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