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David Wheatley
b. 1970Dawn Garisch
b. 1958Dawn Garisch has had five novels, a collection of poetry Difficult Gifts and a memoir/popular science work Eloquent Body published. Both short stories and poetry have been published in anthologies, journals and magazines.
Denis Glover
b. 1912 d. 1980Denis Glover emerged as a poet in New Zealand in the 1930s, one of the new artistic generation of modernists and nationalists.
Denise Riley
b. 1948Denise Riley (b. 1948) is active across the full range of poetic life - poet, essayist, teacher, editor, researcher - and beyond, with her interests extending to politics, history, philosophy, feminist theory and visual art.
Dennis Lee
b. 1939Dennis Lee (b. 1939) has written more than thirty books of poetry for adults and children and been awarded many prizes for his writing.
Deryn Rees-Jones
b. 1968Deryn Rees-Jones was named as one of the Next Generation Poets following her spirited debut The Memory Tray, which was also shortlisted for a 1994 Forward Prize.
Diana Bridge
b. 1942Diana Bridge introduces her second collection of poems, The Girls on the Wall (1999), with a quote from M.M. Bakhtin who remarked that "outsidedness is a most powerful factor in understanding [...
Dick Davis
b. 1945Dick Davis, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has been hailed by the TLS as 'our finest translator of Persian poetry', and retired in 2012 from the Ohio State University where he was Professor of Persian and Chair of the Departme
Don Paterson
b. 1963Don Paterson (b. 1963) is an accomplished jazz musician as well as a poet which might partially account for the complex harmonies of his work. Born in Dundee, he left school to pursue a career in music, moving to London in 1984.
Dorothea Smartt
b. 1963Dorothea Smartt is a stunning performance artist and poet.
Douglas Dunn
b. 1942Douglas Dunn (b.
Dylan Thomas
b. 1914 d. 1953Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) remains one of the legendary figures in 20th Century poetry, both for the impact of his visionary, musical verse, and for the notoriety of his private life.
E A Markham
b. 1939 d. 2008E A Markham (1939-2008) had a career that embraced the range of literary life, and more.
E. E. Cummings
b. 1894 d. 1962E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was born and brought up in Cambridge Massachusetts, and is remembered above all for his startling innovations in syntax and typography.
E. Nesbit
b. 1858 d. 1924Edith Nesbit was a prolific author of over forty books for children, including the enduringly popular The Railway Children.
Edgar Allan Poe
b. 1809 d. 1849Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809, the son of poverty-stricken actors.
Edgell Rickword
b. 1898 d. 1982Edgell Rickword (1898-1982) is best known as the influential editor of journals such as Calendar of Modern Letters and The Left Review and was a key figure in establishing radical criticism in the wake of the First World War.
Edith Sitwell
b. 1887 d. 1964Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was born into an aristocratic family and, along with her brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, had a significant impact on the artistic life of the 20s.
Edmund Blunden
b. 1896 d. 1974Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) is a poet whose work and life were moulded by his experience of the First World War. Blunden was born in London but grew up in Kent, a childhood which laid the foundation for his deep love of the English countryside.
Edmund Spenser
b. 1553 d. 1599Edmund Spenser is often mentioned alongside Shakespeare, Marlowe and Donne as one of the greatest poets of the Elizabethan period.
Edward Baugh
b. 1936Edward Baugh is probably best known as a literary critic whose distinguished academic career has been devoted to West Indian literature, especially the study of Anglophone Caribbean poetry, and in particular the work of the towering Nobel Laureate
Edward Thomas
b. 1878 d. 1917Edwin Brock
b. 1927 d. 1997Edwin Brock (1927-1997) wrote two of the best-known poems of the last century, 'Five Ways to Kill a Man' and 'Song of the Battery Hen', but his work deserves wider recognition beyond these anthology favourites.
Edwin Morgan
b. 1920 d. 2010Edwin Morgan (1920 - 2010) was born and educated in Glasgow, where he returned to lecture in English Literature at Glasgow University after a period in the army.
Elaine Feinstein
b. 1930 d. 2019Elaine Feinstein (b.1930) hailed from Bootle, Lancashire. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and then worked as an editor, a university lecturer and a journalist. From 1976 she lived on her writing.