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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

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Connor Allen

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Moniza Alvi

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Abeer Ameer (@hijjabi) / Twitter

 

Rowyda Amin

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Anthony Anaxagorou

 

Romalyn Ante

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Raymond Antrobus

 

Simon Armitage

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Mona Arshi

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Polly Atkin - Shadow Dispatches

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Cameron Awkward-Rich

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Chrissy Banks

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Khairani Barokka

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Simon Barraclough

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Nnimmo Bassey

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Jeffery Beam

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Darren J Beaney

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Louise Bennett Coverley

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Emily Berry

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i hope crispin best is still alive

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The William Blake Archive

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John Bolland - A View From the Long Grass

 

Malika Booker

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Janine Booth

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Pat Boran

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Rachel Bower

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Jo Brandon

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Sue Burge

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Lewis Buxton

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Hugh Bryden

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Chaucer Cameron

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Jen Campbell

 

Susie Campbell

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Charles Causley

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Eleni Cay

 

Ellen Chang-Richardson

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Regi Claire

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Gillian Clarke

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Thomas A Clark

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Stephen Claughton

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Ken Cockburn

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Claire Collison

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Sarah Connor

 

Suzanne Conway

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Josephine Corcoran – never knowingly without a pen

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Brittney Corrigan

 

Sally Crabtree

 

Virginia Crawford – questions for water

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Tom Crompton

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Martyn Crucefix

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Barbara Cumbers

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Jonathan Davidson

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Todd Davis

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Hélène Demetriades

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Melissa Diem

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Chase Dimock

 

Isobel Dixon

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Sarah Dixon: The Quiet Compere

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Damien B. Donnelly

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Jane Dougherty: The Four Swans

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Cath Drake

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Linda Drattell

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Nikki Dudley

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Matt Duggan (Facebook)

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Aidan Andrew Dun

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Helen Dunmore

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Antony Dunn

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Mari Ellis Dunning

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Adref - Menna Elfyn

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Mohammed El-Kurd

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Helen Evans

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Suzannah Evans

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Bernardine Evaristo

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Fiona Farrell

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Joseph Fasano

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Martin Figura

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Sue Finch

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Jonny Fluffypunk

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SJ Fowler

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Linda France

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Lucy Furlong

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Dai George

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Harry Josephine Giles

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Dana Gioia

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Dawn Gorman

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Rebecca Goss

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Kathryn Gray

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Thomas Gray Archive

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Mish Green

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Paula Green: See Poetry Box  and NZ Poetry Shelf

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Bill Greenwell

 

Philip Gross

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Joanna Guthrie

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Mandy Haggith

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Janice N. Harrington

 

Paula Harris

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David Harsent

 

Milla van der Have

 

Diana Hendry

 

Paul Henry

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Hannah Hodgson

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Danielle Hope

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Zoë Sîobhan Howarth-Lowe

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Sue Hubbard

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Kit Ingram

 

Shagufta K Iqbal

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Major Jackson

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Rosie Jackson

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Sarah James

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Emilie Lauren Jones - Coventry Poet Laureate

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Pierre Joris

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Meena Kandasamy

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Rupi Kaur

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Patrick Kavanagh Centre

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Keats-Shelley Memorial Association

 

Shamshad Khan

 

John Kinsella - Mutually Said: Poets Vegan Anarchist Pacifist

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Karl Knights (@Inadarkwood) / Twitter

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Michael Laskey

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Len Lawson

 

Shanhu Lee

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Jenny Lewis

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Simon Lewis

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Tim Liardet

 

Stephen Lightbown 

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Timothy Liu

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Adam Lowe

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Hannah Lowe

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Hugh Macdiarmid

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Somhairle MacGill-Eain

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Lila Matsumoto

 

Glyn Maxwell

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Fokkina McDonnell (Acacia Publications)

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Karen J McDonnell

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Michael Mckimm

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Mouse & Muse by Trevor Millum

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Otis Mensah

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Christopher Meredith 

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U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo

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Edwin Morgan Trust

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Helen Mort

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Valzhyna Mort

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JLM Morton

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Chris Murray

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Steve Nash Writes

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Andrew Neilson

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Camilla Nelson

 

Lorine Niedecker

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Jessamine O Connor

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Ruth Padel

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Caleb Parkin | Bristol City Poet

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Stuart Paterson 

 

Pascale Petite

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m. norbeSe philip

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Vic Pickup

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Clare Pollard

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Wendy Pratt Writing

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Joy Priest - Home

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The Bibliography of J.H. Prynne 

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Chelsea Rathburn

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Juanita Rea

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Marcella Remund

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Fay Roberts

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Sarah Roby

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Stevie Ronnie

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Michael Rosen 

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Carol Rumens

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Sarah Salway

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Leslie Scalapino

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Michael Schmidt

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Seni Seneviratne

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Elisabeth Sennitt Clough

 

Penny Sharman

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Robert Sheppard

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Lemn Sissay

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Merrild Smith

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Lizzie Smith

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Yomi Sode

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Saradha Soobrayen

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David Spittle

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Joyce Sutphen

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Kenneth Steven

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Anne Stevenson

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Degna Stone

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Anne Tannam

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Joelle Taylor

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Dylan Thomas

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The Official Dylan Thomas website

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Harry Ransom Centre: Dylan Thomas  Digital Collection

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The Dylan Thomas Centre

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BBC: Dylan Thomas

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

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Luke Thompson

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Steven Toussaint

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Claire Trevien

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Derek Walcott

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June Wentland

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Jo Weston

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Jay Whittaker

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Hamish Whyte

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Joe Williams

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Alice Willitts

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Emily Wills

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Anthony Wilson

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Shelley Wong

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Wordsworth Grasmere

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

 

Don Yorty

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Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe

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Benjamin Zephaniah

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Lists of Poets

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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.)

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Famous Poets and Poems 631 of them

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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

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Poem Hunter The Explore Poets page has 3004 poets and there are 400,000 site member poets, too

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Poet Seers Over 150 'Great Poets'

 

Poetry Archive 565 poets 

 

Poetry Foundation 5,381 poets

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

 

Poetry Out Loud 65 pages of poets

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

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Poetry Super Highway 1488 individual poets websites

 

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

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

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Tears in the Fence 65 bloggers, poets and writers

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Wikipedia - List of poets 'This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets'

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Wikipedia - List of years in poetry Fascinating year by year history which shows poets in historical context

Also see

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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.

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List of poetry groups and movements - Wikipedia

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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)

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(From the) Apocalypse to the Movement (warwick.ac.uk)

 

15 Arab Poets of the 21st Century - Arab America

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​Arabic poetry: 10 writers, classic and modern, you need to read | Middle East Eye

 

Black Mountain poets - Wikipedia

 

Concrete Poetry

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Concrete Poetry Movement Overview | TheArtStory

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 Concrete Poetry | Getty Research Institute | The Getty Research Institute

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Concrete poetry - Wikipedia

 

Female poets

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Female poets - Wikipedia

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Poethead - Index of Women Poets 2008-2021 

(Now a closed archive)

 

Feminist poets - Wikipedia

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Georgian Poets  - Wikipedia

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Imagist Poets - Wikipedia

 

Lake Poets - Wikipedia

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Liverpool poets - Wikipedia

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Metaphysical poets - Wikipedia

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New York School (art) - Wikipedia

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Oulipo Poets - Wikipedia

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Scottish Poets - Scottish Poetry Library 40 pages of Scottish poets

 

Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry - Wikipedia

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U.S. states' poets laureate - Wikipedia

 

Visual Poetry - UbuWeb

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Waka Poets

 

Waka (poetry) - Wikipedia 

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Waka Poets on www.wakapoetry.net 

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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.

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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.

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Last complete page update: 8 November 2023, most recent minor updates 7 December 2023 and 21 February 2024

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