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Biographies
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Here you can find out more about the huge range of poets we feature in our pamphlets and the artists whose work appears on our beautiful covers.
We’ve now published poems by almost 800 historical and contemporary poets. In our pages you’ll find old favourites alongside twenty-first century voices – everyone from WH Auden to Benjamin Zephaniah. Although our emphasis is on British poetry, you’ll also find Irish, American and Australian writers.
We hope these pages will encourage you to explore further the work of a poet you’ve enjoyed in one of our pamphlets.
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Jacqueline Brown
Jacqueline Brown was born in 1944 in Sheffield and died in 2008. She won the 1992 Arvon/Observer International Poetry Competition. Hercollection, Thinking Egg, was published by Arc, and she was the author of three further books of poetry: Accidental Reality, Fractured Flights, and In a Woman’s Likeness, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She spent most of her life in Adult and Special Education.
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Michael Brown
Michael Brown is a British poet based in the North East. He won a New Writing North Award in 2017. He has published three pamphlets; Undersong (Eyewear 2014), Locations for a Soul (Templar, 2016) and Right of Way (Maytree, 2023). A full collection Where Grown Men Go was published by Salt in 2019. He has also been longlisted in the National Poetry Competition.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861) was an English poet of the Romantic Movement, widely popular in her lifetime. She began to gain fame in the 1830s, and wrote several collections of poetry, including the acclaimed Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), a series of love poems. She also wrote the verse novel Aurora Leigh and many of her later works speak out against social injustice. She eloped in 1846 and settled in Florence, Italy with the poet Robert Browning.
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning (1812 – 1889) was born in London and is one of the leading poets of the Victorian era. He is best known for the psychological power of dramatic monologues such as ‘My Last Duchess’ and for the epic The Ring and the Book, a novel in verse. He also wrote the children’s poem ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin.’
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Alexandra Buckle
Alexandra Buckle is an artist and printmaker now living in Bicester. She studied Art at Oxford Brookes University and then Design at Staffordshire University. Her linocuts often take inspiration from the local woods where she walks and from formal gardens. Her work has been widely exhibited across the UK and she also teaches linocut at her home studio.
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Adrian Buckner
Adrian Buckner lectures in Creative Writing at Derby University. He was the editor of Poetry Nottingham, renamed Assent, from 2004-2013, and is a former Reviews Editor for Staple literary magazine. He studied English at University College, Swansea, and is the author of four poetry collections, including Bed Time Reading (2011) and Contains Mild Peril (2008).
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