Links to: Poets Own Pages
Ok...there is lots of poets, many with an online presence. My intention is to add them slowly over time as they crop up on the news page. Please contact me, though if there is someone you are just itching to see in this list sooner... Scroll down to see a list of Poet Lists!
Click the underlined words to go to that poet's page.
A-Z of poet webpages
Abeer Ameer (@hijjabi) / Twitter
Polly Atkin - Shadow Dispatches
i hope crispin best is still alive
John Bolland - A View From the Long Grass
The Poetic Pursuit of Juliet Cook
Josephine Corcoran – never knowingly without a pen
Virginia Crawford – questions for water
Sarah Dixon: The Quiet Compere
Jane Dougherty: The Four Swans
Paula Green: See Poetry Box and NZ Poetry Shelf
Emilie Lauren Jones - Coventry Poet Laureate
Keats-Shelley Memorial Association
John Kinsella - Mutually Said: Poets Vegan Anarchist Pacifist
Karl Knights (@Inadarkwood) / Twitter
Feliform Spleen Vehicle | Fran Lock | Substack
Glyn Maxwell Silly Games to Save the World | glynmaxwell@gmail.com | Substack
Fokkina McDonnell (Acacia Publications)
Caleb Parkin | Bristol City Poet
Clare’s Poetry Circle | Clare Pollard
Clare Pollard (The archived old site)
Notes From the Margin with Wendy Pratt | Substack
The Bibliography of J.H. Prynne
Dylan Thomas
The Official Dylan Thomas website
Harry Ransom Centre: Dylan Thomas Digital Collection
The Edward Thomas Fellowship - Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
W.B.Yeats Society Sligo | The Official Yeats Website
Lists of Poets
All Poetry along with being a self-publishing site has nearly 200 famous poets listed
Best Poems (best-poems.net) 7183 poets listed by nationality
Electronic Poetry Center a highly alternative list
Famous Poets and Poems 631 of them
From The Fishouse 32 pages of emerging poets
Lannan Foundation 291 Lannan Prize and Award winners till 2022, though admittedly not all poets
Lyricline 1701 poets
Index – Moving Poems 2452 videopoems here listed by poet
Hello Poetry 284 (I counted them) Classic poets
Poem Hunter The Explore Poets page has 3004 poets and there are 400,000 site member poets, too
Poet Seers Over 150 'Great Poets'
Poetry Archive 565 poets
Poetry International p! Over 1,736 poets on 73 pages
Poetry Out Loud 67 pages of poets
Poetry Soup - Top 100 Famous Poets - All Time Well, 100. Plus over 46,000 member poets
Poetry Super Highway 1493 individual poets websites
Poets .org | Academy of American Poets 3000+ poets I read somewhere
RPO (Representative Poets Online) - Poets 723 poets to search for.
Sixty Odd Poets | Mike O’Brien | Substack
Tears in the Fence 65 bloggers, poets and writers
Wikipedia - List of poets 'This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets'
Wikipedia - List of years in poetry Fascinating year by year history which shows poets in historical context
Also see
Portal:Poetry - Wikipedia This is the link to all Wikipedia's poetry pages, and is the index for many of the links I have still listed individually here.
List of poetry groups and movements - Wikipedia
National poetry - Wikipedia which links to poets of different named nations
A to Z
(Sometimes it's hard to pinpoint Wiki pages so the shortcuts here are ones
I personally wanted quick links to)
(From the) Apocalypse to the Movement (warwick.ac.uk)
15 Arab Poets of the 21st Century - Arab America
Arabic poetry: 10 writers, classic and modern, you need to read | Middle East Eye
Black Mountain poets - Wikipedia
Concrete Poetry
Concrete Poetry Movement Overview | TheArtStory
Concrete Poetry | Getty Research Institute | The Getty Research Institute
Female poets
Poethead - Index of Women Poets 2008-2021
Metaphysical poets - Wikipedia
New York School (art) - Wikipedia
Scottish Poets - Scottish Poetry Library 44 pages of Scottish poets
Scots-language poets - Wikipedia
Symbolism (movement) - Wikipedia
Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry - Wikipedia
U.S. states' poets laureate - Wikipedia
Waka Poets
Waka Poets on www.wakapoetry.net
Welsh-language poets - Wikipedia
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Last complete page update: 31 March 2025, last minor update 27th May, 2026