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Poets

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!

A-Z of poet webpages

 

 

Dilruba Ahmed

Connor Allen

Moniza Alvi

Abeer Ameer (@hijjabi) / Twitter

 

Rowyda Amin

Anthony Anaxagorou

 

Romalyn Ante

Raymond Antrobus

 

Simon Armitage

Mona Arshi

Polly Atkin - Shadow Dispatches

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Chrissy Banks

Khairani Barokka

Simon Barraclough

Nnimmo Bassey

Jeffery Beam

Darren J Beaney

Louise Bennett Coverley

Emily Berry

i hope crispin best is still alive

The William Blake Archive

John Bolland - A View From the Long Grass

 

Malika Booker

Janine Booth

Pat Boran

Rachel Bower

Jo Brandon

Sue Burge

Lewis Buxton

Hugh Bryden

Chaucer Cameron

Jen Campbell

 

Susie Campbell

Charles Causley

Eleni Cay

 

Ellen Chang-Richardson

Regi Claire

Gillian Clarke

Thomas A Clark

Ken Cockburn

Claire Collison

Sarah Connor

 

Suzanne Conway

Josephine Corcoran – never knowingly without a pen

Brittney Corrigan

 

Sally Crabtree

 

Virginia Crawford – questions for water

Tom Crompton

Barbara Cumbers

Jonathan Davidson

Todd Davis

Hélène Demetriades

Melissa Diem

Chase Dimock

 

Isobel Dixon

Sarah Dixon: The Quiet Compere

Damien B. Donnelly

Jane Dougherty: The Four Swans

Cath Drake

Linda Drattell

Nikki Dudley

Matt Duggan (Facebook)

Aidan Andrew Dun

Helen Dunmore

Antony Dunn

Mari Ellis Dunning

Adref - Menna Elfyn

Mohammed El-Kurd

Helen Evans

Suzannah Evans

Bernardine Evaristo

Fiona Farrell

Joseph Fasano

Martin Figura

Sue Finch

Jonny Fluffypunk

SJ Fowler

Linda France

Lucy Furlong

Dai George

Harry Josephine Giles

Dana Gioia

Dawn Gorman

Rebecca Goss

Kathryn Gray

Thomas Gray Archive

Mish Green

Paula Green: See Poetry Box  and NZ Poetry Shelf

Bill Greenwell

 

Philip Gross

Joanna Guthrie

Mandy Haggith

Janice N. Harrington

 

Paula Harris

David Harsent

 

Milla van der Have

 

Diana Hendry

 

Paul Henry

Hannah Hodgson

Danielle Hope

Zoë Sîobhan Howarth-Lowe

Sue Hubbard

Kit Ingram

 

Shagufta K Iqbal

Major Jackson

Rosie Jackson

Sarah James

Emilie Lauren Jones - Coventry Poet Laureate

Meena Kandasamy

Rupi Kaur

Patrick Kavanagh Centre

Keats-Shelley Memorial Association

 

Shamshad Khan

 

John Kinsella - Mutually Said: Poets Vegan Anarchist Pacifist

Karl Knights (@Inadarkwood) / Twitter

Michael Laskey

Len Lawson

 

Shanhu Lee

Jenny Lewis

Simon Lewis

Tim Liardet

 

Stephen Lightbown 

Timothy Liu

Adam Lowe

Hannah Lowe

Hugh Macdiarmid

Somhairle MacGill-Eain

Lila Matsumoto

 

Glyn Maxwell

Fokkina McDonnell (Acacia Publications)

Karen J McDonnell

Michael Mckimm

Otis Mensah

Christopher Meredith 

U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo

Edwin Morgan Trust

Helen Mort

JLM Morton

Chris Murray

Steve Nash Writes

Andrew Neilson

Camilla Nelson

 

Lorine Niedecker

Jessamine O Connor

Ruth Padel

Caleb Parkin | Bristol City Poet

Stuart Paterson 

 

Pascale Petite

m. norbeSe philip

Vic Pickup

Clare Pollard

Wendy Pratt Writing

Joy Priest - Home

The Bibliography of J.H. Prynne 

Chelsea Rathburn

Juanita Rea

Marcella Remund

Fay Roberts

Sarah Roby

Stevie Ronnie

Michael Rosen 

Carol Rumens

Sarah Salway

Michael Schmidt

Seni Seneviratne

Elisabeth Sennitt Clough

 

Penny Sharman

Robert Sheppard

Lemn Sissay

Merrild Smith

Lizzie Smith

Yomi Sode

Saradha Soobrayen

David Spittle

Joyce Sutphen

Kenneth Steven

Anne Stevenson

Degna Stone

Anne Tannam

Joelle Taylor

Dylan Thomas

The Official Dylan Thomas website

Harry Ransom Centre: Dylan Thomas  Digital Collection

The Dylan Thomas Centre

BBC: Dylan Thomas

The Edward Thomas Fellowship - Edward Thomas (1878-1917) 

Luke Thompson

Steven Toussaint

Claire Trevien

Derek Walcott

June Wentland

Jo Weston

Jay Whittaker

Hamish Whyte

Joe Williams

Alice Willitts

Emily Wills

Anthony Wilson

Shelley Wong

Wordsworth Grasmere

W.B.Yeats Society Sligo | The Official Yeats Website

 

Don Yorty

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe

Lists of Poets

All Poetry along with being a self-publishing site has nearly 200 famous poets listed

 

Best Poems (best-poems.net)  7136 poets listed by nationality

 

Electronic Poetry Center a highly alternative list 

 

(Be careful of old links on old sites that can be hijacked - this happened to me on one site linked from one poet, but I cannot trace which poet, the links to the poets themselves are safe.)

Famous Poets and Poems 631 of them

From The Fishouse 32 pages of emerging poets

 

Lannan Foundation 291 Lannan Prize and Award winners, though admittedly not all poets

 

Lyricline  1588 poets

 

Directory - Moving Poems  2187 videopoems here listed by poet

 

Hello Poetry 284 (I counted them) Classic poets

 

Poem Analysis 1105 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 Foundation 5,381 poets

Poetry International  p! Over 1,709 poets on 72 pages

 

Poetry Out Loud 65 pages of poets

Poetry Soup - Top 100 Famous Poets - All Time Well, 100. Plus 30,000 member poets

Poetry Super Highway 1488 individual poets websites

 

Poets .org | Academy of American Poets 3000+ poets I read somewhere

RPO (Representative Poets Online) - Poets 723 poets to search for.

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

Concrete poetry - Wikipedia

 

Female poets

Female poets - Wikipedia

Poethead - Index of Women Poets 2008-2021 

(Now a closed archive)

 

Feminist poets - Wikipedia

Georgian Poets  - Wikipedia

Imagist Poets - Wikipedia

 

Lake Poets - Wikipedia

Liverpool poets - Wikipedia

Metaphysical poets - Wikipedia

New York School (art) - Wikipedia

Oulipo Poets - Wikipedia

Scottish Poets - Scottish Poetry Library 40 pages of Scottish poets

 

Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry - Wikipedia

U.S. states' poets laureate - Wikipedia

 

Visual Poetry - UbuWeb

Waka Poets

 

Waka (poetry) - Wikipedia 

Waka Poets on www.wakapoetry.net 

Disclaimer:

I have absolutely no connection with any of the sites reported above and only pass them on because they sounded interesting to me. I do not gain financially or in any other way from any of the sites I have offered links to. If the sites fail to deliver in some way, this will need to be taken up with that site. I cannot guarantee the safety of the sites I link to, though I do test every site out prior to listing it here; if you do follow the link you do so entirely at your own risk. So what I am saying is please don't sue me, or shoot me as the messenger, though I absolutely would love to hear any positive or negative feedback about any of the sites I link to.

If you are the owner of a site that I have linked to and object to me including a link here please do let me know and I will remove it as soon as possible. Equally if you want to be linked then just ask and I will be very happy to do so.

Last complete page update: 8 November 2023, most recent minor update 7 December 2023

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