (1895–1965, US) *Lily Alice Lefevre (1854–1938, C) *Anne Brydges Lefroy (1747/8–1804, E) *Joy Leftow (born 1949, US) *Sylvia Legris (born 1960, C) *Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018, US) *David Lehman (born 1948, US) *Geoffrey Lehmann (born 1940, A) *Brad Leithauser (born 1953, US) *Mark Lemon (1809–1870, E) *Sue Lenier (born 1957, E) *Charlotte Lennox (c. 1730–1804, S/E) *John Lent (living, C) *John Leonard (poet), John Leonard (born 1965, A) *Tom Leonard (poet), Tom Leonard (1944–2018, S) *William Ellery Leonard (1876–1944, US) *Douglas LePan (1914–1998, C) *Ben Lerner (born 1979, US) *Alex Leslie (living, C) *Rika Lesser (born 1953, US) *Lilian Leveridge (1879–1953, C) *Denise Levertov (1923–1997, E/US) *Dana Levin (poet), Dana Levin (born 1965, US) *Philip Levine (poet), Philip Levine (1928–2015, US) *Larry Levis (1946–1996, US) *D. A. Levy (1942–1968, US) *William Levy (author), William Levy (1939–2019, US/Nt) *Emma Lew (born 1962, A) *Oswald LeWinter (1931–2013, US) *Alun Lewis (poet), Alun Lewis (1915–1944, W) *C. S. Lewis (1898–1963, Ir/E) *Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959, W) *J. Patrick Lewis (born 1942, US) *Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957, E) *Anne Ley (c. 1599–1641, E) *Tim Liardet (born 1959, E) *Isabella Lickbarrow (1784–1847, E) *James Liddy (1934–2008, Ir) *Tim Lilburn (born 1950, C) *Charles Lillard (1944–1997, C) *Kate Lilley (born 1960, A) *Tao Lin (born 1983, US) *Ada Limón (born 1976, US) *Jack Lindeman (living, US) *Eddie Linden (1935–2023, S/E) *Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001, US) *Jack Lindsay (writer), Jack Lindsay (1900–1990, A/E) *Maurice Lindsay (broadcaster), Maurice Lindsay (1918–2009, S) *Sarah Lindsay (born 1958, US) *Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931, US) *Jessie Litchfield (1883–1956, A) *Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996, C) *Billie Livingston (living, C) *Douglas Livingstone (poet), Douglas Livingstone (1932–1996, SA)

Lo–Ly

*Douglas Lochhead (1922–2011, C) *Liz Lochhead (born 1947, S) *Terry Locke (born 1946, NZ) *Thomas Lodge (1556–1625, E) *John Logan (minister), John Logan (1748–1788, S/E) *Christopher Logue (1926–2011, E) *James Longenbach (living, US) *Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882, US) *Michael Longley (1939–2025, NI) *John Longmuir (poet), John Longmuir (1803–1883, S) *Audre Lorde (1934–1992, US) *LindaAnn Loschiavo (living, US) *Marguerite St. Leon Loud (1812–1889, US) *Mary Stanley Low (1912–2007, Cu F US) *Jennifer LoveGrove (living, C) *Richard Lovelace (poet), Richard Lovelace (1618–1658, E) *Henry Lovelich (fl. mid-15th c., E) *Samuel Lover (1797–1868, Ir/E) *Amy Lowell (1874–1925, US) *James Russell Lowell (1819–1891, US) *Maria White Lowell (1821–1853, US) *Robert Lowell (1917–1977, US) *Pat Lowther (1935–1975, C) *Mina Loy (1882–1966, E/US) *Edward Lucie-Smith (born 1933, E) *Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870, US) *Tatjana Lukić (1959–2008, A) *Suzanne Lummis (living, US) *Laura Lush (born 1959, C) *Richard Lush (writer), Richard Lush (born 1934, C) *Thomas Lux (1946–2017, US) *John Lydgate (1370–1450, E) *John Lyly (1553–1606, E) *Michael Lynch (professor), Michael Lynch (1944–1991, US/C) *David Lyndsay (c. 1490 – c. 1555, S) *P. H. B. Lyon (1893–1986, E) *Henry Francis Lyte (1793–1847, S) *George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, George Lyttelton Lord Lyttelton (1709–1773, E)

M

Ma–Mi

*Rozena Maart (born 1962, SA/C) *Lindiwe Mabuza (1938–2021, US/SA) *Frederick Macartney (1887–1980, A) *Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859, E) *George MacBeth (1932–1992, S) *Norman MacCaig (1910–1996, S) *Denis Florence MacCarthy (1817–1882, Ir) *Karen Mac Cormack (born 1956, C/US) *Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978, S) *Donagh MacDonagh (1912–1968, Ir) *Thomas MacDonagh (1878–1916, Ir) *Allan MacDonald (poet), Allan MacDonald (1859–1905, S) *Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922, C) *George Macdonald (1824–1905, S) *Hugh MacDonald (poet), Hugh MacDonald (born 1945, C) *Wilson MacDonald (1880–1967, C) *Patrick MacDonogh (1902–1961, Ir) *Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987, C) *Seán Mac Falls (1957–2023, Ir) *Walter Scott MacFarlane (1896–1979, C) *Patrick MacGill (1889–1963, Ir) *Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (1899–1970, S) *Ronald Campbell Macfie (1867–1931, S) *James Pittendrigh Macgillivray (1856–1938, S) *Thomas MacGreevy (1893–1967, Ir) *Arthur Machen (1863–1947, W/E) *Tom MacInnes (1867–1951, C) *Louise Mack (1870–1935, A) *John William Mackail (1859–1945, S) *John Macken (c. 1784–1823, Ir) *Lachlan Mackinnon (born 1956, S) *Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972, S) *Kenneth Mackenzie (author), Kenneth Mackenzie (Seaforth Mackenzie, 1913–1955, A) *Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982, US) *Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968, A) *Don Maclennan (1929–2009, SA) *Joseph Macleod (1903–1984, E) *Nathaniel Mackey (born 1947, US) *Don Maclennan (1929–2009, SA) *Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004, US) *Louis MacNeice (1907–1963, Ir/E) *Kevin MacNeil (living, S) *Hector Macneill (1746–1818, S) *Lachlan Mackinnon (born 1956, S) *Alasdair Maclean (1926–1994, S) *Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982, US) *Andrea MacPherson (living, C) *James Macpherson (1736–1796, S) *Jay Macpherson (1931–2012, C) *Barry MacSweeney (1948–2000, E) *Haki R. Madhubuti (born 1942, US) *John Gillespie Magee Jr. (1922–1941, C) *Wes Magee (1939–2021, S) *Jayanta Mahapatra (1928–2023, In) *Sitakant Mahapatra (born 1937, In) *Mzi Mahola (born 1949, SA) *Derek Mahon (born 1941, NI) *Jennifer Maiden (born 1949, A) *Keith Maillard (born 1942, US/C) *Charles Mair (1838–1827, C) *Alice Major (born 1949, C) *Clarence Major (born 1936, US) *Robert Majzels (born 1950, C) *Taylor Mali (born 1965, US) *David Mallet (writer), David Mallet (c. 1705–1765, S) *Thomas Malory (c. 1415–1471, E) *David Malouf (born 1934, A) *Kim Maltman (born 1951, C) *Eli Mandel (1922–1992, C) *Tom Mandel (poet), Tom Mandel (born 1942, US) *Ahdri Zhina Mandiela (born 1953, J/C) *James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849, Ir) *Bill Manhire (born 1946, NZ) *David Manicom (born 1960, C) *John Manifold (1915–1985, A) *Leonard Mann (writer), Leonard Mann (1895–1981, A) *Emily Manning (1845–1890, A) *Frederic Manning (1882–1935, A) *Maurice Manning (poet), Maurice Manning (born 1966, US) *Ruth Manning-Sanders (1886–1988, W) *Robert Mannyng (1269–1340, E) *Chris Mansell (born 1953, A) *Peter Manson (born 1969, S) *Lee Maracle (1950–2021, C) *Blaine Marchand (born 1949, C) *Morton Marcus (poet), Morton Marcus (1936–2009, US) *Paul Mariani (born 1940, US) *E. A. Markham (1939–2008, Mo/E) *Edwin Markham (1852–1940, US) *Nicole Markotic (born 1962, C) *Daphne Marlatt (born 1942, C) *Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593, E) *Don Marquis (1878–1937, US) *Edward Garrard Marsh (1783–1862, E) *Tom Marshall (poet), Tom Marshall (1938–1993, C) *John Marston (playwright), John Marston (1576–1634, E) *Garth Martens (living, C) *Camille Martin (born 1956, C) *David Martin (poet), David Martin (1915–1997, E/A) *Philip Martin (poet), Philip Martin (1931–2005, A) *Theodore Martin (1816–1909, S) *Sid Marty (born 1944, C) *Andrew Marvell (1621–1678, E) *John Masefield (1878–1967, E) *Lebogang Mashile (born 1979, SA) *R. A. K. Mason (1905–1971, NZ) *Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950, US) *John Mateer (poet), John Mateer (born 1971, A) *Ray Mathew (1929–2002, A) *Robin Mathews (poet), Robin Mathews (1931–2023, C) *Roland Mathias (1915–2007, W) *Cleopatra Mathis (born 1947, US) *Don Mattera (1935–2022, SA) *James Matthews (writer), James Matthews (1929–2024, SA) *Glyn Maxwell (born 1962, E) *Bernadette Mayer (born 1945, US) *Micheline Maylor (born 1970, C) *Seymour Mayne (born 1944, C) *Chandra Mayor (born 1973, C) *Ben Mazer (born 1964, US) *Mzwakhe Mbuli (born 1959, SA) *James McAuley (1917–1976, A) *Robert McBride (poet), Robert McBride (c. 1811/1812–1895, C) *Neil McBride (poet), Neil McBride (1861–1942, Ir) *Ian McBryde (born 1953, A) *Brian McCabe (author), Brian McCabe (born 1951, S) *Steven McCabe (living, C) *Steve McCaffery (born 1947, C) *Julia McCarthy (living, C) *Susan McCaslin (born 1947, C) *J. D. McClatchy (1945–2018, US) *Kim McClenaghan (born 1974, SA/E) *Michael McClure (1932–2020, US) *Kathleen McConnell (Kathy Mac, living, C) *David McCooey (born 1967, A) *George Gordon McCrae (1833–1927, A) *John McCrae (1872–1918, C) *Shane McCrae (born 1975, US) *Kathleen McCracken (born 1960, C) *John McCrae (1872–1918, C) *Ronald McCuaig (1908–1993, A) *Matthew McDiarmid (1914–1996, S) *Nan McDonald (1921–1974, A) *Roger McDonald (born 1941, A) *Roy McDonald (poet), Roy McDonald (1937–2018, C) *Walt McDonald (1934–2022, US) *David McFadden (poet), David McFadden (1940–2018, C) *Hugh McFadden (poet), Hugh McFadden (living, Ir) *David McGimpsey (living, C) *Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978, US) *Elvis McGonagall (born 1960, S) *William McGonagall (1825–1902, S) *Roger McGough (born 1937, E) *Michelle McGrane (born 1974, Z/SA) *Campbell McGrath (born 1962, US) *Thomas McGrath (poet), Thomas McGrath (1916–1990, US) *Wendy McGrath (living, C) *Medbh McGuckian (born 1950, NI) *Heather McHugh (born 1948, US) *William McIlvanney (1936–2015, S) *Nadine McInnis (born 1957, C) *James McIntyre (poet), James McIntyre (1828–1906, S/C) *Claude McKay (1889–1948, J/US) *Don McKay (poet), Don McKay (born 1942, C) *Barry McKinnon (born 1944, C) *Rod McKuen (1933–2015, US) *Greg McLaren (born 1967, A) *Isaac McLellan (1806–1899, US) *John McLellan (songwriter), John McLellan (early 19th century, E) *Brendan McLeod (born 1979, C) *Nigel McLoughlin (born 1968, NI) *Emily Julian McManus (1865–1918, C) *Rhyll McMaster (born 1947, A) *Susan McMaster (born 1950, C) *James L. McMichael (born 1939, US) *Ian McMillan (poet), Ian McMillan (born 1956, E) *Eugene McNamara (1930–2016, US/C) *Anthony McNeill (1941–1996, J) *Andrew McNeillie (born 1946, W/E) *Hollie McNish (born 1984, E) *Bernard McNulty (1842–1892, US) *Steve McOrmond (living, C) *Dionyse McTair (born 1950, T) *Máighréad Medbh (born 1959, Ir] *Thomas Medwin (1788–1869, E) *Paula Meehan (born 1955, Ir) *Peter Meinke (born 1932, US) *Mary Melfi (born 1951, C) *Elizabeth Melville (c. 1578 – c. 1640, S) *Herman Melville (1819–1891, US) *Christopher Meredith (born 1955, W) *George Meredith (1828–1909, E) *Louisa Anne Meredith (1812–1895, E/A) *James Merrill (1926–1995, US) *Stuart Merrill (1863–1915, US) *Iman Mersal (born 1966, C) *Thomas Merton (1915–1968, US) *W. S. Merwin (1927–2019, US) *Sarah Messer (born 1966, US) *Joan Metelerkamp (born 1956, SA) *Charlotte Mew (1869–1928, E) *Bruce Meyer (born 1957, C) *Alice Meynell (1847–1922, E) *Viola Meynell (1885–1956, E) *James Lionel Michael (1824–1868, E/A) *Anne Michaels (born 1958, C) *William Julius Mickle (1734–1788, S) *Marianne Micros (born 1943, C) *Christopher Middleton (d. 1628), Christopher Middleton (c. 1560–1628, E) *Christopher Middleton (poet), Christopher Middleton (1926–2015, E) *Richard Barham Middleton (1882–1911, E) *Thomas Middleton (1580–1627, E) *Roy Miki (born 1942, C) *Dorothy Miles (1931–1993, W/US) *Josephine Miles (1911–1985, US) *Jennifer Militello (living, US) *Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950, US) *Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942, US) *Jane Miller (born 1949, US) *Joaquin Miller (1837–1913, US) *Leslie Adrienne Miller (born 1956, US) *Ruth Miller (poet), Ruth Miller (1919–1969, SA) *Thomas Miller (poet), Thomas Miller (1807–1874, E) *Vassar Miller (1924–1998, US) *John Millett (poet), John Millett (1921–2019, A) *Robert Millhouse (1788–1839, E) *Alice Milligan (1865–1953, Ir/NI) *Spike Milligan (1918–2002, E/Ir) *Kenneth G. Mills (1923–2004, C) *Roswell George Mills (1896–1966, C) *John Milton (1608–1674, E) *Robert Minhinnick (born 1952, W) *Matthew Minicucci (born 1981, US) *Gary Miranda (born 1939, US) *Sudesh Mishra (born 1962, A) *Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008, E) *Paul Mitchell (writer), Paul Mitchell (born 1968, A) *Silas Weir Mitchell (physician), Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914, US) *Stephen Mitchell (translator), Stephen Mitchell (born 1943, US) *Waddie Mitchell (born 1950, US) *Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999, S) *Amitabh Mitra (living, SA) *Ange Mlinko (born 1960, US)

Mo–Mu

*David Macbeth Moir (1798–1851, S) *Anis Mojgani (born 1977, US) *John Mole (poet), John Mole (born 1941, E) *Natalia Molebatsi (living, SA) *Dorothy Molloy (1942–2004, Ir) *Geraldine Monk (born 1952, E) *Harold Monro (1879–1932, E) *Harriet Monroe (1860–1936, US) *Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715, E) *John Montague (poet), John Montague (1929–2016, Ir) *Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762, E) *Alexander Montgomerie (c. 1550–1598, S) *James Montgomery (poet), James Montgomery (1771–1854, E) *Lucy Maud Montgomery (L. M. Montgomery, 1874–1942, C) *Marion E. Moodie (1867–1958, C) *Susanna Moodie (1803–1885, E/C) *Kobus Moolman (living, SA) *Jacob McArthur Mooney (born 1983, C) *Alan Moore (poet), Alan Moore (born 1960, Ir) *Marianne Moore (1887–1972, US) *Merrill Moore (1903–1957, US) *Ruth Moore (1903–1989, US) *T. Inglis Moore (1901–1978, A) *Thomas Moore (1779–1852, Ir/E) *Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944, E) *Dom Moraes (1938–2004, In) *Barbara Moraff (born 1939, US) *Cherríe Moraga (born 1952, US) *Edythe Morahan de Lauzon (fl. early 20th c., C) *Pamela Mordecai (born 1942, J/C) *Hannah More (1745–1833, E) *Dwayne Morgan (born 1974, C) *Edwin Morgan (poet), Edwin Morgan (1920–2010, S) *J. O. Morgan (born 1978, S) *Jeffrey Morgan (writer), Jeffrey Morgan (living, C) *Mal Morgan (1936–1999, A) *Robin Morgan (born 1941, US) *Lorin Morgan-Richards (born 1975, US) *A. F. Moritz (born 1947, US/C) *Eliza F. Morris (1821–1874, E) *Mervyn Morris (born 1937, J) *Sharon Morris (living, W/E) *William Morris (1834–1896, E) *David R. Morrison (author), David R. Morrison (1941–2012, S) *Jim Morrison (1943–1971, US) *Morrissey (born 1959, E) *Kim Morrissey (Janice Dales, living, C) *Garry Thomas Morse (living, C) *Viggo Mortensen (born 1958, US/De) *Colin Morton (born 1948, C) *Frank Morton (journalist), Frank Morton (1869–1923, A) *Twm Morys (born 1961, W) *Daniel David Moses (born 1952, C) *Howard Moss (1922–1987, US) *Thylias Moss (born 1954, US) *Isabella Motadinyane (1963–2003, SA) *William Motherwell (1797–1835, S) *Andrew Motion (born 1952, E) *Seitlhamo Motsapi (born 1966, SA) *Casey Motsisi (1932–1977, SA) *Eric Mottram (1924–1995, E) *Erín Moure (born 1955, C) *Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali (born 1940, SA) *Ian Mudie (1911–1976, A) *Mudrooroo (Colin Thomas Johnson, 1938–2019, A) *Lisel Mueller (1924–2020, US) *Micere Githae Mugo (1942–2023, K/Z) *Edwin Muir (1887–1959, S/E) *Paul Muldoon (born 1951, Ir/US) *Wendy Mulford (born 1941, W/E) *Harryette Mullen (born 1953, US) *Laura Mullen (born 1958, US) *Anthony Munday (c. 1560–1633, E) *Jane Munro (born 1943, C) *Sachiko Murakami (born 1980, C) *William Murdoch (poet), William Murdoch (1823–1887, S/C) *Edwin Greenslade Murphy (Dryblower, 1866–1939, A) *Hayden Murphy (born 1945, Ir) *Richard Murphy (poet), Richard Murphy (1927–2018, Ir/SLk) *Sheila Murphy (born 1951, US) *Charles Murray (poet), Charles Murray (1864–1941, S) *George Murray (poet), George Murray (born 1971, C) *Joan Murray (born 1945, US) *Les Murray (poet), Les Murray (1938–2019, A) *David Musgrave (born 1965, A) *Susan Musgrave (born 1951, C) *Togara Muzanenhamo (born 1975, Z)

N

*Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977, RE/US) *Constance Naden (1858–1889, E) *Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949, In) *Carolina Nairne (1766–1845, S) *Sydney Elliott Napier (1870–1940, A) *Akhtar Naraghi (living, C) *Ogden Nash (1902–1971, US) *Roger Nash (born 1942, E/C) *Thomas Nashe (1567–1601, E) *John Neal (1793–1876, US) *Charles Neaves (1800–1876, S) *Henry Neele (1798–1828, E) *Lyle Neff (born 1969, C) *John Neihardt (1881–1973, US) *William Neill (poet), William Neill (1922–2010, S) *Philip Neilsen (living, A) *Shaw Neilson (1872–1942, A) *Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935, US) *Holly Nelson (living, US/C) *Marilyn Nelson (born 1946, US) *Howard Nemerov (1920–1991, US) *Kenn Nesbitt (born 1962, US) *W. H. New (born 1938, C) *Henry Newbolt (1862–1938, E) *John Newlove (poet), John Newlove (1938–2003, C) *John Henry Newman (1801–1890, E) *Kate Newmann (born 1965, NI/Ir) *William Newton (poet), William Newton (1750–1830, E) *Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974, US) *Nuala Ní Chonchúir (born 1970, Ir) *Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (born 1942, Ir) *Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (born 1952, Ir) *Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh (born 1984, Ir) *Doireann Ní Ghríofa (born 1981, Ir) *The Owl and the Nightingale, Nicholas of Guildford (12th or 13th c., E) *Barrie Phillip Nichol (bpNichol, 1944–1988, C) *Grace Nichols (born 1950, Gu/E) *Robert Nichols (poet), Robert Nichols (1893–1944, E) *Cecily Nicholson (living, C) *Norman Nicholson (1914–1987, E) *Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970, US) *Emilia Nielsen (living, C) *Hume Nisbet (1849–1923, A/S) *Christopher Nolan (author), Christopher Nolan (1965–2009, Ir) *Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993, A) *Leslie Norris (1921–2006, W/US) *Harry Northup (born 1940, US) *Arthur Nortje (1942–1970, SA) *Caroline Norton (1808–1877, E) *Alice Notley (born 1945, US) *Alden Nowlan (1933–1983, C) *Alfred Noyes (1880–1958, E) *Jeff Nuttall (1933–2004, E) *Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952, US) *Robert Nye (1939–2016, E)

O

*Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938, US) *John O'Brien (poet), John O'Brien (Patrick Joseph Hartigan, 1878–1952, A) *Sean O'Brien (writer), Sean O'Brien (born 1952, E) *Patrick O'Connell (poet), Patrick O'Connell (1944–2005, C) *Mark O'Connor (poet), Mark O'Connor (born 1945, A) *Philip O'Connor (1916–1998, E) *Mary O'Donnell (born 1954, Ir) *Bernard O'Donoghue (born 1945, Ir) *Gregory O'Donoghue (1951–2005, Ir) *Bernard O'Dowd (1866–1953, A) *Dennis O'Driscoll (born 1954, Ir) *Ernest O'Ferrall (1881–1925, A) *Ron Offen (1930–2010, US) *William Henry Ogilvie (1869–1963, S) *Frank O'Hara (1926–1966, US) *John Bernard O'Hara (1862–1927, A) *Theodore O'Hara (1820–1867, US) *Pixie O'Harris (1903–1991, A) *Sharon Olds (born 1942, US) *Alexandra Oliver (living, C) *Mary Oliver (1935–2019, US) *Redell Olsen (born 1971, E) *Charles Olson (1910–1970, US) *Sheree-Lee Olson (born 1954, C) *Nessa O'Mahony (living, Ir) *Michael Ondaatje (born 1943, SLk/C) *Heather O'Neill (born 1973, C) *Henrietta O'Neill (1758–1793, Ir) *Mary Devenport O'Neill (1879–1976, Ir) *George Oppen (1908–1984, US) *Mary Oppen (1908–1990, US) *Antoine Ó Raifteiri (1784–1835, Ir) *Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II (1858–1923, US) *Dowell O'Reilly (1865–1923, A) *Peter Orlovsky (1933–2010, US) *John Ormond (1923–1990, W) *Frank Ormsby (born 1947, NI) *Gregory Orr (poet), Gregory Orr (born 1947, US) *Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844–1881, E) *Micheal O'Siadhail (born 1947, Ir) *Alicia Ostriker (born 1937, US) *Maggie O'Sullivan (born 1951, E) *Seumas O'Sullivan (1879–1958, Ir) *Niyi Osundare (born 1947, Ni/US) *Alice Oswald (born 1966, E) *John Oswald (activist), John Oswald (died 1793, S) *Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (1919–1982, Ir) *Richard Outram (1930–2005, C) *Ouyang Yu (歐陽昱; born 1955, A) *Catherine Owen (writer), Catherine Owen (living, C) *Jan Owen (poet), Jan Owen (born 1940, A) *Wilfred Owen (1893–1918, E)

P

*Susan Paddon (living, C) *Ruth Padel (born 1947, E) *Ron Padgett (born 1942, US) *Isabel Pagan (c. 1740–1821, S) *Geoff Page (born 1940, A) *P. K. Page (1916–2010, C) *Janet Paisley (1948–2018, S) *Grace Paley (1922–2007, E) *Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897, E) *Michael Palmer (poet), Michael Palmer (born 1943, US) *Nettie Palmer (1885–1964, A) *Vance Palmer (1885–1959, A) *Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960, E) *William Williams Pantycelyn (W) *Aristides Paradissis (1923–2006, A) *Arleen Paré (born 1946, C) *Dorothy Parker (1893–1967, US) *Amy Parkinson (1855–1938, C) *Thomas Parnell (poet), Thomas Parnell (1670–1718, Ir/E) *Robert Parry (poet), Robert Parry (1540–1612, W) *Lisa Pasold (living, C) *John Pass (poet), John Pass (born 1947, C) *Linda Pastan (1932–2023, US) *Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972, US) *Banjo Paterson (1864–1941, A) *Don Paterson (born 1963, S) *Coventry Patmore (1823–1896, E) *Brian Patten (born 1946, E) *Ian Patterson (poet), Ian Patterson (born 1948, E) *Philip Kevin Paul (living, C) *Tom Paulin (born 1949, NI/E) *Ricardo Pau-Llosa (born 1954, Cu) *James Payn (1830–1898, E/S) *Molly Peacock (born 1947, US/C) *Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866, E) *Patrick Pearse (1879–1916, Ir) *Soraya Peerbaye (living, C) *Pearl Poet (14th c., E) *Patrick Pearse (1879–1916, Ir) *James Larkin Pearson (1879–1981, US) *Neil Peart (1952–2020, C) *Kathleen Peirce (born 1956, US) *J. D. C. Pellow (1890–1960, E) *Nathan Penlington (living, W/E) *Anne Penny (1729–1784, W/E) *Margaret Pennyman (bap. 1685, d. 1733), E *Hilary Douglas Clark Pepler (1878–1951, E) *Sam Pereira (born 1949, US) *Lucia Perillo (1958–2016, US) *Grace Perry (1927–1987, A) *Alice E. Heckler Peters (1845–1921, US) *Lenrie Peters (1932–2009, Ga) *Robert Peters (playwright), Robert Peters (1924–2014, US) *Pascale Petit (poet), Pascale Petit (born 1953, W) *Mario Petrucci (born 1958, E) *W. T. Pfefferle (born 1962, C) *Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan (1890–1964, US) *M. NourbeSe Philip (born 1947, T/C) *Ambrose Philips (1674–1749, E) *Katherine Philips (1631/1632–1664, E/W) *Ben Phillips (born 1947, C) *Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960, E) *Alison Pick (born 1975, C) *Tom Pickard (born 1946, E) *Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (born 1975, US/C) *Marge Piercy (born 1936, US) *Laetitia Pilkington (c. 1709–1750, Ir/E) *Mary Pilkington (1761–1839, E) *Sarah Pinder (living, C) *Percy Edward Pinkerton (1855–1946, E) *Robert Pinsky (born 1940, US) *George Pirie (publisher), George Pirie (1799–1870, C) *Christopher Pitt (1699–1748, E) *Marie Pitt (1869–1948, A) *Ruth Pitter (1897–1992, E) *Al Pittman (1940–2001, C) *Marjorie Pizer (1920–2016, A) *Sylvia Plath (1932–1963, US/E) *William Plomer (1903–1973, SA/E) *Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878–1957, Ir/E) *Joseph Plunkett (1887–1916, Ir) *Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849, US) *Emily Pohl-Weary (born 1973, C) *Craig Poile (living, C) *Suman Pokhrel (born 1967, Ne) *Marcella Polain (born 1958, A) *Margaret Steuart Pollard (1904–1996, E) *Edward Pollock (1823–1858, US) *Robert Pollok (poet), Robert Pollok (c. 1798–1827, S) *John Pomfret (poet), John Pomfret (1667–1702, E) *Marie Ponsot (1921–2019, US) *John Pook (born 1942, W/F) *Sandy Pool (living, C) *Marie Ponsot (1921–2019, US) *Alexander Pope (1688–1744, E) *Judith Pordon (born 1954, US) *Anna Maria Porter (1780–1832, E) *Dorothy Porter (1954–2008, A) *Hal Porter (1911–1984, A) *Peter Porter (poet), Peter Porter (1929–2010, A) *Rochelle Potkar (born 1979, In) *Robert Potter (translator), Robert Potter (1721–1804, E) *Charles Potts (born 1943, US) *Ezra Pound (1885–1972, US) *B. W. Powe (born 1955, C) *Craig Powell (poet), Craig Powell (born 1940, A) *Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839, E) *Claire Pratt (1921–1995, C) *E. J. Pratt (1882–1964, C) *Jack Prelutsky (born 1940, US) *Karen Press (born 1956, SA) *Thomas Preston (writer), Thomas Preston (1537–1598, E) *Ron Pretty (1940–2023, A) *Frank Prewett (1893–1962, C) *Nancy Price (1880–1970, E) *Richard Price (poet), Richard Price (born 1966, S/E) *Robert Priest (born 1951, C) *F. T. Prince (1912–2003, E) *Thomas Pringle (1789–1834, S/SA) *Matthew Prior (1664–1721, E) *Pauline Prior-Pitt (living, S) *Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864, E) *Bryan Procter (1787–1874, E) *Kevin Prufer (born 1969, US) *J. H. Prynne (born 1936, E) *Sheenagh Pugh (born 1950, W/E) *Al Purdy (1918–2000, C)

Q

*Andy Quan (born 1969, C/A) *Francis Quarles (1592–1644, E) *Peter Quennell (1905–1993, E) *Sina Queyras (living, C) *Roderic Quinn (1867–1949, A)

R

Ra–Ri

*William Radice (born 1951, E) *Kenneth Radu (born 1945, C) *Sam Ragan (1915–1996, US) *Jennifer Rahim (born 1963, T) *Craig Raine (born 1944, E) *Kathleen Raine (1908–2003, US) *Carl Rakosi (1903–2004, US) *Walter Raleigh (1552 or 1554–1618, E) *James Ralph (1705–1762, US/E) *Raymond Ramcharitar (living, T) *Lesego Rampolokeng (born 1965, S) *Allan Ramsay (poet), Allan Ramsay (1686–1758, S) *Theodore Harding Rand (1835–1900, C) *Dudley Randall (1914–2000, US) *Julia Randall (1924–2005, US) *Thomas Randolph (poet), Thomas Randolph (1605–1635, E) *Jennifer Rankin (1941–1979, A) *Claudia Rankine (born 1963, J) *John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974, US) *Lennox Raphael (born 1939, J) *Stephen Ratcliffe (born 1948, US) *Angela Rawlings (born 1978, C) *Tom Raworth (1938–2017, E) *Herbert Read (1893–1968, E) *Angela Readman (born 1973, E) *James Reaney (1926–2008, C) *George Reavey (1907–1976, Ir) *Peter Redgrove (1932–2003, E) *Michael Redhill (born 1966, C) *Beatrice Redpath (1886–1937, C) *Henry Reed (poet), Henry Reed (1914–1986, E) *Ishmael Reed (born 1938, US) *Jeremy Reed (writer), Jeremy Reed (born 1951, Je) *Kerry Reed-Gilbert (1956–2019, A) *Ennis Rees (1925–2009, US) *Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856–1935, US) *Deryn Rees-Jones (living, E/W) *James Reeves (writer), James Reeves (1909–1978, E) *Nell Regan (born 1969, Ir) *Alastair Reid (poet), Alastair Reid (1926–2014, S) *Christopher Reid (writer), Christopher Reid (born 1949, E) *D. C. Reid (born 1952, C) *Jamie Reid (Canadian poet), Jamie Reid (1941–2015, C) *Azila Talit Reisenberger (living, SA) *James Reiss (1941–2016, US) *Joseph Relph (1712–1743, E) *Robert Rendall (1898–1967, S) *Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982, US) *Oliver Reynolds (born 1957, W) *Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976, US) *Shane Rhodes (living, C) *Ernest Rhys (1859–1946, W/E) *Henry Rice (writer), Henry Rice (1585 or 1586–1651, W/E) *Stan Rice (1942–2002, US) *Adrienne Rich (1929–2012, US) *Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957, E) *John Richardson (poet), John Richardson (1817–1886, E) *Robert Richardson (poet), Robert Richardson (1850–1901, A) *Edgell Rickword (1898–1982, E) *Elizabeth Riddell (1910–1998, A) *Lola Ridge (1873–1941, US) *Laura Riding (1901–1991, US) *Elijah Ridings (1802–1872) *Anne Ridler (1912–2001, E) *Denise Riley (born 1948, E) *James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916, US) *John Riley (poet), John Riley (1937–1978, E) *Peter Riley (born 1940, E) *Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958, US) *Maurice Riordan (born 1953, Ir) *Alberto Ríos (born 1952, US)

Ro–Ru

*E. M. Roach (Merton Maloney, 1915–1974, T) *Charles G. D. Roberts (1860–1943, C) *Emma Roberts (author), Emma Roberts (1794–1840, E) *Michael Roberts (writer), Michael Roberts (1902–1948, E) *Edith Anne Robertson (1883–1973, S) *James Robertson (novelist), James Robertson (born 1958, S) *Lisa Robertson (writer), Lisa Robertson (born 1961, C) *Robin Robertson (born 1955, S) *Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935, US) *Lennox Robinson (1886–1958, Ir) *Mary Robinson (poet), Mary Robinson (1758–1800, E) *Matt Robinson (poet), Matt Robinson (born 1974, C) *Roland Robinson (poet), Roland Robinson (1912–1992, A) *Ajmer Rode (living, C) *Gordon Rodgers (born 1952, C) *W. R. Rodgers (1909–1969, NI) *Carmen Rodríguez (born 1948 Ch/C) *Judith Rodriguez (1936–2018, A) *Theodore Roethke (1908–1963, US) *January Rogers (born 1963, C) *Linda Rogers (born 1944, C) *Samuel Rogers (1763–1855, E) *Isabella Whiteford Rogerson (Isabella Whiteford, 1835–1905, Ir/C) *Matthew Rohrer (born 1972, US) *Mary Rolls (1775–1835, E) *Ethel Rolt Wheeler (1869–1958, E) *David Romtvedt (living, US) *Dilys Rose (born 1954, S) *Peter Rose (poet), Peter Rose (born 1955, A) *Raymond Roseliep (1917–1983, US) *Franklin Rosemont (1943–2009, US) *Penelope Rosemont (born 1942, US) *Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918, E) *Joe Rosenblatt (1933–2019, C) *Gabriel Rosenstock (born 1949, Ir) *Laisha Rosnau (born 1972, C) *Alan Ross (1922–2001, E) *Bruce Ross (living, C) *Stuart Ross (born 1959, C) *W. W. E. Ross (1894–1966, C) *Christina Rossetti (1830–1894, E) *Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882, E) *Jerome Rothenberg (1931–2024, US) *Nancy-Gay Rotstein (living, C) *Anne Rouse (born 1954, US/E) *David Rowbotham (1924–2010, A) *Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674–1737, E) *Nicholas Rowe (writer), Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718, E) *Noel Rowe (1951–2007, A) *Stephen Rowe (poet), Stephen Rowe (born 1980, C) *Graham Rowlands (born 1947, A) *Richard Rowlands (1565–1630, E/Nt) *Samuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630, E) *Rosemarie Rowley (born 1942, Ir) *Susanna Rowson (1762–1824, E/US) *Susanna Roxman (1946–2015, Sw) *Adam Rudden (born 1983, Ir) *Ellen Sergeant Rude (1838–1916, US) *Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980, US) *James Runcie#Personal life, Charlotte Runcie (born 1989, S) *Jenny Terrill Ruprecht (1839–1916, US) *George William Russell (1867–1935, Ir/E) *Nipsey Russell (1918–2005, US) *Brendan Ryan (poet), Brendan Ryan (born 1963, A) *Gig Ryan (born 1956, A) *Kay Ryan (born 1945, US) *Michael Ryan (poet), Michael Ryan (born 1946, US) *Tracy Ryan (writer), Tracy Ryan (born 1964, A) *Thomas Rymer (c. 1643–1713, E)

S

Sa–Si

*Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, Charles Sackville (1643–1706, E) *Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, Thomas Sackville (1536–1608, E) *Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962, E) *Benjamin Alire Sáenz (born 1954, US) *Maria Grace Saffery (1773–1858, E) *Lake Sagaris (born 1956, C/Ch) *Nandini Sahu (born 1973, In) *Albert Saijo (1926–2011, US) *Arja Salafranca (born 1971, SA) *Trish Salah (living, C) *Nina Salaman (1877–1925, E) *Blanaid Salkeld (1880–1959, Ir) *Philip Salom (born 1950, A) *John Salusbury (poet), John Salusbury (1567–1612, W/E) *Sir Thomas Salusbury, 2nd Baronet, Thomas Salusbury (1612–1643, W/E) *Fiona Sampson (born 1963, E) *Sonia Sanchez (born 1934, US) *Carl Sandburg (1878–1967, US) *Peter Sanger (born 1943, C) *Charles Sangster (1822–1893, C) *Ann Sansom (living, E) *Clive Sansom (1910–1981, E/A) *Andrew Sant (born 1950, A) *Robyn Sarah (born 1949, C) *Jaydeep Sarangi (born 1973, India) *Dipti Saravanamuttu (born 1960, A) *May Sarton (1912–1995, US) *Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967, E) *K. Satchidanandan (born 1948, In) *Esther Saunders (1793–1862, US) *Jen Saunders (born 1962, A) *Richard Savage (poet), Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743, E) *Jaya Savige (born 1978, A) *Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010, US) *Herman George Scheffauer (1876–1927, US) *Jacob Scheier (born 1980, C) *Libby Scheier (1946–2000, US/C) *Bel Schenk (born 1975, A) *Dennis Schmitz (1937–2019, US) *Pat Schneider (1934–2020, US) *Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842, US) *Andreas Schroeder (born 1946, C) *Philip Schultz (born 1945, US) *James Schuyler (1923–1991, US) *Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966, US) *Stephen Scobie (born 1943, C) *Gregory Scofield (born 1966, C) *Alexander Scott (16th-century poet), Alexander Scott (c. 1520 – c. 1583, S) *Alexander Scott (20th-century poet), Alexander Scott (1920–1989, S) *Dennis Scott (writer), Dennis Scott (1939–1991, J) *Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947, C) *F. R. Scott (1899–1985, C) *Frederick George Scott (1861–1944, C) *Geoffrey Scott (architectural historian), Geoffrey Scott (1884–1929, E) *John A. Scott (born 1948, A) *Margaret Scott (Australian author), Margaret Scott (1934–2005, A) *Peter Dale Scott (born 1929, C) *Tom Scott (poet), Tom Scott (1918–1995, S) *Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832, S) *William Bell Scott (1811–1890, S) *Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011, US) *Ann Scott-Moncrieff (1914–1943, S) *E. J. Scovell (1907–1999, E) *Maurice Scully (1952–2023, Ir) *George Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991, E) *Peter Seaton (1942–2010, US) *Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, Charles Sedley (1639–1701, E) *Frederick Seidel (born 1936, US) *Hugh Seidman (born 1940, US) *Rebecca Seiferle (living, US) *Lasana M. Sekou (born 1959, SM) *Francis Sempill (c. 1616–1682, S) *Robert Sempill the younger, Robert Sempill (c. 1595 – c. 1663, S) *Olive Senior (born 1941, J/C) *Sipho Sepamla (1932–2007, SA) *Mongane Wally Serote (born 1944, SA) *Nina Serrano (born 1934, US) *Robert W. Service (1874–1958, S/C) *Vikram Seth (born 1952, SM) *Elkanah Settle (1648–1724, E) *Anna Seward (1742–1809, E) *Anne Sexton (1928–1974, US) *John W. Sexton (born 1958, Ir) *Thomas Shadwell (1642–1692, E) *Kathy Shaidle (born 1964, C) *William Shakespeare (1564–1616, E) *Tupac Shakur (1971–1996, US) *Otep Shamaya (born 1979, US) *Eileen Shanahan (1901–1979, Ir) *Ntozake Shange (1948–2018, US) *Edward Shanks (1892–1953, E) *Jo Shapcott (born 1953, E) *Thomas Shapcott (born 1935, A) *Karl Shapiro (1913–2000, US) *Michael Sharkey (born 1946, A) *William Sharp (writer), William Sharp (awa Fiona MacLeod, 1855–1905, S) *Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970, US) *Luci Shaw (born 1928, E/US) *Owen Sheers (born 1974, W/E) *Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822, E) *William Shenstone (1714–1763, E) *Nan Shepherd (1893–1981, S) *Francis Joseph Sherman (1871–1926, C) *Joseph Sherman (1945–2006, C) *Kate Brownlee Sherwood (1841–1914, US) *Carol Shields (1935–2003, US/C) *Trish Shields (living, C) *Scarrington, Thomas Shipman (1632–1680, E) *James Shirley (1596–1666, E) *Dora Adele Shoemaker (1873–1962, US) *Fredegond Shove (1889–1949, E) *Sandy Shreve (living, C) *Penelope Shuttle (born 1947, E) *Beau Sia (born 1976, US) *Mary Sidney (1561–1621, E) *Philip Sidney (1554–1586, E) *Melanie Siebert (living, C) *Eli Siegel (1902–1978, US) *Robert Siegel (author), Robert Siegel (1939–2012, US) *Jon Silkin (1930–1997, E) *Hilda Siller (1861–1945, US) *Ron Silliman (born 1946, US) *Shel Silverstein (1930–1999, US) *Charles Simic (1938–2023, US) *Goran Simić (poet), Goran Simić (born 1952, Bo/C) *Bren Simmers (born 1976, C) *James Simmons (poet), James Simmons (1933–2001, NI) *Anne Simpson (born 1956, C) *Louis Simpson (1923–2012, J/US) *Matt Simpson (poet), Matt Simpson (1936–2009, E) *R. A. Simpson (1929–2002, A) *Bennie Lee Sinclair (1939–2000, US) *Iain Sinclair (born 1943, W/E) *May Sinclair (1863–1946, E) *Sue Sinclair (living, C) *Tim Sinclair (born 1972, A) *Burns Singer (1928–1964, S) *Marilyn Singer (born 1948, US) *Sarah Singleton (born 1966, E) *George Sipos (living, C) *Peter Sirr (born 1960, Ir) *Lemn Sissay (born 1967, E) *C. H. Sisson (1914–2003, E) *Ari Sitas (born 1952, SA) *Edith Sitwell (1887–1964, E) *Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969, E) *Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988, E)

Sk–Sq

*Sonja Skarstedt (1960–2009, C) *John Skelton (poet), John Skelton (1460–1529, E) *Robin Skelton (1925–1997, E/C) *Douglas Reid Skinner (born 1949, SA) *Myra Sklarew (born 1934, US) *Ed Skoog (born 1971, US) *Zoë Skoulding (born 1967, W) *Peter Skrzynecki (born 1945, A) *Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971, A) *Daniel Sloate (1931–2009, C) *Edward Slow (1841–1925, E) *Adam Small (writer), Adam Small (1936–2016, SA) *Carolyn Smart (born 1952, C) *Christopher Smart (1722–1771, E) *Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author), Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986, C) *A. J. M. Smith (1902–1980, C) *Alexander Smith (poet), Alexander Smith (1830–1867, S) *Bruce Smith (poet), Bruce Smith (born 1946, US) *Charlotte Turner Smith (1749–1806, E) *Clara Kathleen Smith (1911–2004, C) *Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961, US) *Douglas Burnet Smith (born 1949, C) *Iain Crichton Smith (1928–1998, S) *John Smith (Canadian poet), John Smith (1927–2018, C) *Malachi Smith (poet), Malachi Smith (living, J) *Marc Smith (American poet), Marc Smith (born 1949, US) *Margaret Smith (poet), Margaret Smith (born 1958, US) *Michael Smith (poet), Michael Smith (1942–2014, Ir) *Michael V. Smith (living, C) *Patti Smith (born 1946, US) *Rod Smith (poet), Rod Smith (born 1962, US) *Ron Smith (Canadian author), Ron Smith (born 1943, C) *Steven Ross Smith (born 1945, C) *Stevie Smith (1902–1971, E) *Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975, S) *Tracy K. Smith (born 1972, US) *Vivian Smith (poet), Vivian Smith (born 1933, A) *William Jay Smith (1918–2015, US) *Tobias Smollett (1721–1771, S) *W. D. Snodgrass (1925–2009, US) *Gary Snyder (born 1930, US) *Karen Solie (born 1966, C) *David Solway (born 1941, C) *William Somervile (1675–1742, E) *Cathy Song (born 1955, US) *Madeline Sonik (born 1960, C) *Edward Sorenson (1869–1939, A) *Charles Sorley (1895–1915, S) *Gary Soto (born 1952, US) *Carolyn Marie Souaid (born 1959, C) *Raymond Souster (1921–2012, C) *William Soutar (1898–1946, S) *Caroline Anne Southey (1786–1854, E) *Robert Southey (1774–1843, E) *Robert Southwell (Jesuit), Robert Southwell (1561–1595, E) *Wole Soyinka (born 1934, Ni) *Esta Spalding (living, US/C) *Heather Spears (1934–2021, C/De) *Alan Spence (living, S) *Lewis Spence (1874–1955, S) *Anne Spencer (1882–1975, US) *Bernard Spencer (1909–1963, E) *Thomas Edward Spencer (1845–1911, A) *Stephen Spender (1909–1995, E) *Edmund Spenser (1552–1599, E) *Leonora Speyer (1872–1956, US) *Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835–1921, US) *Eintou Pearl Springer (born 1944, T) *Birk Sproxton (1943–2007, C) *J. C. Squire (1884–1958, E) *Geoffrey Squires (born 1942, NI)

St–Sy

*William Stafford (poet), William Stafford (1914–1993, US) *A. E. Stallings (born 1968, US) *Jon Stallworthy (1935–2014, E) *Ann Stanford (1916–1987, US) *Frank Stanford (1948–1978, US) *George Stanley (poet), George Stanley (born 1937, US/C) *George Starbuck (1931–1996, US) *Carmine Starnino (born 1970, C) *Nicolette Stasko (born 1950, A) *C. K. Stead (born 1932, NZ) *Peter Steele (poet), Peter Steele (1939–2012, A) *Richard Steere (author), Richard Steere (1643–1721, US) *John Steffler (born 1947, C) *Gertrude Stein (1874–1946, US) *Mattie Stepanek (1990–2004, US) *Ian Stephens (poet), Ian Stephens (1955–1996, C) *James Stephens (author), James Stephens (1880–1950, Ir) *James Brunton Stephens (1835–1902, S) *George Stepney (1663–1707, E) *John Sterling (author), John Sterling (1806–1844, S) *Gerald Stern (1925–2022, US) *Ricardo Sternberg (born 1948, C/US) *C. J. Stevens (1927–2021, US) *Wallace Stevens (1880–1955, US) *Richard Stevenson (poet), Richard Stevenson (born 1952, C) *Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894, S) *Margo Taft Stever (living, US) *Amanda Stewart (born 1959, A) *Douglas Stewart (poet), Douglas Stewart (1913–1985, A) *Harold Stewart (1916–1995, A) *Shannon Stewart (poet), Shannon Stewart (living, C) *W. Gregory Stewart (living, C/US) *Trumbull Stickney (1874–1904, US) *John Stiles (living, C/E) *James Still (poet), James Still (1906–2001, US) *Anne Stone (writer), Anne Stone (living, C) *Donna J. Stone (1933–1994, US) *Ruth Stone (1915–2011, US) *Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born 1968, US) *Edward Storer (1880–1944, E) *Randolph Stow (1935–2010, A) *Mark Strand (1934–2014, US) *Jennifer Strauss (born 1933, A) *Sean Street (born 1946, E) *Agnes Strickland (1796–1874, E) *Adelle Stripe (born 1976, E) *Trumbull Stickney (1874–1904, US) *Donna J. Stone (1933–1994, US) *Billy Marshall Stoneking (1947–2016, A) *Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born 1968, US) *Edward Storer (1880–1944, E) *Eithne Strong (1923–1999, Ir) *Joseph Stroud (born 1943, US) *Betsy Struthers (born 1951, C) *John Struthers (poet), John Struthers (1776–1853, S) *Jesse Stuart (1906–1984, US) *Abhi Subedi (born 1945) *John Suckling (poet), John Suckling (1609–1642, E) *Julie Suk (born 1924, US) *Andrew Suknaski (1942–2012, C) *Alan Sullivan (1868–1947, C) *Aloysius Michael Sullivan (1896–1980, US) *Rosemary Sullivan (born 1947, C) *Maud Sulter (1960–2008, S) *Moez Surani (born 1979, C) *Kamala Surayya (1934–2009, In) *Efua Sutherland (1924–1996, Gh) *John Sutherland (Canadian writer), John Sutherland (1919–1956, C) *Robert Swanson (inventor), Robert Swanson (1905–1994, C) *Robert Sward (1933–2022, US/C) *George Swede (born 1940, C) *Matthew Sweeney (1951–2018, Ir) *Cole Swensen (born 1955, US) *Karen Swenson (born 1936, US) *May Swenson (1913–1989, US) *Jonathan Swift (1667–1745, Ir/E) *Todd Swift (born 1966, C/E) *Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909, E) *Randall Swingler (1909–1967, E) *Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal (c. 1430 – c. 1480, W) *Bobbi Sykes (1943–2010, A) *Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618, E) *Arthur Symons (1865–1945, E) *John Millington Synge (1871–1909, Ir) *Arthur Sze (born 1950, US) *George Szirtes (born 1948, E) *Anne Szumigalski (1922–1999, E/C)

T

*Eileen Tabios (born 1960, US) *Proma Tagore (living, C) *Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941, In) *Maria Takolander (born 1973, A) *Ronald Phillip Tanaka (1944–2007, US) *Francis W. Tancred (1874–1925, E) *Robert Tannahill (1774–1810, S) *Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012, US) *Allen Tate (1899–1979, US) *James Tate (writer), James Tate (1943–2015, US) *Emma Tatham (1829–1855, E) *Andrew Taylor (poet), Andrew Taylor (born 1940, A) *Ann Taylor (poet), Ann Taylor (1782–1866, E) *Bruce Taylor (poet), Bruce Taylor (born 1960, C) *Edward Taylor (1645–1729, E/US) *Emily Taylor (1795–1872, E) *Heather Taylor (living, C) *Henry Taylor (dramatist), Henry Taylor (1800–1886, E) *Henry S. Taylor (born 1942, US) *Jane Taylor (poet), Jane Taylor (1783–1824, E) *Rachel Annand Taylor (1876–1960, S) *Ruth Taylor (poet), Ruth Taylor (1961–2006, C) *Sara Teasdale (1883–1933, US) *Barry Tebb (born 1942, E) *Fiona Templeton (born 1951, S/E) *William Tennant (poet), William Tennant (1784–1848, S) *Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892, E) *Frederick Tennyson (1807–1898, E) *John Terpstra (living, C) *Elaine Terranova (born 1939, US) *A. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962, E) *Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821, US) *Souvankham Thammavongsa (born 1978, C) *Celia Thaxter (1824–1894, US) *Ernest Thayer (1863–1940, US) *John Thelwall (1764–1834, E) *Sharon Thesen (born 1946, C) *Colin Thiele (1920–2006, A) *Kai Cheng Thom (living, C) *William Thom (poet), William Thom (1799–1848, S) *Thomas the Rhymer (Thomas Learmonth, c. 1220 – c. 1298, S) *Thomas of Hales (13th c., E) *D. M. Thomas (1935–2023, E) *Dylan Thomas (1914–1953, W/E) *Edward Thomas (poet), Edward Thomas (1878–1917, E) *Elizabeth Thomas (poet, born 1675), Elizabeth Thomas (1675–1731, E) *Lorenzo Thomas (poet), Lorenzo Thomas (1944–2005, US) *R. S. Thomas (1913–2000, W) *William Thomas (Islwyn), William Thomas (1832–1878, W) *Francis Thompson (1859–1907, E) *John Thompson (Canadian poet), John Thompson (1938–1976, E/C) *John Reuben Thompson (1823–1873, US) *Edward William Thomson (writer), Edward William Thomson (1849–1924, C) *James Thomson (poet, born 1700), James Thomson (1700–1748, S) *James Thomson (poet, born 1834), James Thomson (awa Bysshe Vanolis, 1834–1882, S) *Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862, US) *Tim Thorne (1944–2021, A) *Russell Thornton (writer), Russell Thornton (living, C) *Joseph Thurston (poet), Joseph Thurston (1704–1732, E) *Anthony Thwaite (1930–2021, E) *Michael Thwaites (1915–2005, A) *Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586, E) *Thomas Tickell (1685–1740, E) *Matthew Tierney (poet), Matthew Tierney (born 1970, C) *Mary Tighe (1772–1810, Ir) *Lydia H. Tilton (1839–1915, US) *Richard Tipping (born 1949, A) *José Tlatelpas (born 1953, Me/C) *Nick Toczek (born 1950, E) *Barbara Euphan Todd (1890–1976, E) *Ruthven Todd (1914–1978, S) *Mohamud Siad Togane (born 1947, So/C) *J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973, E) *Francis Tolson (died 1745, E) *Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966, US) *Charles Tomlinson (1927–2015, E) *Jean Toomer (1894–1967, US) *Charles Tompson (1807–1883, A) *Angela Topping (born 1954, E) *Lola Lemire Tostevin (born 1937, C) *Cyril Tourneur (died 1626, E) *Ann Townsend (born 1962, US) *Thomas Traherne (1636/1637–1674, E) *John Tranter (1943–2023, A) *Elizabeth Treadwell (born 1967, US) *Mark Tredinnick (born 1962, A) *Rhea Tregebov (born 1953, C) *Raymond D. Tremblay (living, C) *Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972, C/E) *Natasha Trethewey (born 1966, US) *Tony Trigilio (born 1966, US) *Calvin Trillin (born 1935, US) *David Trinidad (born 1953, US) *John Tripp (poet), John Tripp (1927–1986, W/E) *Quincy Troupe (born 1939, US) *Peter Trower (1930–2017, C) *Mark Truscott (born 1970, US/C) *Dimitris Tsaloumas (1921–2016, A) *Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E, 1821–1893, E) *Eliza Dorothea Cobbe, Lady Tuite (c. 1764–1850, Ir) *George Turberville (c. 1540 – before 1597, E) *Richard Marggraf Turley (born 1970, E) *Gael Turnbull (1928–2004, S) *Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879, E) *Julian Turner (born 1955, E) *Walter J. Turner (1889–1946, A/E) *Thomas Tusser (1524–1580, E) *Emma Rood Tuttle (1839–1916, US) *Hone Tuwhare (1922–2008, NZ) *Violet Tweedale (1862–1936, S/E) *Chase Twichell (born 1950, US) *Katharine Tynan (1859–1932, Ir/E) *John Tyndall (poet), John Tyndall (born 1951, C) *Daniel Scott Tysdal (born 1978, C)

U

*Laura Ulewicz (1930–2007, US) *Jeff Unaegbu (born 1979, Ni) *Jean Starr Untermeyer (1886–1970, US) *Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977, US) *John Updike (1932–2009, US) *Priscila Uppal (1974–2018, C) *Allen Upward (1863–1926, E) *Joan Ure (Elizabeth Thoms Clark, 1918–1978, S) *David UU (David W. Harris, 1948–1994, C) *Amy Uyematsu (1947–2023, US)

V

*Jean Valentine (1934–2020, US) *Valentine Vallis (1916–2009, A) *Cor van den Heuvel (born 1931, US) *Mona Van Duyn (1921–2004, US) *Lin Van Hek (born 1944, A) *Peter van Toorn (1944–2021, C) *Christopher van Wyk (1957–2014, SA) *Henry Vaughan (1621–1695, W) *R. M. Vaughan (born 1965, C) *Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden (1509–1556, E) *Reetika Vazirani (1962–2003, US) *Janine Pommy Vega (1942–2010, US) *Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford (1550–1604, E) *Helen Vendler (1933–2024, US) *Jumoke Verissimo (born 1976, Ni) *Paul Vermeersch (born 1973, C) *Katherena Vermette (born 1977, C) *Jones Very (1813–1880, US) *Vicki Viidikas (1948–1998, A) *Peter Viereck (1916–2006, US) *José García Villa (1908–1997, Ph) *Pamelia Sarah Vining (1826–1897, C) *Vivian Virtue (1911–1998, J/E) *Garth Von Buchholz (living, C) *Brian Vrepont (1882–1955, A) *Prvoslav Vujcic (Prvoslav Vujčić, born 1960, Se/C)

W

Wa–We

*Miriam Waddington (1917–2004, C) *Michael Wade (Canadian actor), Michael Wade (1944–2004, C) *Sidney Wade (born 1951, US) *Fred Wah (born 1939, C) *John Wain (1925–1994, E) *A. E. Waite (1857–1942, E) *Nayyirah Waheed (living, US) *Diane Wakoski (born 1937, US) *Derek Walcott (1930–2017, SL) *Anne Waldman (born 1945, US) *George Waldron (1690 – c. 1730, E/IoM) *Keith Waldrop (1932–2023, US) *Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935, US) *Arthur Waley (1889–1966, E) *Alice Walker (born 1944, US) *Margaret Walker (1915–1998, US) *Rob Walker (poet), Rob Walker (born 1953, A) *Bronwen Wallace (1945–1989, C) *Chris Wallace-Crabbe (born 1934, A) *Edmund Waller (1606–1687, E) *Tom Walmsley (born 1948, C) *Agnes Walsh (born 1950, C) *Catherine Walsh (poet), Catherine Walsh (born 1964, Ir) *Minnie Gow Walsworth (1859–1947, US) *David Waltner-Toews (born 1948, C) *Ania Walwicz (1951–2020, A) *Connie Wanek (born 1952, US) *John Powell Ward (born 1937, E/W) *Ned Ward (1667–1731, E) *Sarah Wardle (born 1969, E) *Anna Laetitia Waring (1823–1910, W/E) *Emily Warn (living, US) *Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978, E) *Crystal Warren (living, SA) *John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley (1835–1895, E) *Meralda Warren (born 1959, PI) *Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989, US) *Thomas Warton (1728–1790, E) *Terry Watada (born 1951, C) *Vernon Watkins (1906–1967, W) *George Watsky (born 1986, US) *Rosamund Marriott Watson (Graham R. Tomson, 1860–1911, E) *Samuel Wagan Watson (born 1972, A) *Stephen Watson (poet), Stephen Watson (1954–2011, SA) *Thomas Watson (poet), Thomas Watson (1555–1592, E) *William Watson (poet), William Watson (1858–1935, E) *Alison Watt (writer), Alison Watt (born 1957, C) *Barrett Watten (born 1948, US) *Isaac Watts (1674–1748, E) *Rebecca Watts (born 1983, E) *Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914, E) *Tom Wayman (born 1945, C) *Alan Wearne (born 1948, A) *Francis Webb (poet), Francis Webb (1925–1973, A) *Harri Webb (1920–1994, W) *Phyllis Webb (1927–2021, C) *John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634, E) *Mary Morison Webster (1894–1980, SA) *James Wedderburn (poet), James Wedderburn (c. 1495–1553, S) *John Wedderburn (poet), John Wedderburn (c. 1505–1553, S) *Robert Wedderburn (poet), Robert Wedderburn (c. 1510 – c. 1555, S) *Rebecca Wee (living, US) *George Weideman (1947–2008, SA) *John Weier (born 1949, C) *Hannah Weiner (1928–1997, US) *Robert Stanley Weir (1856–1926, C) *Marjorie Welish (born 1944, US) *Zachariah Wells (born 1976, C) *Viola S. Wendt (1907–1986, US) *Marjory Heath Wentworth (born 1958, US) *William Wentworth (1790–1872, A) *Darren Wershler (Darren Wershler-Henry, born 1966, C) *Charles Wesley (1707–1788, E) *Gilbert West (1703–1756, E) *Jane West (novelist), Jane West (1758–1852, E) *David Wevill (born 1935, C/US)

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*Philip Whalen (1923–2002, US) *Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972, C) *Anne Wharton (1659–1685, E) *Gordon Wharton (1929–2011, E) *Herb Wharton (born 1936, A) *Mary Whateley (1738–1835, E) *Anne Wheathill (fl. 1584, E) *David Wheatley (poet), David Wheatley (born 1970, Ir/S) *Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784, US) *Billy Edd Wheeler (born 1932, US) *E. B. White (1899–1985, US) *Henry Kirke White (1785–1806, E) *James L. White (poet), James L. White (1936–1981, US) *Kenneth White (1936–2023, S) *Laura Rosamond White (1844–1922, US) *Joshua Whitehead (living, C) *Bruce Whiteman (born 1952, C) *Walt Whitman (1819–1892, US) *Isabella Whitney (c. 1546/1548 – after 1624, E) *Zoe Whittall (born 1976, C) *Reed Whittemore (1919–2012, US) *John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892, US) *Brian Whittingham (1950–2022, S) *Christopher Whyte (writer), Christopher Whyte (born 1952, S) *George Whyte-Melville (1821–1878, S/E) *Anna Wickham (1883–1947, E/A) *Les Wicks (born 1955, A) *John Wieners (1934–2002, US) *Nissanka Wijeyeratne (1924–2007, SLa) *Richard Wilbur (1921–2017, US) *Dora Wilcox (1873–1953, A) *Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919, US) *Robert Wild (poet), Robert Will (1615–1679, E) *Jane Wilde (1821–1896, Ir/E) *Oscar Wilde (1854–1900, Ir/E) *Amos Wilder (1895–1993, US) *Charlotte Wilder (1898–1980, US) *Anne Wilkinson (poet), Anne Wilkinson (1910–1961, C) *John Wilkinson (poet), John Wilkinson (born 1953, E) *William of Nassyngton (died 1354, E) *William of Shoreham (fl. 14th century, E) *Aeneas Francon Williams (1886–1971, E) *Alfred Williams (poet), Alfred Williams (1877–1930, E) *Anna Williams (poet), Anna Williams (1706–1783, W/E) *Athol Williams (born 1970, SA) *C. K. Williams (1936–2015, US) *David Gwyn Williams (1904–1990, W/E) *Donna Williams (1963–2017, A) *Emmett Williams (1925–2007, US) *Heathcote Williams (1941–2017, E) *Helen Maria Williams (1759/1762–1827, E/F) *Hugo Williams (born 1942, E) *Isaac Williams (writer), Isaac Williams (1802–1865, E) *Jane Williams (Ysgafell), Jane Williams (1806–1885, W/E) *Jonathan Williams (poet), Jonathan Williams (1929–2008, US) *Miller Williams (1930–2015, US) *Oscar Williams (poet), Oscar Williams (1900–1964, US) *Richard D'Alton Williams (1822–1862, Ir) *Rowan Williams (born 1950, W/E) *Saul Williams (born 1972, US) *Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999, US) *William Carlos Williams (1883–1963, US) *Frank S. Williamson (1865–1936, A) *Elizabeth Willis (born 1961, US) *James Wills (poet), James Wills (1790–1868, Ir) *Ruth Wills (1826–1908, E) *Clive Wilmer (1945–2025, E) *Frank Wilmot (Furnley Maurice, 1881–1942, A) *John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680, E) *Eleanor Wilner (born 1937, US) *Alan R. Wilson (living, C) *Anne Elizabeth Wilson (1901–1946, US/C) *Arthur Wilson (writer), Arthur Wilson (1595–1652, E) *Dede Wilson (born 1937, US) *Edwin Wilson (poet), Edwin Wilson (born 1942, A) *Florence Mary Wilson (writer), Florence Mary Wilson (c. 1870–1946, Ir/NI) *Peter Lamborn Wilson (also Hakim Bey, 1945–2022, US) *Sheri-D Wilson (living, C) *Christian Wiman (born 1966, US) *Liz Winfield (born 1964, A) *Rob Winger (born 1974, C) *Sheila Wingfield (1906–1992, E/Ir) *Yvor Winters (1900–1968, US) *Jane Wiseman (Mrs. Holt, 1673 – after 1717, E) *George Wither (1588–1667, E) *Charles Wolfe (poet), Charles Wolfe (1791–1823, Ir) *Humbert Wolfe (1885–1940, E) *Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938, US) *Theresa Wolfwood (living, C) *Jennifer Wong (living, HK) *Nellie Wong (born 1934, US) *Gwyneth Barber Wood (died 2006, J) *George Woodcock (1912–1995, C) *Gregory Woods (born 1953, E) *Joseph Woods (poet), Joseph Woods (born 1966, Ir/Z) *Macdara Woods (1942–2018, Ir) *Lance Woolaver (born 1948, C) *Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855, E) *William Wordsworth (1770–1850, E) *Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866, E) *Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639, E) *Carolyn D. Wright (1949–2016, US) *Carolyne Wright (born 1949, US) *Charles Wright (poet), Charles Wright (born 1935, US) *David Wright (poet), David Wright (1920–1994, E) *David McKee Wright (1869–1928, NZ/A) *Franz Wright (1953–2015, US) *James Wright (poet), James Wright (1927–1980, US) *Jay Wright (poet), Jay Wright (born 1935, US) *Judith Wright (1915–2000, A) *Kirby Wright (living, US) *Luke Wright (poet), Luke Wright (born 1982, E) *Robert Wrigley (born 1951, US) *Lady Mary Wroth (1587–1651 or 1653) *Thomas Wyatt (poet), Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542, E) *Elinor Wylie (1885–1928, US) *Edward Alexander Wyon (1842–1872, E)

X–Y

*Makhosazana Xaba (born 1957, SA) *Mitsuye Yamada (born 1923, US) *Leo Yankevich (1961–2018, US) *Morgan Yasbincek (born 1964, A) *J. Michael Yates (1938–2021, US/C) *W. B. Yeats (1865–1939, Ir) *Jean Yoon (born 1962, C) *Marly Youmans (born 1953, US) *Monica Youn (born 1971, US) *Andrew Young (poet, born 1885), Andrew Young (1885–1971, S) *Augustus Young (born 1943, Ir) *d'bi Young (born 1977, J/C) *Douglas Young (classicist), Douglas Young (1913–1973, S) *Edward Young (1683–1765, E) *Ellen Young (poet), Ellen Young (c. 1810–1872, A) *Ian Young (writer), Ian Young (born 1945, C) *Kevin Young (poet), Kevin Young (born 1970, US) *Marguerite Young (1908–1995, US)

Z

*Alessio Zanelli (born 1963, It) *Matthew Zapruder (born 1967, US) *Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982, US) *Robert Zend (1929–1985, C) *Benjamin Zephaniah (1958–2023, E) *Komninos Zervos (born 1950, A) *David Zieroth (born 1946, C) *Rachel Zolf (born 1968, C) *Daniel Zomparelli (living, C) *Carolyn Zonailo (born 1947, C) *Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978, US) *Fay Zwicky (1933–2017, A) *Jan Zwicky (born 1955, C)

Lists of English language poets by nationality

*List of Australian poets *List of Canadian poets *List of Irish poets *List of Indian poets#Indian poets writing in English, List of English poets from India *List of Nigerian poets *List of South African poets *List of poets from the United States

References

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