Fleur Adcock is a New Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England. She is well-represented in New Zealand poetry anthologies, was awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from Victoria University of Wellington, and was awarded an OBE in 1996 for her contribution to New Zealand literature. In 2008 she was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature.
Priscilla Denise Levertov was a British-born naturalised American poet. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
Marin Sorescu was a Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist.
Barry MacSweeney was an English poet and journalist. His organizing work contributed to the British Poetry Revival.
Francis Arthur Ormsby is an author and poet from Northern Ireland.
Jo Shapcott FRSL is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award.
Anne Stevenson was an American-British poet and writer and recipient of a Lannan Literary Award.
Anne Barrett Rouse is an American-British poet. She has been cited as a noted American-British contributor to contemporary British poetry.
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry is a major anthology of twentieth century Australian poetry. Edited by poets Philip Mead and John Tranter it was published by Penguin Australia in 1991. Aside from the usual criticisms any such anthology will produce, it raised some eyebrows at the time for its inclusion of all the Ern Malley hoax poems. It might be claimed there is no accepted canon of contemporary Australian poetry and this book is the selection of its editors.
Ann Sansom is a British poet and writing tutor. She has written two full length collections of poetry and her work has appeared in anthologies, newspapers and magazines around the world. She is currently a regular tutor for the Workers' Educational Association, Poetry Society and Arvon Foundation; and has taught at Sheffield Hallam University, University of Leeds, University of Exeter and University of Oxford. As well as giving hundreds of readings and workshops in the UK over the last two decades, Ann has also read and taught in India, Finland and Greece.
Ecopoetry is poetry with a strong ecological emphasis or message. Many poets, poems and books of poems have expressed ecological concerns; but only recently has the term ecopoetry gained use. There is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of ecopoetry.
Carol Rumens FRSL is a British poet.
Robert Ian Duhig is a British poet. In 2014, he was a chair of the final judging panel for the T. S. Eliot Prize awards.
Carole Satyamurti was a British poet, sociologist, and translator.
Alistair Elliot was a British librarian, poet and translator.
Peter Armstrong is an English poet and psychotherapist. He was born in County Durham and now lives in Northumberland.
Edna Longley is an Irish literary critic and cultural commentator specialising in modern Irish and British poetry.
Neil Astley, Hon. FRSL is an English publisher, editor and writer. He is best known as the founder of the poetry publishing house Bloodaxe Books.
Jeni Couzyn is a feminist poet and anthologist of South African extraction who lives and works in Canada and the United Kingdom. Her best known collection is titled Life by Drowning: Selected Poems (1985), which includes an earlier sequence A Time to Be Born (1981) that chronicles her pregnancy and the birth of her daughter.
Deborah Randall is a British poet. Randall started writing in 1986, and in 1988 she won the first Bloodaxe National Poetry Competition. Her debut poetry collection, The Sin Eater (1989) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Her second collection, White Eyes Dark Ages (1993), was a portrait in verse of John Ruskin.
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