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Biographies

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 850 historical and contemporary poets. In our pages you’ll find old favourites alongside twenty-first century voices – everyone from WH Auden to Belinda Zhawi. 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.

  • Norman Nicholson

    Norman Nicholson (1914 – 1987) lived all his life in the iron-mining town of Millom, Cumbria, and his relationship with the social and religious community and the landscape there informed his work. He wrote in several genres, but is best known for his poetry and was awarded the Queens Medal for Poetry in 1977 and the OBE in 1981. His Collected Poems was published by Faber & Faber in 1994.

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  • CP Nield

    CP Nield’s poetry has been published in New Poetries IV (Carcanet), Footprints (Broken Sleep Books) and The Poet’s Quest for God (Eyewear) as well as journals such as The Spectator, PN Review, The North, The Rialto and The London Magazine. As described in his poem ‘Our Book Tree,’ he does indeed pile up his books each year to build a Christmas tree that reaches the ceiling.

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  • Lauren K Nixon

    Lauren K Nixon is an ex-archaeologist and author who has written short stories such as The Fox and the Fool and the Chambers magic series. She also curates ‘The Superstars’, a community of writers, poets and artists. Her poetry collection Wild Daughter (The Mysterium, 2021) explores themes of folklore, femininity and the natural world.

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  • Alistair Noon

    Alistair Noon is a British poet who is based in Berlin. His translations of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam have appeared in the Guardian and New Statesman, His most recent collection is the long poem Paradise Takeaway (Two Rivers Press, 2023).

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  • Stephanie Norgate

    Stephanie Norgate is a poet and playwright who lives in Sussex and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. Her collections Hidden River (2008) and The Blue Den (2012) are both published by Bloodaxe. She sees a close connection between radio and poetry and her poems are often closely engaged with the natural world. As a child she often played in the Selborne garden of Gilbert White.

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  • Alden Nowlan

    Alden Nowlan (1933 – 1983), poet, dramatist and novelist, left school early and later supported his writing by working as a nightshift journalist and newspaper editor. His early works were inspired by rural Nova Scotia and he was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Prize in 1978. He is the author of several collections of poetry, the last being I Might Not Tell Everybody This (1982).

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