List of English-language poets
This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. Main country of residence as a poet : A = Australia, Ag = Antigua, B = Barbados, Bo = Bosnia, C = Canada, Ch = Chile, Cu = Cuba, D = Dominica, De = Denmark, E = England, F = France, G = Germany, Ga = Gambia, Gd = Grenada, Gh = Ghana/Gold Coast, Gr = Greece, Gu = Guyana/British Guiana, Gy = Guernsey, HK = Hong Kong, In = India, IoM = Isle of Man, Is = Israel, Ir = Ireland, It = Italy, J = Jamaica, Je = Jersey, Jp = Japan, K = Kenya, L = Lebanon, M = Malta, Me = Mexico, Mo = Montserrat, Ne = Nepal, Nf = Newfoundland, Ni = Nigeria, NI = Northern Ireland, Nt = Netherlands, NZ = New Zealand, P = Pakistan, Pa = Palestine, Ph = Philippines, PI = Pitcairn Islands, RE = Russian Empire, S = Scotland, SA = South Africa, Se = Serbia, SL = Saint Lucia, SLe = Sierra Leone, SLk = Sri Lanka, So = Somalia, Sw = Sweden, T = Trinidad and Tobago, US = United States/preceding colonies, W = Wales, Z = Zimbabwe/Rhodesia
A
Aa–Al
- Jonathan Aaron
- Chris Abani
- Henry Abbey
- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- J. H. M. Abbott
- Lascelles Abercrombie
- Arthur Talmage Abernethy
- Mark Abley
- James Aboud
- Lionel Abrahams
- Sam Abrams
- Seth Abramson
- Dannie Abse
- Chinua Achebe
- Catherine Obianuju Acholonu
- Kathy Acker
- Diane Ackerman
- Duane Ackerson
- Milton Acorn
- Harold Acton
- Gilbert Adair
- Virginia Hamilton Adair
- Helen Adam
- Jean Adam
- Arthur Henry Adams
- Douglas Adams
- John Adams
- Léonie Adams
- Ryan Adams
- Gil Adamson
- Robert Adamson
- Fleur Adcock
- Joseph Addison
- Kim Addonizio
- Bayo Adebowale
- Toyin Adewale-Gabriel
- Opal Palmer Adisa
- Tatamkhulu Afrika
- John Agard
- Sandra Agard
- Patience Agbabi
- Deborah Ager born 1978, US)
- Kelli Russell Agodon
- Allan Ahlberg
- Ai
- Ama Ata Aidoo
- Conrad Aiken
- Douglas Ainslie
- Thomas Aird
- Adam Aitken
- Neil Aitken
- Funso Aiyejina
- Tolu Ajayi
- Mark Akenside
- Salman Akhtar
- Tolu Akinyemi
- Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair
- Jordie Albiston
- Ammiel Alcalay
- Amos Bronson Alcott
- Louisa May Alcott
- Kaye Aldenhoven
- Richard Aldington
- Elizabeth Alexander
- Sidney A. Alexander
- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling
- Sherman Alexie
- Felipe Alfau
- Edna Alford
- Mike Alfred
- Agha Shahid Ali
- James Alexander Allan
- Rob Allan
- Sandra Alland
- Donna Allard
- Dick Allen
- Donald Allen
- Elizabeth Allen
- Elizabeth Akers Allen
- Leslie Holdsworth Allen
- Lillian Allen
- Richard James Allen
- Ron Allen
- Ellen Palmer Allerton
- William Allingham
- Washington Allston
- Anne-Marie Alonzo
- Alta
- Al Alvarez
- Ivy Alvarez
- Julia Alvarez
- Moniza Alvi
Am–Az
- George Amabile
- Abdulkareem Baba Aminu
- Kingsley Amis
- A. R. Ammons
- Madhur Anand
- Ingrid Andersen
- Ethel Anderson
- Freddie Anderson
- J. Redwood Anderson
- Patrick Anderson
- Rod Anderson
- Victor Henry Anderson
- Michael Andre
- Bruce Andrews
- Kevin Andrews
- Ron Androla
- Ralph Angel
- Maya Angelou
- James Stout Angus
- Marion Angus
- J. K. Annand
- David Antin
- Antler
- Susanne Antonetta
- Brother Antoninus
- Raymond Antrobus
- Philip Appleman
- Richard Appleton
- Alexander Arbuthnot
- Walter Conrad Arensberg
- Rae Armantrout
- Simon Armitage
- Annie Armitt
- Richard Armour
- Jeannette Armstrong
- Peter Armstrong
- Tammy Armstrong
- David Arnason
- Craig Arnold
- Matthew Arnold
- Joanne Arnott
- K. O. Arvidson
- M. K. Asante
- John Ashbery
- Cliff Ashby
- Joseph Ashby-Sterry
- Thomas Ashe
- Renée Ashley
- Anne Askew
- Timoshenko Aslanides
- Herbert Asquith
- Thea Astley
- Tilly Aston
- Edwin Atherstone
- Cassandra Atherton
- Rupert Atkinson
- Tiffany Atkinson
- Margaret Atwood
- Dorothy Auchterlonie
- John Audelay
- W. H. Auden
- William Auld
- Joseph Auslander
- Paul Auster
- Alfred Austin
- Oana Avasilichioaei
- James Avery
- Tusiata Avia
- Margaret Avison
- Kofi Awoonor
- Ayo Ayoola-Amale
- Pam Ayres
- Sir Robert Aytoun
- William Edmondstoune Aytoun
- Nnorom Azuonye
- Jody Azzouni
B
Ba
- Ken Babstock
- Peter Babyon
- Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Bellamy Bach
- Joseph M. Bachelor
- Elizabeth Bachinsky
- Gabeba Baderoon
- Grace Shattuck Bail
- Alfred Bailey
- Jacob Bailey
- Kevin Bailey
- Philip James Bailey
- Joanna Baillie
- David Baker
- Henry Baker
- Marie Annharte Baker
- Peter Bakowski
- John Balaban
- Jesse Ball
- Addie L. Ballou
- Samuel Bamford
- John Banim
- Chris Banks
- Russell Banks
- Kaushalya Bannerji
- Anne Bannerman
- Frances Bannerman
- Lex Banning
- Ivy Bannister
- Shabbir Banoobhai
- Amiri Baraka
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- Mary Barber
- Ros Barber
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- John Barbour
- Alexander Barclay
- Leland Bardwell
- Serie Barford
- Richard Barham
- George Barker
- Les Barker
- Coleman Barks
- Clement Barksdale
- Joel Barlow
- Lady Anne Barnard
- Mary Barnard
- Djuna Barnes
- Stuart Barnes
- William Barnes
- Annie Wall Barnett
- Catherine Barnett
- Richard Barnfield
- Willis Barnstone
- John Barr
- Miriam Barr
- Laird Barron
- Bernard Barton
- John Barton
- Bertha Hirsch Baruch
- Gary Barwin
- Todd Bash
- Michael Basinski
- Shaunt Basmajian
- Ellen Bass
- Arlo Bates
- David Bates
- H. E. Bates
- Katharine Lee Bates
- Joseph Bathanti
- Dawn-Michelle Baude
- Bill Bauer
- Edward Baugh
- Charles Baxter
- James K. Baxter
- Arthur Bayldon
- William Baylebridge
Be–Bo
- Eric Beach
- Thomas Beach
- John Beaglehole
- Anne Beale
- Doug Beardsley
- James Beattie
- Jan Beatty
- Derek Beaulieu
- Francis Beaumont
- Bruce Beaver
- Samuel Beckett
- Joshua Beckman
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Ruth Bedford
- Jack Bedson
- Patricia Beer
- Ven Begamudré
- Brendan Behan
- Aphra Behn
- Sinclair Beiles
- Gerard Beirne
- Henry Beissel
- Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Ken Belford
- Erin Belieu
- J. J. Bell
- Julian Bell
- Marvin Bell
- Lisa Bellear
- Lesley Belleau
- Hilaire Belloc
- John Bemrose
- Gwen Benaway
- Hester A. Benedict
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- William Rose Benét
- Elizabeth Benger
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- Jim Bennett
- Louise Bennett-Coverley
- Robbie Benoit
- A. C. Benson
- Richard Berengarten
- Bill Berkson
- Charles Bernstein
- Robert Berold
- Anselm Berrigan
- Daniel Berrigan
- Ted Berrigan
- James Berry
- Wendell Berry
- John Berryman
- Charles Best
- Mary Matilda Betham
- Matilda Betham-Edwards
- Ursula Bethell
- John Betjeman
- Craven Langstroth Betts
- Elizabeth Beverley
- Judith Beveridge
- Helen Bevington
- L. S. Bevington
- Thomas Bibby
- Ruth Bidgood
- Lettie S. Bigelow
- Vonani Bila
- Robert Billings
- William Billington
- Margaret Bingham
- Laurence Binyon
- Hera Lindsay Bird
- Earle Birney
- Dora Birtles
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Morris Bishop
- Samuel Bishop
- Bill Bissett
- Sherwin Bitsui
- David MacLeod Black
- Sophie Cabot Black
- Paul Blackburn
- Thomas Blacklock
- Leigh Blackmore
- R. P. Blackmur
- Peter Bladen
- Isa Blagden
- Max Blagg
- Mark Blagrave
- Robert Blair
- William Blake
- Susanna Blamire
- Paddy Blanchfield
- Richard Blanco
- Don Blanding
- Robin Blaser
- Ann Eliza Bleecker
- Adrian Blevins
- John Blight
- Mathilde Blind
- Laurie Block
- E. D. Blodgett
- Benjamin Paul Blood
- Valerie Bloom
- Robert Bloomfield
- Elizabeth Blower
- Edmund Blunden
- Roy Blumenthal
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Robert Bly
- Ali Blythe
- Barcroft Boake
- Robert Boates
- Merlinda Bobis
- Louise Bogan
- Michelle Boisseau
- Christian Bök
- Osbern Bokenam
- George Henry Boker
- Eavan Boland
- Alan Bold
- Dermot Bolger
- Stephanie Bolster
- Edmund Bolton
- Ken Bolton
- Roger Bonair-Agard
- Horatius Bonar
- Elizabeth Bonhôte
- Sean Bonney
- Arna Wendell Bontemps
- Shane Book
- Luke Booker
- Kurt Boone
- Henry Ernest Boote
- Ivan Bootham
- Pat Boran
- Jenny Bornholdt
- Roo Borson
- Keith Bosley
- Anne Lynch Botta
- Gordon Bottomley
- David Bottoms
- Jenny Boult
- Francis William Bourdillon
- Arthur Bourinot
- John Philip Bourke
- Jane Bowdler
- George Bowering
- Marilyn Bowering
- Cathy Smith Bowers
- Edgar Bowers
- Tim Bowling
- Alex Boyd
- Louise Esther Vickroy Boyd
- Mark Alexander Boyd
- Kay Boyle
- Peter Boyle
- Samuel Boyse
- Virginia Frazer Boyle
Br–By
- Francis Brabazon
- Thomas Bracken
- Alison Brackenbury
- Anna Braden
- James Bradley
- Anne Bradstreet
- Robert Bradstreet
- E. J. Brady
- Kate Braid
- Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite
- Shannon Bramer
- Bertha Southey Brammall
- James Bramston
- Dionne Brand
- Di Brandt
- Charles Brasch
- Giannina Braschi
- Kamau Brathwaite
- Richard Brautigan
- John Jefferson Bray
- Diana Brebner
- Jean "Binta" Breeze
- Christopher Brennan
- Joseph Payne Brennan
- Michael Brennan
- Jane Brereton
- John Le Gay Brereton
- Nicholas Breton
- Brian Brett
- Lily Brett
- Ken Brewer
- Elizabeth Brewster
- Martha Wadsworth Brewster
- Breyten Breytenbach
- Diana Bridge
- Robert Bridges
- Kim Bridgford
- Robert Bringhurst
- Geoffrey Brock
- Eve Brodlique
- Alexander Brome
- David Bromige
- William Bronk
- Anne Brontë
- Branwell Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Rupert Brooke
- David Brooks
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Alice Williams Brotherton
- Audrey Alexandra Brown
- George Mackay Brown
- James Brown
- Jericho Brown
- Pam Brown
- Sterling Allen Brown
- Stewart Brown
- Thomas Edward Brown
- Wayne Brown
- Frances Browne
- Isaac Hawkins Browne
- Moses Browne
- Sir Thomas Browne
- William Browne
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Robert Browning
- Charles Tory Bruce
- Mary Grant Bruce
- Julie Bruck
- Dennis Brutus
- William Cullen Bryant
- Colette Bryce
- Bryher
- Dugald Buchanan
- George Buchanan
- Robert Williams Buchanan
- Vincent Buckley
- Charles Buckmaster
- David Budbill
- Andrea Hollander Budy
- Suzanne Buffam
- Charles Bukowski
- April Bulmer
- Rhoda Bulter
- Basil Bunting
- Anthony Burgess
- Haldane Burgess
- Andrew Burke
- Murdoch Burnett
- Joanne Burns
- Robert Burns
- Stanley Burnshaw
- John Burnside
- Sophia Burrell
- William S. Burroughs
- Mick Burrs
- Duncan Bush
- Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
- Aaron Bushkowsky
- Guy Butler
- Samuel Butler
- Ray Buttigieg
- Anthony Butts
- A. S. Byatt
- Kathryn Stripling Byer
- Witter Bynner
- Lord Byron