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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Aa–Al

* Jonathan Aaron (born 1941, US) * Chris Abani (born 1966, Ni/US) * Henry Abbey (1842–1911, US) * Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958, US) *

J. H. M. Abbott John Henry Macartney Abbott (1874 – 1953) was an Australian novelist and poet who was born in Haydonton, Murrurundi, New South Wales in 1874. Early life He was the eldest son of son of (Sir) Joseph Palmer Abbott and his first wife Matilda ...

(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, w ...

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

Mark Abley Mark Abley (born 13 May 1955) is a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and non-fiction writer. Both his poetry and several non-fiction books express his interest in endangered languages. He has also published numerous magazine articles. He publishe ...

(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 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 Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales, as the young ...

(1923–2014, W) *

Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe (; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as the dominant figure of modern African literature. His first novel and '' magnum opus'', ''Things Fall Apart'' (1958), occupies ...

(1930–2013, Ni/US) *

Catherine Obianuju Acholonu Catherine Obianuju Acholonu (26 October 1951 – 18 March 2014) was a Nigerian author, researcher and political activist. She served as a Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Arts and Culture, and was a founder-member ...

(1951–2014, Ni) *

Kathy Acker Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 isputed– November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trau ...

(1947–1997, US) *

Diane Ackerman Diane Ackerman (born October 7, 1948) is an American poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her wide-ranging curiosity and poetic explorations of the natural world. Education and career Ackerman received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Pen ...

(born 1948, US) * Duane Ackerson (born 1942, US) * Milton Acorn (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 "fiend ...

(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 wa ...

(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 Francisc ...

(1909–1993, S/US) * Jean Adam (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 and screenwriter, best known for ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Originally a 1978 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series), BBC radio comedy, ''The H ...

(1952–2001, E) *

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of t ...

(1704–1740, US) * Léonie Adams (1899–1988, US) *

Ryan Adams David Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, artist, and poet. He has released 23 albums, as well as three studio albums as a former member of alt-country band Whiskeytown. In 2000, Adams lef ...

(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''. Adamson's first published work was ''Primitive'', a volume of poetry, in 1991. She foll ...

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

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

(born 1934, NZ/E) *

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

(1672–1719, E) *

Kim Addonizio Kim Addonizio (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 attended ...

(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 Toyin Adewale-Gabriel (born 1969) is a Nigerian writer. She writes poetry and has worked as a literary critic for ''The Guardian'', ''Post Express'' and ''The Daily Times''. Adewale-Gabriel writes in both English and in German. Biography Born ...

(born 1969, Ni) * Opal Palmer Adisa (born 1954, J) * Tatamkhulu Afrika (1920–2002, SA) *

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

(born 1949, Gu) * Patience Agbabi (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 ...

born 1978, US) *

Kelli Russell Agodon Kelli Russell Agodon (born in Seattle) is an American poet, writer, and editor. She is the cofounder of ''Two Sylvias Press'' and she serves on the poetry faculty at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran Uni ...

(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" lis ...

(1938–1994, E) * Ai (born 1947, US) *

Ama Ata Aidoo Ama Ata Aidoo, ''née'' Christina Ama Aidoo (born 23 March 1942) is a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic. She was the Minister of Education under the Jerry Rawlings administration. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation t ...

(born 1940, 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 ...

(1889–1973, US) * Douglas Ainslie (1865–1948, S) * Thomas Aird (1802–1876, S) * Adam Aitken (born 1960, A) *

Neil Aitken Neil Aitken (born 1974 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet, editor, and translator. He founded ''Boxcar Poetry Review.'' His first book, ''The Lost Country of Sight'', won the 2007 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Biography Early ...

(born 1974, C) * Funso Aiyejina (born 1949, Ni) * Tolu Ajayi (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 ...

(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. Biography Salman Akhtar was bo ...

(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, political writer and memoirist. The poet's Gaelic name means "Alasdair, so ...

(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 doct ...

(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 a ...

(1799–1888, US) * Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888, US) *

Kaye Aldenhoven Kaye Aldenhoven is an Australian poet and teacher. Biography In 1971, Kaye Aldenhoven moved from South Australia to Umbakumba on Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory. She then lived and taught at Yuendumu, Amoonguna, Alice Springs, Darwin, Jabi ...

(living, A) * Richard Aldington (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 (c. 1567 in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire12 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 I ...

(c. 1567–1640, S) *

Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane- Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from se ...

(born 1966, US) * Felipe Alfau (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 (1949–2001, In/US) * James Alexander Allan (1889–1956, A) * Rob Allan (born 1945, NZ) * Sandra Alland (living, C/S) * Donna Allard (living, C) * William Allegrezza (born 1974, US) *

Dick Allen Richard Anthony Allen (March 8, 1942 – December 7, 2020) was an American professional baseball player. During his fifteen-year-long Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played as a first baseman, third baseman, and outfielder, most notably ...

(1939–2017, US) *

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

(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 Tra ...

(1832–1911, US) * Leslie Holdsworth Allen (1879–1964, A) *

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

(born 1951, C) * Richard James Allen (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, she immigrated to Quebec when she was twelve. In 1966 she was the victim of a car accident wh ...

(1951–2005, C) * Alta (Alta Gerrey, born 1942, 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 (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 (born 2 February 1954) is a Pakistani-British poet and writer. She has won several well-known prizes for her verse. Life and education Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore, Pakistan, to a Pakistani father and a British mother. Her father ...

(born 1954, E)

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* George Amabile (born 1936, C) * Abdulkareem Baba Aminu (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 a ...

(1922–1995, E) * A. R. Ammons (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 (1883–1958, A) *

Freddie Anderson Freddie Anderson (11 September 1922 – 10 December 2001) was an Irish writer, playwright, author, poet and socialist, born in Ballybay, County Monaghan, Ireland, who became an influential figure in left wing culture and folk music scene in Glasg ...

(1922–2001, Ir/S) * J. Redwood Anderson (1883–1964, E) * Patrick Anderson (1915–1979, E/C) * Rod Anderson (born 1935, C) * Victor Henry Anderson (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 (born 1948, US) * Kevin Andrews (1924–1989, E/Gr) * Ron Androla (born 1954, US) * Ralph Angel (born 1951, US) * Maya Angelou (1928–2014, US) * James Stout Angus (1830–1923, S) * Marion Angus (1865–1946, S) * J. K. Annand (1908–1993, S) * David Antin (1932–2016, US) * Antler (born 1946, US) * Susanne Antonetta (born 1956, US) *

Brother Antoninus William "Bill" Everson, also known as Brother Antoninus (September 10, 1912 – June 3, 1994), was an American poet, literary critic, teacher and small press printer. He was a member of the San Francisco Renaissance. Beginnings Everson was bor ...

(1912–1994, US) * 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 p ...

(1932–2005, A) * Alexander Arbuthnot (1538–1583, S) * Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878–1954, US) * Rae Armantrout (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 (1850–1933, E) * Richard Armour (1906–1989, US) *

Jeannette Armstrong Jeannette Christine Armstrong (born 1948 in Okanagan) 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 Syilx and Eng ...

(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 Armstrong"

(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 (1967–2009, US) *

Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the celebrated headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, lit ...

(1822–1888, E) *

Joanne Arnott Joanne Arnott (born 16 December 1960 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian writer. She has conducted writing workshops across much of Canada and in Australia, including a series at the Carnegie Centre, sponsored by SFU, and has written for the Lite ...

(born 1960, C) * K. O. Arvidson (1938–2011, NZ) * M. K. Asante (born 1982, US) * John Ashbery (1927–2017, US) * Cliff Ashby (1919–2012, E) * Joseph Ashby-Sterry (1836 or 1838–1917, E) *

Thomas Ashe Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

(1836–1889, E) *

Renée Ashley Renée Ashley is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and educator. Presently on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University and an editor of ''The Literary Review'', Ashley is the author of five collections of poetry, two chapbooks and a ...

(living, US) *

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

(1521–1546, E) * Timoshenko Aslanides (born 1943, A) * Herbert Asquith (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 (1873–1947, A) * Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872, E) * Cassandra Atherton (living, A) * Rupert Atkinson (1881–1961, A) * Tiffany Atkinson (born 1972, W) * Margaret Atwood (born 1939, C) * Dorothy Auchterlonie (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 was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in ...

(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 Alla ...

(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. Lif ...

(1897–1965, US) *

Paul Auster Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American writer and film director. His notable works include '' The New York Trilogy'' (1987), '' Moon Palace'' (1989), '' The Music of Chance'' (1990), '' The Book of Illusions'' (2002), ''The ...

(born 1947, US) * Alfred Austin (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 ...

(living, C) *

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'', Shredder in ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'', Judge Michael Conover on '' L ...

(born 1948, US) *

Tusiata Avia Donna Tusiata Avia (born 1966) is a New Zealand poet and children's author. Background Avia was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. Her father is Samoan and her mother is Palagi (New Zealand European). Avia graduated from the Univ ...

(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 and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict A ...

(1935–2013, Gh) * Ayo Ayoola-Amale (born 1970, Ni) * Pam Ayres (born 1947, E) * Sir Robert Aytoun (1570–1638, S/E) * William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865, S) * Nnorom Azuonye (born 1967, Ni) * Jody Azzouni (born 1954, US)

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* Ken Babstock (born 1970, C) *

Peter Babyon Peter Babyon, or Babyo, or Babion, (floruit, fl. 1317 – 1366), was an English poet and Anglicanism#Anglican divines, divine in the reign of Edward II of England, Edward II, He was educated from his earliest youth in the literae humaniores by ...

(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 ''The Borderland Series, Bordertown'' and '' ...

(group pseudonym, 1980s, US) * Joseph M. Bachelor (Joseph Morris, 1889–1947, US) *

Elizabeth Bachinsky Elizabeth Bachinsky (born May 10, 1976) is a Canadian poet. She has published four collections since 2005: ''Curio'', ''Home of Sudden Service'', ''God of Missed Connections'', and ''The Hottest Summer in Recorded History''. Her second book, ''Ho ...

(born 1976, C) *

Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon (born 21 February 1969) is a South African poet and academic. She is the 2005 recipient of the Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry. She lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, and Pennsylvania, US, and serves as ...

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

Russell Banks Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. As a novelist, Banks is best known for his "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". His stories usua ...

(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, and Robert Anderson. Her work was popular in her lifetime ...

(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 (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 " woman of letters" who published in mu ...

(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 (c. 1320–1395, S) *

Alexander Barclay Dr Alexander Barclay (c. 1476 – 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 matter of dispute, but William Bulleyn, who w ...

(1476–1552, S) * Leland Bardwell (1922–2016, Ir) *

Serie Barford Serie Barford is a performance poet from Auckland, Aotearoa (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 a ...

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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, who was famous for his comedic poetry and parodies of popular songs, but he also produced some very serious thought-provoking written works. Work Barker was born in Manc ...

(born 1947, E) *

Coleman Barks Coleman Barks (born April 23, 1937) is an American poet, and former literature faculty 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 English ...

(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, and diplomat, and politician. In politics, he supported the French Revolution and was an ardent Jeffersonian republican. He worked as an agent for American speculator Wil ...

(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 signific ...

(1750–1825, S/SA) *

Mary Barnard Mary Ethel Barnard (December 6, 1909 – August 25, 2001) was an American poet, biographer and Greek-to-English translator. She is known for her elegant rendering of the works of Sappho, a translation which has never gone out of print. ''Paideu ...

(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 liter ...

(1892–1982, US) * Stuart Barnes (born 1977, A) * William Barnes (1801–1886, E) * Annie Wall Barnett (1859-1942, US) * Catherine Barnett (born 1960, US) *

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

(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 Miriam Barr is a New Zealand page and performance poet. She is one of the original members of The Literatti, an Auckland-based performance poetry group started in 2006. Barr became creative director for the group in 2007. Her poetry has appeare ...

(born 1982, NZ) * Laird Barron (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 with her father in 1876. Baruch wrote poetry in her teens and wa ...

(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 co-author of '' The Courage to Heal''. Life Bass grew up in Pleasantville, New Jersey, where her parents owned a liquor store. Her family later moved to Ventnor City, New Jersey. She atte ...

(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. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the Bosto ...

(1850–1918, US) * David Bates (1809–1870, US) * H. E. Bates (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. Bat ...

(1859–1929, US) * Joseph Bathanti (born 1953, US) * Dawn-Michelle Baude (born 1959, US) * Bill Bauer (1932–2010, US/C) * Edward Baugh (born 1936, J) * Charles Baxter (born 1947, US) * James K. Baxter (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 Co ...

(1901–1971, NZ) * Anne Beale (1816–1900, E/W) * Doug Beardsley (born 1941, C) * James Beattie (1735–1803, S) *

Jan Beatty Jan Beatty is an American poet. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and the Creative Achievement Award in Literature. Life Born in 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she received her Bac ...

(born 1952, US) *

Derek Beaulieu Derek Alexander Beaulieu (born December 7, 1973 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian poet, publisher and anthologist. Beaulieu studied contemporary Canadian poetics at the University of Calgary and Creative Writing at Roehampton University. His wor ...

(born 1973, C) * Francis Beaumont (1586–1616, E) * Bruce Beaver (1928–2004, A) * Samuel Beckett (1906–1989, Ir) * Joshua Beckman (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 o ...

(1803–1849, E/G) * Ruth Bedford (1882–1963, A) * Jack Bedson (born 1950, A) * Patricia Beer (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) ( ; ga, Breandán Ó Beacháin; 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican activist who wrote in both English an ...

(1923–1964, Ir) * Aphra Behn (1640–1689, E) * Sinclair Beiles (1930–2000, SA) * Gerard Beirne (born 1962, Ir/C) * Henry Beissel (born 1929, G/C) * Billy-Ray Belcourt (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 (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. Biography Bell was raised in Center Moriches, Long Island. He served in the U.S. Army from 196 ...

(1937–2020, US) * Lisa Bellear (1961–2006, A) * Lesley Belleau (living, C) *

Hilaire Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (, ; 27 July 187016 July 1953) was a Franco-English writer and historian of the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. H ...

(1870–1953, E) * John Bemrose (living, C) * Gwen Benaway (born 1987, C) *

Hester A. Benedict Hester A. Benedict (, Baldwin; after first marriage, Benedict; after second marriage, Dickinson; October 2, 1838 – December 28, 1921) was an American poet and writer. She had a literary reputation in the East before her removal to California whe ...

(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 is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, '' John Brown's Body'' (1928), for which he receiv ...

(1898–1943, US) * William Rose Benét (1886–1950, US) * Elizabeth Benger (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, writer, and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the practice of p ...

(1919–2006, J) *

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

(died 2007, C) * A. C. Benson (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 William Craig Berkson (August 30, 1939 – June 16, 2016) was an American poet, critic, and teacher who was active in the art and literary worlds from his early twenties on. Early life and education Born in New York City on August 30, 1939, Bil ...

(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) Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary sc ...

(born 1950, US) * Robert Berold (born 1948, SA) * Anselm Berrigan (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 active protest against the Vietnam War earned him both scorn and admi ...

(1921–2016, US) * Ted Berrigan (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 of ...

(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 (1776–1852, E) * Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919, E) * Ursula Bethell (1874–1945, NZ) * John Betjeman (1906–1984, E) * Craven Langstroth Betts (1853–1941, C) *

Elizabeth Beverley Elizabeth Beverley (1792 – 19 November 1832, in Lambeth) It is not known who R. Beverley was, but his wife wrote a poem on "my Child's being unfortunately burnt to death," implying that grief at this hastened her husband's death as well.''The F ...

(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. She ...

(born 1956, A) * Helen Bevington (1906–2001, US) *

L. S. Bevington Louisa Sarah Bevington (14 May 1845 – 28 November 1895) was an English Anarchism, 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, S ...

(1845–1895, E) * Thomas Bibby (1799–1863, Ir) * Ruth Bidgood (born 1922, 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, carried out his first ha ...

(1825–1884, E) * Margaret Bingham (1740–1814, E) * Laurence Binyon (1869–1943, E) * Hera Lindsay Bird (born 1987, NZ) * Earle Birney (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 ( ...

(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) * Samuel Bishop (1731–1795, E) * Bill Bissett (born 1939, C) * Sherwin Bitsui (born 1974, US) * David MacLeod Black (born 1941, S) *

Sophie Cabot Black Sophie Cabot Black (born 1958) is an American prize-winning poet who has taught creative writing at Columbia University. Early life Cabot was born in New York, New York and raised on a small farm in Wilton, Connecticut. Pg. 34 Her father is Davi ...

(born 1958, US) * Paul Blackburn (1926–1971, US) * Thomas Blacklock (1721–1791, S) * Leigh Blackmore (born 1959, A) *

R. P. Blackmur Richard Palmer Blackmur (January 21, 1904 – February 2, 1965) was an American literary critic and poet. Life Blackmur was born and grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. He attended Cambridge High and Latin School, but was expelled in 1918. A ...

(1904–1965, US) * Peter Bladen (1922–2001, A) * Isa Blagden (1816 or 1817–1873, It) *

Max Blagg Max Blagg is a United Kingdom, 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). Lif ...

(born 1948, E/US) * Mark Blagrave (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 is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. ...

(1757–1827, E) * Susanna Blamire (1747–1794, E) * Paddy Blanchfield (1911–1980, NZ) *

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

(born 1968, US) * Don Blanding (1894–1957, US) *

Robin Blaser Robin Francis Blaser (May 18, 1925 – May 7, 2009) was an author and poet in both the United States and Canada. Personal background Born in Denver, Colorado, Blaser grew up in Idaho, and came to Berkeley, California, in 1944. There he met Jack ...

(1925–2009, C) * Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752–1783, US) * Adrian Blevins (born 1964, US) * John Blight (1913–1995, A) * Mathilde Blind (1841–1896, E) * Laurie Block (1949–2018, C) * E. D. Blodgett (1935–2018, C) *

Benjamin Paul Blood Benjamin Paul Blood (November 21, 1832 – January 15, 1919) was an American philosopher, mystic and poet. His idiosyncratic work explored his development of his pluralist philosophy, culminating in the posthumously published book ''Pluriverse' ...

(1832–1919, US) * Valerie Bloom (born 1956, J/E) * 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 a ...

(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 Pamphlet, pamphlets. Five editions were published, with a print run ...

(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 ' ...

(born 1926, US) * Ali Blythe (living, C) *

Barcroft Boake Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake (26 March 1866 – 2 May 1892) was an Australian poet. Background Born in Sydney, Boake worked as a surveyor and a boundary rider, but is best remembered for his poetry, a volume of which was published five years ...

(1866–1892, A) * Robert Boates (born 1954, C) *

Merlinda Bobis Merlinda Bobis (born 25 November 1959) is a contemporary Filipina-Australian writer and academic. Biography Born in Legazpi City, in the Philippines province of Albay, Merlinda Bobis attended Bicol University High School then completed her B.A. ...

(born 1959, A) *

Louise Bogan Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) 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, ...

(1897–1970, US) * Michelle Boisseau (1955–2017, US) *

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

(born 1966, C) * Osbern Bokenam (c. 1393 – c. 1464, E) * George Henry Boker (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 of w ...

(1944–2020, Ir) * Alan Bold (1943–1998, S) * Dermot Bolger (born 1959, Ir) * Stephanie Bolster (born 1969, C) * Edmund Bolton (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 ...

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

(1808–1889, S) * Elizabeth Bonhôte (1744–1818, E) * Sean Bonney (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 an Australian editor, journalist, propagandist, poet, and fiction writer. Wrote ‘A Fool’s Talk’ (1915) Biography Born in Liverpool, England, 20 May 1865, Boote began working as an apprentice to a pri ...

(1865–1949, A) * Ivan Bootham (1939–2016, NZ) * Pat Boran (born 1963, Ir) *

Jenny Bornholdt Jennifer Mary Bornholdt (born 1 November 1960) is a New Zealand poet and anthologist. Biography Born in Lower Hutt, Bornholdt received a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a Diploma in Journalism. She studied poetry with Bill Manhire ...

(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 th ...

(born 1952, C) *

Keith Bosley Keith Anthony Bosley (16 September 1937 – 24 June 2018) was a British poet and translator. Bosley was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, and grew up in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He was educated at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlo ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

(1874–1948, E) * David Bottoms (born 1949, US) * Jenny Boult (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, Ches ...

(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 (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. He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby town o ...

(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. Early life Bowering was born i ...

(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 (born 1964, C) * Alex Boyd (born 1969, C) * Louise Esther Vickroy Boyd (1827–1909, US) * Mark Alexander Boyd (1563–1601, S) *

Kay Boyle Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and O. Henry Award winner. Early years The granddaughter of a publisher, Boyle was ...

(1902–1992, US) * Peter Boyle (born 1951, A) *

Samuel Boyse Samuel Boyse (1702/3? – May 1749) was an Irish poet and writer who worked for Sir Robert Walpole and whose religious verses in particular were prized and reprinted in his time. Life Born in Dublin, Boyse was the son of Joseph Boyse, a Pres ...

(1702/1703–1749, Ir/E) * Virginia Frazer Boyle (1863-1938, US)

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Francis Brabazon Francis Brabazon (24 January 1907 – 24 June 1984) was an Australian Poetry, poet and a member of Meher Baba's Mandali (Meher Baba), mandali. Brabazon was born in London, but moved to Australia with his family when he was still a boy. At the ...

(1907–1984, A) * Thomas Bracken (1843–1898, NZ) * Alison Brackenbury (born 1953, E) * Anna Braden (1858-1939, US) *

James Bradley James Bradley (1692–1762) 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 the nutation of th ...

(born 1967, A) *

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

(c. 1612–1672, US) *

Robert Bradstreet Robert Bradstreet (1766–1836) was an English poet. He was the son of Robert Bradstreet, and was born at Higham, Babergh, Higham, Suffolk, in 1766, and educated under the care of the Rev. T. Foster, rector of Halesworth in Suffolk. On 4 June 178 ...

(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 (1878–1957, A) *

James Bramston James Bramston (c. 1694–1743) was an English poet who specialised in satire and parody. He was also a pluralist cleric of the Church of England. Family The son of Col. Francis Bramston, a guards officer, he was born at Skreens, near Chelmsf ...

(c. 1694–1743, E) * Dionne Brand (born 1953, C) *

Di Brandt Di Brandt (born 31 January 1952) (née Janzen) 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 farmin ...

(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 im ...

(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) ''and United States of Banana'' (2011). Braschi writes cross-genr ...

(born 1953, US) * Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020, B) * Richard Brautigan (1935–1984, US) * John Jefferson Bray (1912–1995, A) *

Diana Brebner (Jennivien) Diana Brebner (May 20, 1956 – April 29, 2001) was a Canadian poet. She was a recipient of the Archibald Lampman Award. Life Diana Brebner was the eldest daughter of Dutch immigrants and grew up in a suburb of Montreal, Quebec. She ...

(1956–2001, C) * Jean "Binta" Breeze (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 (; born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer, poet and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government. He is informally considered as the national poet lau ...

(born 1939, SA/F) * Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990, US) * Michael Brennan (born 1973, A) * Jane Brereton (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 (1542–1626, E) * Brian Brett (born 1950, C) *

Lily Brett Lily Brett (born Lilijahne Brajtsztajn 5 September 1946, Feldafing displaced persons camp, Bavaria, Germany) is an Australian novelist, essayist and poet. She lived in North Carlton and then Elwood/Caulfield (suburbs of Melbourne) from 1948 to ...

(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 U ...

(1941–2006, US) * Elizabeth Brewster (1922–2012, C) *

Martha Wadsworth Brewster Martha Wadsworth Brewster (April 1, 1710 – ) was an 18th-century American poet and writer. She is one of only four colonial women who published volumes of their verse before the American Revolution and was the first American-born woman to pu ...

(1710 – c. 1757, US) *

(born 1939, SA) * Diana Bridge (born 1942, NZ) *

Robert Bridges Robert Seymour Bridges (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was an English 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 (1959–2000, US) *

Robert Bringhurst Robert Bringhurst Appointments to the Order of Canada (2013). (born 16 October 1946) is a Canadian poet, typographer and author. He has translated substantial works from Haida and Navajo and from classical Greek and Arabic. He wrote ''The Eleme ...

(born 1946, C) * Geoffrey Brock (born 1964, US) * Eve Brodlique (1867-1949, UK/C/US) * Alexander Brome (1620–1666, E) *

David Bromige David Mansfield Bromige (October 22, 1933 – June 3, 2009) was a Canadians, 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 t ...

(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 Co ...

(1918–1999, US) *

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

(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, Emily, and Anne. Brontë was rigorously tutored at ...

(1817–1848, E) *

Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted i ...

(1816–1855, E) * Emily Brontë (1818–1848, E) * Rupert Brooke (1887–1915, E) * David Brooks (born 1953, A) * Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000, US) * Alice Williams Brotherton (1848-1930, US) * Audrey Alexandra Brown (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 Orcadian character. He is widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century. Biography Early life and caree ...

(1921–1996, S) * James Brown (J. B. Selkirk, 1832–1904, S) * Jericho Brown (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 a ...

(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 caree ...

(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- Victorian scholar, schoolmaster, poet, and theologian from the Isle of Man. Having achieved a double first at Christ Church, Oxford, and electi ...

(1830–1897, IoM) * Wayne Brown (1944–2009, T) * Frances Browne (1816–1879, Ir) * Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705–1760, E) * Moses Browne (1704–1787, E) * Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682, E) * William Browne (1588–1643, E) * Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861, E/It) * Robert Browning (1812–1889, E/It) *

Charles Tory Bruce Charles Tory Bruce (May 11, 1906 - December 19, 1971) was a Canadian poet, journalist and fiction writer.

(1906–1971, C) *

Mary Grant Bruce Mary Grant Bruce (24 May 1878 – 2 July 1958), also known as Minnie Bruce, 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 Kingdo ...

(1878–1958, A) * Julie Bruck (living, C) * Dennis Brutus (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 poetry ...

(1794–1878, US) * Colette Bryce (born 1970, NI/E) *

Bryher Bryher ( kw, Breyer "place of hills") is one of the smallest inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly, with a population of 84 in 2011, spread across . History The name of the island is recorded as ''Brayer'' in 1336 and ''Brear'' in 1500. Ge ...

(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 t ...

(1716–1768, S) *

George Buchanan George Buchanan ( gd, Seòras Bochanan; 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." ...

(1506–1582, S) * Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901, S) * Vincent Buckley (1925–1988, A) *

Charles Buckmaster Charles Buckmaster (1950–1972) 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 ...

(1950–1972, A) * David Budbill (1940–2016, US) * Robert Budde (born 1966, C) * Andrea Hollander Budy (born 1947, US) * Suzanne Buffam (living, C) *

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

(1920–1994, US) *

April Bulmer April Bulmer (born 1963) is a Canadian poet whose poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Arc, the Malahat Review, Quills, and Ascent Aspirations.

(born 1963, C) * Rhoda Bulter (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 traditio ...

(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 dystopian satire ''A Clockwork ...

(1917–1993, E) * Haldane Burgess (1862–1927, S) * Andrew Burke (born 1944, A) *

Murdoch Burnett Murdoch Maclean Burnett (9 October 1953 – 20 September 2015) was a Canadian poet, performance artist, editor, and community activist. Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Murdoch Burnett was the seventh of eleven children born to Pat and Jim ...

(1953–2015, C) * Joanne Burns (born 1945, A) *

Robert Burns Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who hav ...

(1759–1796, S) * Stanley Burnshaw (1906–2005, US) * John Burnside (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, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular cultur ...

(1914–1997, US) * Mick Burrs (1940–2021, C) * Duncan Bush (1946–2017, W/E) * Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (1869–1944, US) * Aaron Bushkowsky (born 1957, C) * Guy Butler (1918–2001, SA) * Samuel Butler (1612–1680, E) *

Ray Buttigieg Ray Buttigieg (born May 1, 1955) is a poet and musician. He attended Qala primary school, then the Lyceum in Victoria, Gozo. He then moved to the United States and continued his studies in New York, where he settled permanently. By the age of 2 ...

(born 1955, M) * Anthony Butts (born 1969, US) * A. S. Byatt (born 1936, E) *

Kathryn Stripling Byer Kathryn Stripling Byer (November 25, 1944 – June 5, 2017), also called Kay Byer, was an American poet and teacher. She was named by Governor Mike Easley as the fifth North Carolina Poet Laureate from 2005 to 2009. She was the first woman to ho ...

(1944–2017, US) *

Witter Bynner Harold Witter Bynner (August 10, 1881 – June 1, 1968), also known by the pen name Emanuel Morgan, was an American poet and translator. He was known for his long residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and association with other literary figures the ...

(Emanuel Morgan, 1881–1968, US) *

Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the ...

(1788–1824, E/It)

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* Richard Caddel (1949–2003, E) * Caroline Caddy (born 1944, A) * Charmaine Cadeau (living, C) * Adrian Caesar (born 1955, A) * Stephen Cain (born 1970, C) *

Scott Cairns Scott Clifford Cairns (born 1954 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet, memoirist, librettist, and essayist. Formal education Cairns earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University (1977), a Master of Arts degree from H ...

(born 1954, US) * Alison Calder (living, C) * Angus Calder (1942–2008, S) * Alex Caldiero (born 1949, US) * Frank Oliver Call (1878–1956, C) *

Barry Callaghan Barry Morley Joseph Callaghan (born July 5, 1937) is a Canadian author, poet and anthologist. He is currently the editor-in-chief of ''Exile'' Quarterly. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is the son of late Canadian novelist and short story write ...

(born 1937, C) * Michael Feeney Callan (living, Ir) * Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884, E) * Robert Calvert (1945–1988, E) * Anne Cameron (Cam Hubert, born 1938, C) * Norman Cameron (1905–1953, S) * Jason Camlot (born 1967, C) * A. Y. Campbell (1885–1958, S) * Alistair Campbell (1925–2009, NZ) * Angus Peter Campbell (living, S) * David Campbell (1915–1979, A) * Elizabeth Campbell (born 1980, A) * Joseph Campbell (1879–1944, Ir) * Meg Campbell (1937–2007, NZ) * Paul-Henri Campbell (born 1982, US) * Roy Campbell (1901–1957, SA) * Thomas Campbell (1774–1844, S/E) * William Wilfred Campbell (1860–1918, C) *

Thomas Campion Thomas Campion (sometimes spelled Campian; 12 February 1567 – 1 March 1620) was an English composer, poet, and physician. He was born in London, educated at Cambridge, studied law in Gray's inn. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masques ...

(1567–1620, E) * Melville Henry Cane (1879–1980, US) * Mary Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973, E) *

Moya Cannon Moya Cannon (born 1956) is an Irish writer and poet with seven published collections, the most recent being ''Collected Poems'' (Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2021). Life Born in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal, Ireland, Moya Cannon studied history ...

(living, Ir) *

Edward Capern Edward Capern (21 January 18195 June 1894), was an English poet, best known for '' The Devonshire Melodist'' and ''Wayside Warbles''. He built up a strong reputation that persisted particularly in his native Devon. Early years Capern was born at ...

(1819–1894, E) *

Vahni Capildeo Vahni Anthony Ezekiel Capildeo (born Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo; born 1973) is a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer, and a member of the extended Capildeo family that has produced notable Trinidadian politicians and writers (including V. S. ...

(born 1973, T/S) *

Natalee Caple Natalee Caple (born 1970 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian author of novels and poetry who is based at the University of Calgary where she is working on a PhD. As a published author, her latest publication, ''Mackerel Sky'', has enjoyed America ...

(born 1970, C) *

Thomas Carew Thomas Carew (pronounced as "Carey") (1595 – 22 March 1640) was an English poet, among the 'Cavalier' group of Caroline poets. Biography He was the son of Sir Matthew Carew, master in chancery, and his wife Alice, daughter of Sir John Rive ...

(1595–1639, E) * Henry Carey (1693–1743, E) * Robert Carliell (died c. 1622, E) *

Bliss Carman William Bliss Carman (April 15, 1861 – June 8, 1929) was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years. In Canada, Car ...

(1861–1929, C/US) * Clyde Carr (1886–1962, NZ) * Fern G. Z. Carr (born 1956, C) *

Jim Carroll James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work '' The Basketball Diaries'', which inspired a 1995 film of ...

(1949–2009, US) *

Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are '' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequ ...

(1832–1898, E) *

Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth (August 3, 1921 – September 29, 2008) was an American poet, literary critic and anthologist. He taught at Syracuse University. Life Hayden Carruth was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut. He gra ...

(1921–2008, US) * A.J. Carruthers (living, A) * Ann Elizabeth Carson (born 1929, C) *

Anne Carson Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the Unit ...

(born 1950, C) *

Ciaran Carson Ciaran Gerard Carson (9 October 1948 – 6 October 2019) was a Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist. Biography Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family. His father, William, was a postman and his mother, Mary, w ...

(1948–2019, NI) *

Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth Carter (pen name Eliza; 16 December 1717 – 19 February 1806) was an English poet, classicist, writer, translator, linguist, and polymath. As one of the Bluestocking Circle that surrounded Elizabeth Montagu,Encyclopaedia BritannicRet ...

(1717–1806, E) * Jared Carter (born 1939, US) * William Cartwright (1611–1643, E) *

Raymond Carver Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He contributed to the revitalization of the American short story during the 1980s. Early life Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mil ...

(1938–1988, US) * Alice Cary (1820–1871, US) * Phoebe Cary (1824–1871, US) * Marietta Stanley Case (1845-1900, US) * James Casey (1824–1909, Ir) * Juanita Casey (1925–2012, E) * Neal Cassady (1926–1968, US) *

Cyrus Cassells Cyrus Cassells (born 1957) is an American poet and professor. Life and work Cassells was born in Dover, Delaware, grew up in the Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles, and began writing poetry in high school. He graduated in 1979 from Stanford Un ...

(born 1957, US) *

Ana Castillo Ana Castillo (born June 15, 1953) is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Considered one of the leading voices in Chicana experience, Castillo is known for her experiment ...

(born 1953, US) *

Lee Cataldi Lee Cataldi (born 1942) is a contemporary Australian poet and linguist. Biography Cataldi was born in Sydney during World War II when, owing to her Italian heritage, she was technically an 'enemy alien'. As a child she lived in Hobart, moving b ...

(born 1942, A) *

Nancy Cato Nancy Fotheringham Cato (11 March 19173 July 2000) was an Australian writer who published more than twenty historical novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. Cato is also known for her work campaigning on environmental and conservation issu ...

(1917–2000, A) *

Charles Causley Charles Stanley Causley CBE FRSL (24 August 1917 – 4 November 2003) was a British poet, school teacher and writer. His work is often noted for its simplicity and directness as well as its associations with folklore, legends and magic, espec ...

(1917–2003, E) * Nick Cave (born 1957, A) * George Cavendish (1494 – c. 1562, E) *

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright. Her husband, William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was Royalist co ...

(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 Catherine M. Chandler (born November 1950) is a Canadian poet and translator, born in Queens, New York City and raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, emigrating to Canada in 1971. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Spanish from ...

(born 1950, C) * Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807–1834, US) * Diana Chang (1924–2009, US) *

William Ellery Channing William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton (1786–1853), one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. Chann ...

(1818–1901, US) * Arthur Chapman (1873–1935, US) *

George Chapman George Chapman (Hitchin, Hertfordshire, – London, 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been speculated to be the Rival Poet of Shakesp ...

(1560–1634, E) *

Patrick Chapman Patrick Chapman (born 1968) is an Irish poet, writer and screenwriter. Chapman's first published work was ''Jazztown'', released in 1991 by Raven Arts Press. This was followed five years later by ''The New Pornography'', a collection of poems ...

(born 1968, Ir) *

Fred Chappell Fred Davis Chappell (born May 28, 1936 in Canton, North Carolina) is an author and poet. He was an English professor for 40 years (1964–2004) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1 ...

(born 1936, US) *

Craig Charles Craig Joseph Charles (born 11 July 1964) is an English actor, comedian, television and radio presenter. He is best known for his roles as Dave Lister in the science fiction sitcom ''Red Dwarf'' and Lloyd Mullaney in the soap opera ''Coronation ...

(born 1964, E) * James Charlton (born 1947, A) *

Thomas Chatterton Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Altho ...

(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 (born 1940, 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 Marilyn Chin (陈美玲) is a prominent Chinese American poet, writer, activist, and feminist, as well as an editor and Professor of English. She is well-represented in major canonical anthologies and textbooks and her work is taught all over th ...

(born 1955, US) *

Staceyann Chin Staceyann Chin (born December 25, 1972) is a spoken-word poet, performing artist and LGBT rights political activist. Her work has been published in ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', and the ''Pittsburgh Daily'', and has been featu ...

(born 1972, J) * Eileen Chong (born 1980, A) * Robert Choquette (1905–1991, C) *

Lesley Choyce Lesley Choyce (born 21 March 1951) (m. Linda Choyce) is a Canadian author of novels, non-fiction, children's books, young adult novels, and poetry. He is the author of more than 100 books for adults, teens and children, and teaches in the Englis ...

(born 1951, C) * Margaret Christakos (born 1962, C) * Evie Christie (living, C) *

Ralph Chubb Ralph Nicholas Chubb (8 February 1892 – 14 January 1960) was an English poet, Printer (publisher), printer and artist. Heavily influenced by Walt Whitman, Whitman, William Blake, Blake, and the Romanticism, Romantics, his work was the creati ...

(1892–1960, E) * Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710, E) *

Hubert Newman Wigmore Church Hubert Newman Wigmore Church (13 June 1857 – 8 April 1932) was an Australian poet. Church was born in Hobart, Tasmania, the son of Hubert Day Church and his wife Mary Ann. His father, a barrister, came from Somerset and was a descendant of the ...

(1857–1932, A) * Richard Church (1893–1972, E) * Charles Churchill (1731–1764, E) *

John Ciardi John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

(1916–1986, US) *

Colley Cibber Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir ''Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber'' (1740) describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling ...

(1671–1757, E) * Charl Cilliers (born 1941, SA) *

Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, ''The House on Mango Street'' (1983), and her subsequent short story collection, '' Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories'' (1991). Her work e ...

(born 1954, US) * Carson Cistulli (born 1979, US)

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* Amy Clampitt (1920–1994, US *

Kate Clanchy Kate Clanchy MBE (born 1965 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British poet, freelance writer and teacher. Early life She was born in 1965 in Glasgow to medieval historian Michael Clanchy and teacher Joan Clanchy (née Milne). She was educated at Ge ...

(born 1965, S) *

John Clanvowe Sir John Clanvowe (c. 1341 – 17 October 1391) was a Welsh diplomat, poet and chamber knight to Richard II. He was born to a Marcher family and was possibly of mixed Anglo-Welsh origin, holding lands that would lie in the present-day Radnorshi ...

(c. 1341–1391, W/E) *

John Clare John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and sorrows at its disruption. His work underwent major re-evaluation in the late 20th ce ...

(1793–1864, E) * Dave Clark (living, C) * Douglas Clark (1942–2010, E) * Elizabeth Clark (1918–1978, S) * Emily Clark (fl. 1798–1833, E) * Ross Clark (born 1953, A) * Tom Clark (1941–2018, US) * Thomas Clark (born 1980, S) * Amy Key Clarke (1892–1980, E) * Austin Clarke (1886–1974, Ir) *

George Elliott Clarke George Elliott Clarke, (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015 and as the 2016–2017 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. His work is known larg ...

(born 1960, C) *

Gillian Clarke Gillian Clarke (born 8 June 1937) is a Welsh poet and playwright, who also edits, broadcasts, lectures and translates from Welsh into English. She co-founded Tŷ Newydd, a writers' centre in North Wales. Life Gillian Clarke was born on 8 J ...

(born 1937, W) * Jack Clarke (1933–1992, US) *

Marcus Clarke Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (24 April 1846 – 2 August 1881) was an English-born Australian novelist, journalist, poet, editor, librarian, and playwright. He is best known for his 1874 novel '' For the Term of His Natural Life'', about the c ...

(1846–1881, A) * Brian P. Cleary (born 1959, US) *

Brendan Cleary Brendan Cleary (born 1958) is a poet who was born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland but lives in England. Early years and career Cleary attended Carrickfergus Grammar School in Northern Ireland. He moved from Northern Ireland in 1977 to Middlesb ...

(born 1958, NI) * William Cleland (1661–1689, S) *

Justin Clemens Justin Clemens (born 22 April 1969) is an Australian academic known for his work on Alain Badiou, psychoanalysis, European philosophy, and contemporary Australian art and literature. He is also a published poet. Background Clemens studied at the ...

(born 1969, A) * Benjamin Clementine (born 1988, E/F) *

Jack Clemo Reginald John Clemo (11 March 1916 – 25 July 1994) was a British poet and writer who was strongly associated both with his native Cornwall and his strong Christian belief. His work was considered to be visionary and inspired by the rugged Cor ...

(1916–1994, E) * John Cleveland (1613–1658, E) * Michelle Cliff (1946–2016, J/US) *

Wayne Clifford ''For the Australian former professional rugby league footballer, see Wayne Clifford (rugby league).'' Wayne Clifford (born 1944) is a Canadian poet and academic. Early life and education Clifford was born in 1944 in Toronto, Ontario. He e ...

(born 1944, C) *

Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Li ...

(1936–2010, US) *

Caroline Clive Caroline Clive, sometimes known as Caroline Wigley Clive (pseudonym, V; 24 June 1801 – 13 July 1873) was an English writer. She was known chiefly as the author of ''IX Poems'' that when first published, took their place in the forefront of the ...

(1801–1873, E) * Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861, E)

Co–Cu

* Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976, US) *

Florence Earle Coates Florence Van Leer Earle Nicholson Coates (July 1, 1850 – April 6, 1927) was an American poet, whose prolific output was published in many literary magazines, some of it set to music. She was mentored by the English poet Matthew Arnold, with wh ...

(1850–1927, US) *

Bob Cobbing Bob Cobbing (30 July 1920 – 29 September 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival. Early life Cobbing was born in Enfield and grew up within the Plymouth Breth ...

(1920–2002, E) * Robbie Coburn (born 1994, A) *

Alison Cockburn Alison Cockburn also Alison Rutherford, or Alicia Cockburn (8 October 171222 November 1794) was a Scottish people, Scottish poet, wit and socialite who collected a circle of eminent friends in 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment, enlightenme ...

(awa Alison Rutherford, 1712–1794, S) *

Alice Rollit Coe Alice Rollit Coe (1858–1940) was a Canadian emigrant to the United States, Seattle housewife and author. She wrote ''Lyrics of Fir and Foam'' (1908) and ''Chimes Rung by the University District Herald'' (1921). Biography She was born Alice Sa ...

(1858–1940, US) * Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016, US) * Brian Coffey (1905–1995, Ir/F) *

Fred Cogswell Fred Cogswell CM (November 8, 1917 – June 20, 2004) was a Canadian poet. Life and career Born in East Centreville, New Brunswick he served overseas in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. A teacher at the age of sixteen, Cogswell gai ...

(1917–2004, C) *

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...

(1934–2016, C) * Matt Cohen (1942–1999, C) * Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958, US) *

Norma Cole Norma Cole (born May 12, 1945) is a Canadian poet, visual artist, translator, and curator. An Anglophone Canadian by birth, Cole learned French at an early age, and went on to translate the works of French poets Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Coll ...

(born 1945, C/US) *

Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch (7 October 1945 – 10 September 2019) was a West Australian author, poet, lecturer, journalist, editor, and lawyer. Biography Colebatch was the son and biographer of Australian politician Sir Hal Colebatch (18 ...

(1945–2019, A) *

Aidan Coleman Aidan Coleman (born 17 August 1988) is an Irish National Hunt jockey, who has ridden multiple Grade 1 winners in the United Kingdom including at the Cheltenham Festival. Career Coleman was born in Cork, Ireland and moved to England in 2006 wo ...

(born 1976, A) *

Victor Coleman Victor Coleman (born September 9, 1944) is a Canadian poet. Biography Born in Toronto, Coleman was the first editor at Coach House Books from 1966 until 1975. After his tenure in publishing, he managed the multidisciplinary art centre, A Space ...

(born 1944, C) * Wanda Coleman (1946–2013, US) * Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849, E) * Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907, E) *

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake ...

(1772–1834, E) *

Don Coles Donald L. Coles (April 12, 1927 – November 29, 2017) was a Canadian poet and novelist. He won the 1993 Governor General's Award for English poetry for his collection ''Forests of the Medieval World'' and the Trillium Book Award in 2000 for his co ...

(1927–2017, C) *

Katharine Coles Katharine Coles is an American poet and educator. She served from 2006 to 2012 as Utah's third poet laureate and currently serves as the inaugural director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute and the co-director of the Utah Symposium in Sci ...

(born 1959, US) * Edward Coletti (living, US) * Mary Collier (c. 1688–1762, E) *

Billy Collins William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (retired, 2016). Collins ...

(born 1941, US) * John Collins (1742–1808, E) * 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 Padraic Colum (8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Irish Literary Revival. Early life Col ...

(1881–1972, Ir/US) *

Anna Olcott Commelin Anna Olcott Commelin (1841 – July 1, 1924) was an American writer and poet. Early life and career Commelin was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she also attended the Brooklyn Heights Seminary. She wrote poems for ''Index'', the ''Open Court' ...

(1841–1924, US) * Anne Compton (born 1947, C) * Wayde Compton (born 1972, C) *

Helen Gray Cone Helen Gray Cone (March 8, 1859 – January 31, 1934) was a poet and professor of English literature. She spent her entire career at Hunter College in New York City. Early life and education Cone was born in New York and attended the Normal Colle ...

(1859–1934, US) *

William Congreve William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and poet of the Restoration period. He is known for his clever, satirical dialogue and influence on the comedy of manners style of that period. He was also a mi ...

(1670–1729, E) * Jan Conn (born 1952, C/US) * Stewart Conn (born 1936, S) *

Paul Conneally Paul Terence Conneally (born 1959 in Sheffield, United Kingdom) is a poet, artist and musician based in Loughborough, UK. Poetry and art In the field of poetry Conneally is best known for his haiku and haiku-related forms including haibun and ...

(born 1959, E) * Karen Connelly (born 1969, C) * Kevin Connolly (born 1962, C) * Susan Connolly (born 1956, Ir) *

Robert Conquest George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British historian and poet. A long-time research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Conquest was most notable for his work on the Soviet Union. His books ...

(1917–2015, E) * Tony Conran (1931–2013, W) *

Henry Constable Henry Constable (1562 – 9 October 1613) was an English poet, known particularly for ''Diana'', one of the first English sonnet sequences. In 1591 he converted to Catholicism, and lived in exile on the continent for some years. He returned to E ...

(1562–1613, E/F) *

David Constantine David John Constantine (born 1944) is an English poet, author and translator. Background Born in Salford, Constantine read Modern Languages at Wadham College, Oxford, and was a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, until 2000, when he became ...

(born 1944, E) * Eliza Cook (1818–1889, E) * Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (born 1930, US) * Sophie Cooke (born 1976, S) *

Ina Coolbrith Ina Donna Coolbrith (born Josephine Donna Smith; March 10, 1841 – February 29, 1928) was an American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community. Called the "Sweet Singer of California", sh ...

(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) *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)

D

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 (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 or 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 (born 1944, 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) *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) *Ramabai Espinet (born 1948, T) *Jill Alexander Essbaum (born 1971, US) *Maggie Estep (1963–2014, US) *George Etherege (1635–1691, E) *Michael Estok (1939–1989, C) *Jerry Estrin (1947–1993, US) *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 (born 1931, 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) *Graham Fulton (born 1959, S) *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) *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 (born 1943, 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 (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) *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) *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) *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 (living, 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 (born 1929, 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) *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 (born 1934, 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) *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) *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) *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) *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) *Donald Justice (1925–2004, US) *Sarangi,Jaydeep (1973, IND] Michael J. Astrue, A. M. Juster (born 1956, 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 (born 1928, 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 (born 1938, 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) *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 (born 1935, 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 (born 1939, 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) *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 (born 1938, 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 (born 1957, 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 (born 1939, S) *Jayanta Mahapatra (born 1928, 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 (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 (born 1971, A) *Ray Mathew (1929–2002, A) *Robin Mathews (poet), Robin Mathews (born 1931, C) *Roland Mathias (1915–2007, W) *Cleopatra Mathis (born 1947, US) *Don Mattera (born 1935, SA) *James Matthews (writer), James Matthews (born 1929, 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 (born 1932, 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 (born 1934, 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 (living, 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 (living, C) *Christopher Middleton (d. 1628), Christopher Middleton (c. 1560–1628, E) *Christopher Middleton (poet), Christopher Middleton (born 1926, 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 (living, 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) *Lenore Montanaro (born 1990, US) *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) *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 (born 1942, 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 (writer), 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 (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 (born 1932, 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 (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) *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 (poet), 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 (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 (born 1940, 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 (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) *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 (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) *Janet 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 (living, C) *W. W. E. Ross (1894–1966, C) *Christina Rossetti (1830–1894, E) *Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882, E) *Jerome Rothenberg (born 1931, 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) *Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980, US) *James Runcie#Personal life, Charlotte Runcie (born 1989, S) *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) *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 (born 1952, 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) *Ron Silliman (born 1946, US) *Shel Silverstein (1930–1999, US) *Charles Simic (born 1938, 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 (living, 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 (born 1927, 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 (born 1934, 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) *Harold Standish (1919–1972, C) *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 (born 1925, US) *Ricardo Sternberg (born 1948, C/US) *C. J. Stevens (born 1927, 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 (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 (born 1934, 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 (born 1933, 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) *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 (born 1935, E) *Dylan Thomas (1914–1953, W/E) *Edward Thomas (poet), Edward Thomas (1878–1917, E) *Elizabeth Thomas (poet), 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 (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 (born 1943, 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) *Calvin Trillin (born 1935, 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) *Unorthodox Australian Poet (Garry W. Gosney, born 1955, A) *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 (born 1947, US)

V

*Jean Valentine (born 1934, 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 (born 1944, 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 (born 1933, 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 (born 1932, 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 (living, 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 (born 1927, 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 (1758–1852, E) *David Wevill (born 1935, C/US)

Wh–Wy

*Philip Whalen (1923–2002, US) *Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972, C) *Anne Wharton (1659–1685, E) *Gordon Wharton (born 1929, E) *Herb Wharton (born 1936, A) *Mary Whateley (1738–1835, 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 (born 1936, 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 (born 1950, 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 (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) *Clive Wilmer (born 1945, 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, born 1945, 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 (born 1949, 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

*Matthew Zapruder (born 1967, US) *Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982, US) *Robert Zend (1929–1985, C) *Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958, 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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