Peter Gizzi was born in Alma, Michigan. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including: Now It’s Dark (2020); Archeophonics (2016), a finalist...

Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican writer and academic who works as a senior lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester....

Anthony Joseph was born in Trinidad. He is a poet, novelist, academic and musician. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths University and...

Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright and author whose poetry collections include: Ska Tissue (Mother Foucault Press, 2011), The Woman Who Was Not There...

Bhanu Kapil was born in England to Indian parents, and she grew up in a South Asian, working-class community in London. She lives in the...

Roger Robinson is a writer and performer who lives in Northampton. His poetry pamphlet Suckle (flipped eye, 2009) won the People’s Book Prize and the Oxford Brookes...

Hannah Sullivan’s debut collection Three Poems (Faber & Faber, 2018) won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted...

Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong is the author of the best-selling debut, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Cape Poetry), awarded the T. S. Eliot...

Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle in 1975. He is the author of five poetry collections: The Brink (2003); Little Gods (2006); The Havocs (2012);...

Sarah Howe was born in Hong Kong in 1983 to an English father and Chinese mother, and moved to England as a child. From 2010-2015...

David Harsent has published numerous collections of poetry, including Legion (Faber & Faber, 2005), which won the Forward Prize; and Night (2011), a Poetry Book...

Sinéad Morrissey was born in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. She read English and German at Trinity College, Dublin, where she completed her PhD...

Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry. Balladz...

John Burnside was an internationally celebrated poet, novelist, memoirist, writer of short stories and academic works, and the recipient of many major awards, including the...

Born in St Lucia, in the West Indies, in 1930, Derek Walcott studied at the University College of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. His...

Philip Gross was born in Cornwall, the son of an Estonian wartime refugee. He has lived in Plymouth, Bristol and South Wales, where he was...

Jen Hadfield was born in Cheshire and lives in Shetland. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003 and was given a Scottish Arts Council...

Sean O’Brien is a poet, critic, novelist and short-fiction writer. Born in London in 1952, he grew up in Hull and now lives in Newcastle....

Seamus Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 in County Derry, Northern Ireland. His first collection, Death of a Naturalist (Faber & Faber), was published...

Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and...

George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948 and came to England as a refugee in 1956. He was brought up in London and studied...

Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry, aphorism, criticism and poetic theory. His poetry has won...

Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Her first collection of poetry, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), received a...

Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. Her awards and honours include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the...

Michael Longley, born in Belfast on 27 July 1939, was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and read classics at Trinity College Dublin. He...

Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on the London Magazine from 1961 to 1970, and has since earned his...

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber and was...

Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry, aphorism, criticism and poetic theory. His poetry has won...

Les Murray (1938-2019) grew up on a dairy farm at Bunyah on the north coast of New South Wales. He studied at Sydney University and...

Mary Doty is the author of more than ten volumes of poetry, including School of the Arts, Source and My Alexandria, which won the T. S. Eliot...

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in...

Ciaran Carson was born in 1948 in Belfast, where he lived. He worked in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from 1975 to 1998, with...