Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

male, deceased (1985)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, PoetryBookSociety, Academic of the University of Hull, St John's College, Oxford, Order of the Companions of Honour, FRSL
Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL, (9 August 1922 - 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He spent his working life as...
Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald

female, 43 years old
Oxford University, PoetryBookSociety, English women writer, English, Women poet, dart
Alice Oswald (born 1966) is an English poet. Oswald read Classics at Oxford University, has worked as a gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, and...
Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel

female, 63 years old
British women writer, Women poet, Zoological Society of London, Independent on Sunday, John Hunter, 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem…London Zoological Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, UK Poetry Society, Fellow of the London Zoological Society, PoetryBookSociety
Ruth Sophia Padel (born 8 May 1946) is a British classical scholar, poet and journalist. She came to prominence with a poetry column in the London...
Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah

female, 38 years old
Women poet, Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, children's writer, poet, Alumni of the University of Manchester, Trinity College, Cambridge…PoetryBookSociety
Sophie Hannah is a prolific, award-winning English-born poet and novelist. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity...
Pascale Petit

Pascale Petit

female, 56 years old
British women writer, Women poet, The Zoo Father, Heart of a Deer, ''The Zoo Father, The Wounded Deer Fourteen Poems After Frida Kahlo…PoetryBookSociety, Poetry London
Pascale Petit (born in Paris in 1953) is a poet and editor. She grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art...
Gillian Clarke

Gillian Clarke

female, 72 years old
Welsh poet who writes in English, second world war, Penarth, Academic of the University of Glamorgan, Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, PoetryBookSociety…Anglo-Welsh poetry
Gillian Clarke (born 8 June 1937) is a Welsh poet who writes in English. She was born and brought up in Cardiff and Penarth, though for part of the...
Leontia Flynn

Leontia Flynn

35 years old
Northern Irish, poet, belfast, Irish, These Days, PoetryBookSociety…Forward Poetry Prize
Leontia Flynn (born 1974) is an Irish poet born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Flynn won an Eric Gregory Award in 2001, and her first collection,...
Julia Copus

Julia Copus

female, 40 years old
British women writer, Women poet, Eric Gregory Award, PoetryBookSociety, Royal Literary Fund, Forward Prize
Julia Copus (born 16 July 1969 in London) is a British poet and radio dramatist. Her books of poetry include 'The Shuttered Eye' (1995), which won...
Andrew Waterman

Andrew Waterman

male, 69 years old
poet, Academic of the University of Ulster, Alumni of the University of Leicester, Alumni of the University of Oxford, University of Oxford, English…PoetryBookSociety
Andrew Waterman (born 1940) is an English poet. Born in London, Waterman was educated at the universities of Leicester and Oxford, then lectured in...