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Alan Jenkins

Alan Jenkins

Alan Jenkins was born in Surrey in 1955 and has lived for most of his life in London.  He studied at the... read more

  • Shark Song

  • Southern Rail (The Four Studen...

  • The Love of Unknown Women

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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886 –1962), grew up in East... more

Joseph Coelho

Joseph Coelho has published three books of poetry, Werewolf... more

Richard Harrison

Canadian poet Richard Harrison is a shrewd writer who is as... more

Sarah Howe

Sarah Howe was born in Hong Kong in 1983 to an English... more

Valerie Gillies

Valerie Gillies

Valerie Gillies’ poems are of a startling clarity. The... more

Dennis Lee

Dennis Lee (b. 1939) has written more than thirty books of... more

Jackie Kay - Children's Poems

Jackie Kay (b. 1961) is an award-winning writer of fiction... more

John Mole Children's Poems

John Mole is one of our foremost children’s poets. He grew... more

Alasdair Gray

Writing in his 1990s study of Alasdair Gray’s novels,... more

Phyllis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley was the first US slave to publish a book... more

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809, the son of poverty-... more

Toni Stuart

Toni Stuart was born in Cape Town in 1983, and grew up in... more

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Today's poets read work from the distant past
  • Wendy Cope

    Flowers
    Wendy Cope

  • Kathleen Raine

    Daisies of Flor...
    Kathleen Raine

  • Julia Bird

    The Preservatio...
    Julia Bird

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