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Biographies

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.

  • Katherine Mansfield

    Katherine Mansfield (1888 – 1923) was a prominent writer of short fiction born and brought up in New Zealand, who also wrote poetry. She moved to Great Britain in 1908, where she became close friends with a circle of writers which included D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, and published several collections of short stories as well as some poems. After contracting tuberculosis, she died aged 34 years.

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  • Arjunan Manuelpillai

    Arjunan Manuellpillai is a poet and creative facilitator based in London. His debut pamphlet Mutton Rolls was published by Out-Spoken Press in 2020 and a full collection Improvised Explosive Device is due in October 2002. He has worked extensively with community arts projects both in the UK and abroad.

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  • Carmen Marcus

    Carmen Marcus lives and works in Saltburn-by-the-Sea in North Yorkshire. A debut novel How Saints Die was published by Harvill Secker in 2017. Her poems have been widely published in magazines and anthologies and she was named as a BBC Radio 3 New Voice.  She has also been a guest lecturer at a number of universities across the UK.

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  • Walter de la Mare

    Walter de la Mare (1873 – 1956) was an English poet, short story writer, novelist and critic, who first worked as an office clerk, becoming a full-time writer in 1908. He is best remembered for his works for children, including his classic collection of children’s poetry, Peacock Pie.

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  • Lorraine Mariner

    Lorraine Mariner lives in London and works at the National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre. She has published two collections with Picador, Furniture (2009) and There Will Be No More Nonsense (2014) and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize twice, for Best Single Poem and Best First Collection, and for the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize. Her most recent publication is the poetry chapbook, Anchorage with Grey Suit Editions (2020).

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  • Tom Marioni

    Tom Marioni is an American artist and educator who was actively involved in the emergence of the Conceptual Art movement in the 1960s. He founded the Museum of Conceptual Art which operated in San Francisco from 1970 – 1984.  The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art was published by Crown Point Press in 1970. A memoir Beer, Art and Philosophy was published in 2004.

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