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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 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.

  • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

    Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork and is a leading contemporary poet, translator and editor. She has published several poetry collections, including Acts and Monuments (1966) which won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, The Magdalene Sermon (1989) and most recently The Boys of Bluehill (2015), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.

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  • Grace Nichols

    Grace Nichols was born in Guyana and moved to the UK in the 1970s. She is well-known as a poet writing for both adults and children. Her children’s collections include Everybody Got A Gift (2005) while her adult collections include The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984) and The Insomnia Poems (2017).

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Stanley O. Ayodeji

    Stanley O. Ayodeji is a writer, performer and poet.  His novel Damage Limitation was published by CreateSpace in 2014.  His first collection of poetry After the Riot, Quiet was published by CreateSpace in the same year. He is a collaborator in the We4Poets network.

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