Biographies
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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 over 850 historical and contemporary poets. In our pages you’ll find old favourites alongside twenty-first century voices – everyone from WH Auden to Belinda Zhawi. 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.-
Mohja Kahf
Mohja Kahf is a poet, novelist and scholar. She was born in Damascus, Syria and moved to the US with her family in 1971. Her poetry collections include Emails from Scheherazad (2003) and Hagar Poems (University of Arkansas Press 2016). Her work reflects both Syrian and American influences and she writes about the differences between the cultures of her home and adopted countries.
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Chitra Kalyani
Chitra Kalyani is a poet and writer based in New Delhi, India. One of her poems is forthcoming in the anthology Daydreamers by Urban Ivy Press. She is also working towards publishing her first collection of poetry.
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Sylvia Kantaris
Sylvia Kantaris (1936 – 2021) was a British-Australian poet who spent much of her life in Cornwall. She published seven poetry collections, of which the most recent is Lad’s Love (Bloodaxe, 1993). In 1986 she was appointed Cornwall’s first Writer in the Community. As well as writing poetry, she taught for the Open University and for the University of Exeter and had a special interest in French Surrealism.
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Kapka Kassabova
Kapka Kassabova is a poet and writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Bulgaria and lived in New Zealand before settling in Edinburgh, UK. Her first poetry collection was All Roads Lead to the Sea (Auckland University Press, 1997). Two further collections are jointly published by Auckland University Press and Bloodaxe: Someone else’s life (2003) and Geography for the Lost (2007).
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Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh (1904 – 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. His first collection, Ploughman and other poems was published in 1936. Other works include the novel Tarry Flynn (1948) and his long poem, ‘The Great Hunger’. He spent his early life farming in rural Ireland, which inspired much of his work, and later moved to Dublin.
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Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay was brought up in Glasgow. She has published several poetry collections including Darling: New and Selected Poems (2007) and Bantam (Picador, 2017). She has also written the novel, Trumpet (1998), and several collections of short stories. Her memoir, Red Dust Road, about meeting her Nigerian birth father, was published in 2010. She is the third modern Makar (National Poet of Scotland) and also has an MBE.
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