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, 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, 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
- 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
- William Allegrezza
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Harris Barham
- George Barker
- Les Barker
- Coleman Barks
- Joel Barlow
- Lady Anne Barnard
- Mary Barnard
- Djuna Barnes
- Stuart Barnes
- William Barnes
- 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
- Eric Baus
- 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
- 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
- Vonani Bila
- Robert Billings
- William Billington
- Margaret Bingham
- Laurence Binyon
- Hera Lindsay Bird
- Earle Birney
- Dora Birtles
- Elizabeth 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
- Lewis Blake
- 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
- 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
Br–By
- Francis Brabazon
- Thomas Bracken
- Alison Brackenbury
- 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
- Robert Bringhurst
- Geoffrey Brock
- Alexander Brome
- David Bromige
- William Bronk
- Anne Brontë
- Branwell Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Rupert Brooke
- David Brooks
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- 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
- Robert Budde
- 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
C
Ca–Ci
- Richard Caddel
- Caroline Caddy
- Charmaine Cadeau
- Adrian Caesar
- Stephen Cain
- Scott Cairns
- Alison Calder
- Angus Calder
- Alex Caldiero
- Frank Oliver Call
- Barry Callaghan
- Michael Feeney Callan
- Charles Stuart Calverley
- Robert Calvert
- Anne Cameron
- Norman Cameron
- Jason Camlot
- A. Y. Campbell
- Alistair Campbell
- Angus Peter Campbell
- David Campbell
- Elizabeth Campbell
- Joseph Campbell
- Meg Campbell
- Paul-Henri Campbell
- Roy Campbell
- Thomas Campbell
- William Wilfred Campbell
- Thomas Campion
- Melville Henry Cane
- Mary Wedderburn Cannan
- Moya Cannon
- Edward Capern
- Vahni Capildeo
- Natalee Caple
- Thomas Carew
- Henry Carey
- Robert Carliell
- Bliss Carman
- Clyde Carr
- Fern G. Z. Carr
- Jim Carroll
- Lewis Carroll
- Hayden Carruth
- A.J. Carruthers
- Ann Elizabeth Carson
- Anne Carson
- Ciaran Carson
- Elizabeth Carter
- Jared Carter
- William Cartwright
- Raymond Carver
- Alice Cary
- Phoebe Cary
- James Casey
- Juanita Casey
- Neal Cassady
- Cyrus Cassells
- Ana Castillo
- Lee Cataldi
- Nancy Cato
- Charles Causley
- Nick Cave
- George Cavendish
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Kate Cayley
- Susanna Centlivre
- Thomas Centolella
- Joseph Ceravolo
- John Chalkhill
- Gordon Challis
- Weyman Chan
- Catherine Chandler
- Elizabeth Margaret Chandler
- Diana Chang
- William Ellery Channing
- Arthur Chapman
- George Chapman
- Patrick Chapman
- Fred Chappell
- Craig Charles
- James Charlton
- Thomas Chatterton
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Angelico Chavez
- Syl Cheney-Coker
- Maxine Chernoff
- Kelly Cherry
- G. K. Chesterton
- Thomas Chestre
- James Wm. Chichetto
- Lydia Maria Child
- Billy Childish
- Marilyn Chin
- Staceyann Chin
- Eileen Chong
- Robert Choquette
- Lesley Choyce
- Margaret Christakos
- Evie Christie
- Ralph Chubb
- Mary Chudleigh
- Hubert Newman Wigmore Church
- Richard Church
- Charles Churchill
- John Ciardi
- Colley Cibber
- Charl Cilliers
- Sandra Cisneros
- Carson Cistulli
Cl
- Amy Clampitt
- John Clanvowe
- John Clare
- Dave Clark
- Douglas Clark
- Elizabeth Clark
- Emily Clark
- Ross Clark
- Tom Clark
- Thomas Clark
- Amy Key Clarke
- Austin Clarke
- George Elliott Clarke
- Gillian Clarke
- Jack Clarke
- Marcus Clarke
- Brian P. Cleary
- Brendan Cleary
- William Cleland
- Justin Clemens
- Benjamin Clementine
- Jack Clemo
- John Cleveland
- Michelle Cliff
- Wayne Clifford
- Lucille Clifton
- Caroline Clive
- Arthur Hugh Clough
Co–Cu
- Grace Stone Coates
- Florence Earle Coates
- Bob Cobbing
- Robbie Coburn
- Alison Cockburn
- Alice Rollit Coe
- Judith Ortiz Cofer
- Brian Coffey
- Fred Cogswell
- Leonard Cohen
- Matt Cohen
- Allison Hedge Coke
- Norma Cole
- Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch
- Aidan Coleman
- Victor Coleman
- Wanda Coleman
- Hartley Coleridge
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Don Coles
- Katharine Coles
- Edward Coletti
- Mary Collier
- Billy Collins
- John Collins
- William Collins
- Laurence Collinson
- Stephen Collis
- John Robert Colombo
- Glenn Colquhoun
- Padraic Colum
- Anna Olcott Commelin
- Anne Compton
- Wayde Compton
- Helen Gray Cone
- William Congreve
- Jan Conn
- Stewart Conn
- Paul Conneally
- Karen Connelly
- Kevin Connolly
- Susan Connolly
- Robert Conquest
- Tony Conran
- Henry Constable
- David Constantine
- Eliza Cook
- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
- Sophie Cooke
- Ina Coolbrith
- Dennis Cooley
- Clark Coolidge
- Afua Cooper
- Thomas Cooper
- Jack Cope
- Wendy Cope
- Judith Copithorne
- Robert Copland
- A. E. Coppard
- Julia Copus
- Richard Corbet
- Cid Corman
- Alfred Corn
- Adam Cornford
- Frances Cornford
- Francis M. Cornford
- John Cornford
- Joe Corrie
- Gregory Corso
- Jayne Cortez
- William Johnson Cory
- Louisa Stuart Costello
- Charles Cotton
- Anna Couani
- Anne Ross Cousin
- Dani Couture
- Thomas Cowherd
- Abraham Cowley
- Hannah Cowley
- Malcolm Cowley
- Dorothy Cowlin
- William Cowper
- George Crabbe
- Christine Craig
- Helen Craik
- Hart Crane
- Stephen Crane
- Richard Crashaw
- Isabella Valancy Crawford
- Robert Crawford
- Robert Crawford
- Richard Crawley
- Morri Creech
- Robert Creeley
- Caroline de Crespigny
- Walter D'Arcy Cresswell
- Louise Crisp
- Ann Batten Cristall
- Andy Croft
- Julian Croft
- Alison Croggon
- Jeremy Cronin
- M. T. C. Cronin
- Lynn Crosbie
- Camilla Dufour Crosland
- Zora Cross
- Aleister Crowley
- Andrew Crozier
- Lorna Crozier
- Helen Cruickshank
- Michael Crummey
- Julie Crysler
- Catherine Ann Cullen
- Countee Cullen
- Nancy Jo Cullen
- Patrick Cullinan
- E. E. Cummings
- Gary Cummiskey
- Allan Cunningham
- J. V. Cunningham
- John Cunningham
- Allen Curnow
- Margaret Curran
- Jen Currin
- Tony Curtis
- Tony Curtis
- James Cuthbertson
- Ivor Cutler
- Lidija Cvetkovic
- Kayla Czaga
D
Da–Do
- H.D.
- Cyril Dabydeen
- David Dabydeen
- Kalli Dakos
- Victor Daley
- Mary Dalton
- Pádraig J. Daly
- Raymond Garfield Dandridge
- Joseph A. Dandurand
- Achmat Dangor
- Samuel Daniel
- David Daniels
- Jeffrey Daniels
- George Darley
- Tina Darragh
- Keki N. Daruwalla
- Erasmus Darwin
- Elizabeth Daryush
- Robert von Dassanowsky
- Beverley Daurio
- William Davenant
- Guy Davenport
- Frank Davey
- Donald Davidson
- John Davidson
- Lucretia Maria Davidson
- Michael Davidson
- Donald Davie
- Alan Davies
- Deborah Kay Davies
- Hugh Sykes Davies
- Idris Davies
- John Davies
- W. H. Davies
- Nicholas Flood Davin
- Beatrice Deloitte Davis
- Jon Davis
- Norma Davis
- Tanya Davis
- Thomas Osborne Davis
- Edward Davison
- Peter Davison
- Bruce Dawe
- Kwame Dawes
- Tom Dawe
- Jeffery Day
- Sarah Day
- Cecil Day-Lewis
- Adriana de Barros
- Somerset de Chair
- Jean Louis De Esque
- Madeline DeFrees
- Celia de Fréine
- Ingrid de Kok
- Walter de la Mare
- Christine De Luca
- Sadiqa de Meijer
- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
- Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
- James Deahl
- Dulcie Deamer
- John F. Deane
- Joel Deane
- Patrick Deeley
- Madeline DeFrees
- Thomas Dekker
- Greg Delanty
- Kris Demeanor
- Barry Dempster
- Joe Denham
- John Denham
- C. J. Dennis
- John Dennison
- Tory Dent
- Enid Derham
- Thomas Dermody
- Toi Derricotte
- Heather Derr-Smith
- Michelle Desbarats
- Babette Deutsch
- James Devaney
- Mary Deverell
- Denis Devlin
- George E. Dewar
- Christopher Dewdney
- Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
- Mary di Michele
- Diane di Prima
- Ann Diamond
- Natalie Diaz
- Anne Dick
- Jennifer K Dick
- James Dickey
- Adam Dickinson
- Emily Dickinson
- Matthew Dickman
- Michael Dickman
- Robert Dickson
- Peter Didsbury
- Modikwe Dikobe
- Des Dillon
- John Dillon
- B. R. Dionysius
- Ray DiPalma
- Thomas M. Disch
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Isobel Dixon
- Sarah Dixon
- William Hepworth Dixon
- Angifi Dladla
- Tim Dlugos
- Kildare Dobbs
- Henry Austin Dobson
- Rosemary Dobson
- Stephen Dobyns
- Jeramy Dodds
- Robert Dodsley
- Pete Doherty
- Digby Mackworth Dolben
- Joe Dolce
- Don Domanski
- Magie Dominic
- Jeffery Donaldson
- John Donaldson
- John Donne
- David Donnell
- Timothy Donnelly
- Gerard Donovan
- Theo Dorgan
- Ed Dorn
- Catherine Ann Dorset
- Candas Jane Dorsey
- Mark Doty
- Clive Doucet
- Sarah Doudney
- Lucy Dougan
- Charles Montagu Doughty
- Lord Alfred Douglas
- Alice May Douglas
- Gavin Douglas
- George Brisbane Scott Douglas
- Keith Douglas
- Orville Lloyd Douglas
- Rita Dove
- Basil Dowling
- Finuala Dowling
- Gordon Downie
- Ellen Mary Patrick Downing
- Ernest Dowson
- Francis Hastings Doyle
- Kirby Doyle
Dr–Dy
- Michael Dransfield
- Jane Draycott
- Michael Drayton
- John Swanwick Drennan
- William Drennan
- Adam Drinan
- John Drinkwater
- William Drummond of Hawthornden
- William Henry Drummond
- John Dryden
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- I. D. du Plessis
- Klara du Plessis
- Norman Dubie
- Stephen Duck
- Louis Dudek
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Charles Gavan Duffy
- Maureen Duffy
- Alan Dugan
- Michael Dugan
- Sasha Dugdale
- Eileen Duggan
- Laurie Duggan
- Jas H. Duke
- Richard Duke
- Tug Dumbly
- Marilyn Dumont
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- William Dunbar
- Andrew Duncan
- Robert Duncan
- Camille Dungy
- Helen Dunmore
- Douglas Dunn
- Max Dunn
- Stephen Dunn
- Joe Dunthorne
- Paul Durcan
- Lawrence Durrell
- Anne Dutton
- Geoffrey Dutton
- Stuart Dybek
- Edward Dyer
- John Dyer
- Bob Dylan
- Edward Dyson
E
- Joan Adeney Easdale
- Evelyn Eaton
- Richard Eberhart
- Emily Eden
- Helen Parry Eden
- Stephen Edgar
- Lauris Edmond
- Russell Edson
- Richard Edwardes
- Dic Edwards
- Jonathan Edwards
- Rhian Edwards
- Terry Ehret
- Vic Elias
- Anne Elder
- George Eliot
- T. S. Eliot
- Elizabeth F. Ellet
- Charlotte Elliot
- David Elliott
- Jean Elliot
- Ebenezer Elliott
- George Ellis
- Royston Ellis
- Chris Else
- Rebecca Elson
- Crispin Elsted
- Claudia Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Chris Emery
- William Empson
- Paul Engle
- John Ennis
- Karen Enns
- D. J. Enright
- Riemke Ensing
- Theodore Enslin
- Louise Erdrich
- Ralph Erskine
- Clayton Eshleman
- Martín Espada
- Ramabai Espinet
- Jill Alexander Essbaum
- Maggie Estep
- George Etherege
- Michael Estok
- Jerry Estrin
- Anne Evans
- Christine Evans
- George Essex Evans
- Margiad Evans
- Mari Evans
- Sebastian Evans
- William Everson
- John K. Ewers
- Elisabeth Eybers
F
- Frederick William Faber
- Diane Fahey
- Ruth Fainlight
- Kingsley Fairbridge
- A. R. D. Fairburn
- Maria and Harriet Falconar
- William Falconer
- Padraic Fallon
- Catherine Maria Fanshawe
- U. A. Fanthorpe
- Patricia Fargnoli
- Eleanor Farjeon
- Fiona Farrell
- John Farrell
- John Farrell
- Michael Farrell
- Katie Farris
- Margaretta Faugères
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Brian Fawcett
- Elaine Feeney
- Elaine Feinstein
- Alison Fell
- Charles Fenerty
- Elijah Fenton
- James Fenton
- James Fenton
- Richard Fenton
- Gus Ferguson
- Samuel Ferguson
- Robert Fergusson
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Ferron
- George Fetherling
- Michael Field
- Henry Fielding
- Connie Fife
- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
- Annie Finch
- Peter Finch
- Robert Finch
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
- Joan Finnigan
- Jon Paul Fiorentino
- Catherine Fisher
- Roy Fisher
- Edward FitzGerald
- Judith Fitzgerald
- R. D. Fitzgerald
- Robert Fitzgerald
- Richard FitzPatrick
- Roderick Flanagan
- James Elroy Flecker
- Marjorie Fleming
- Giles Fletcher
- Giles Fletcher, the Elder
- John Fletcher
- John Gould Fletcher
- Phineas Fletcher
- F. S. Flint
- Alice Flowerdew
- Lionel Fogarty
- Jack Foley
- Mary Hannay Foott
- John Forbes
- Carolyn Forché
- Ford Madox Ford
- John Ford
- John M. Ford
- Robert Ford
- Mabel Forrest
- William Forrest
- Veronica Forrest-Thomson
- Gary Jeshel Forrester
- William Forster
- John Foulcher
- Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
- William Fowler
- Kate Fox
- Len Fox
- Janet Frame
- Ruth France
- Matthew Francis
- Robert Francis
- George Sutherland Fraser
- Gregory Fraser
- Raymond Fraser
- Benjamin Frater
- Brentley Frazer
- Grace Beacham Freeman
- John Freeman
- Nicholas Freeston
- Patrick Friesen
- Robert Frost
- Gwen Frostic
- Gene Frumkin
- Mark Frutkin
- Sheila Meiring Fugard
- Ethel Romig Fuller
- John Fuller
- Roy Fuller
- Mary Eliza Fullerton
- Alice Fulton
- Graham Fulton
- Robin Fulton
- Ulpian Fulwell
- Richard Furness
G
Ga–Go
- Frances Dana Barker Gage
- Dunstan Gale
- Kate Gale
- James Galvin
- Patrick Galvin
- Forrest Gander
- Robert Garioch
- Hamlin Garland
- Raymond Garlick
- Richard Garnett
- Jean Garrigue
- Samuel Garth
- George Gascoigne
- David Gascoyne
- Bill Gaston
- John Gay
- Ross Gay
- William Gay
- Alexander Geddes
- Leon Gellert
- W. R. P. George
- Dan Gerber
- Amy Gerstler
- Marty Gervais
- Charles Ghigna
- Monk Gibbon
- Reginald Gibbons
- Stella Gibbons
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- Alan Jackson
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- John La Rose
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Lo–Ly
- Douglas Lochhead
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Ma–Mi
- Rozena Maart
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Mo–Mu
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N
- Vladimir Nabokov
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O
- Joyce Carol Oates
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- Susan Paddon
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- Dorothy Porter
- Hal Porter
- Peter Porter
- Rochelle Potkar
- Robert Potter
- Charles Potts
- Ezra Pound
- B. W. Powe
- Craig Powell
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
- Claire Pratt
- E. J. Pratt
- Jack Prelutsky
- Karen Press
- Thomas Preston
- Ron Pretty
- Frank Prewett
- Nancy Price
- Richard Price
- Robert Priest
- F. T. Prince
- Thomas Pringle
- Matthew Prior
- Pauline Prior-Pitt
- Adelaide Anne Procter
- Bryan Procter
- Kevin Prufer
- J. H. Prynne
- Sheenagh Pugh
- Al Purdy
Q
- Andy Quan
- Francis Quarles
- Peter Quennell
- Sina Queyras
- Roderic Quinn
R
Ra–Ri
- William Radice
- Kenneth Radu
- Sam Ragan
- Jennifer Rahim
- Craig Raine
- Kathleen Raine
- Carl Rakosi
- Walter Raleigh
- James Ralph
- Raymond Ramcharitar
- Lesego Rampolokeng
- Allan Ramsay
- Theodore Harding Rand
- Dudley Randall
- Julia Randall
- Thomas Randolph
- Jennifer Rankin
- Claudia Rankine
- John Crowe Ransom
- Lennox Raphael
- Stephen Ratcliffe
- Angela Rawlings
- Tom Raworth
- Herbert Read
- Angela Readman
- James Reaney
- George Reavey
- Peter Redgrove
- Michael Redhill
- Henry Reed
- Ishmael Reed
- Kerry Reed-Gilbert
- Ennis Rees
- Lizette Woodworth Reese
- Deryn Rees-Jones
- James Reeves
- Nell Regan
- Alastair Reid
- Christopher Reid
- D. C. Reid
- Jamie Reid
- Azila Talit Reisenberger
- James Reiss
- Joseph Relph
- Robert Rendall
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Oliver Reynolds
- Charles Reznikoff
- Shane Rhodes
- Ernest Rhys
- Henry Rice
- Stan Rice
- Adrienne Rich
- Dorothy Richardson
- John Richardson
- Robert Richardson
- Edgell Rickword
- Elizabeth Riddell
- Lola Ridge
- Laura Riding
- Anne Ridler
- Denise Riley
- James Whitcomb Riley
- John Riley
- Peter Riley
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Maurice Riordan
- Alberto Ríos
Ro–Ru
- E. M. Roach
- Charles G. D. Roberts
- Emma Roberts
- Michael Roberts
- Edith Anne Robertson
- James Robertson
- Lisa Robertson
- Robin Robertson
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Lennox Robinson
- Mary Robinson
- Matt Robinson
- Roland Robinson
- Ajmer Rode
- Gordon Rodgers
- W. R. Rodgers
- Carmen Rodríguez
- Judith Rodriguez
- Theodore Roethke
- Janet Rogers
- Linda Rogers
- Samuel Rogers
- Isabella Whiteford Rogerson
- Matthew Rohrer
- Ethel Rolt Wheeler
- David Romtvedt
- Dilys Rose
- Peter Rose
- Raymond Roseliep
- Franklin Rosemont
- Penelope Rosemont
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Joe Rosenblatt
- Gabriel Rosenstock
- Laisha Rosnau
- Alan Ross
- Bruce Ross
- Stuart Ross
- W. W. E. Ross
- Christina Rossetti
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Jerome Rothenberg
- Nancy-Gay Rotstein
- Anne Rouse
- David Rowbotham
- Elizabeth Singer Rowe
- Nicholas Rowe
- Noel Rowe
- Stephen Rowe
- Graham Rowlands
- Richard Rowlands
- Samuel Rowlands
- Rosemarie Rowley
- Susanna Rowson
- Susanna Roxman
- Adam Rudden
- Muriel Rukeyser
- Charlotte Runcie
- George William Russell
- Nipsey Russell
- Brendan Ryan
- Gig Ryan
- Kay Ryan
- Michael Ryan
- Tracy Ryan
S
Sa–Si
- Charles Sackville
- Thomas Sackville
- Vita Sackville-West
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Maria Grace Saffery
- Lake Sagaris
- Nandini Sahu
- Arja Salafranca
- Trish Salah
- Nina Salaman
- Blanaid Salkeld
- Philip Salom
- John Salusbury
- Thomas Salusbury
- Fiona Sampson
- Sonia Sanchez
- Carl Sandburg
- Peter Sanger
- Charles Sangster
- Ann Sansom
- Clive Sansom
- Andrew Sant
- Robyn Sarah
- Jaydeep Sarangi
- Dipti Saravanamuttu
- May Sarton
- Siegfried Sassoon
- K. Satchidanandan
- Esther Saunders
- Jen Saunders
- Richard Savage
- Jaya Savige
- Leslie Scalapino
- Herman George Scheffauer
- Jacob Scheier
- Libby Scheier
- Bel Schenk
- Dennis Schmitz
- Pat Schneider
- Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
- Andreas Schroeder
- Philip Schultz
- James Schuyler
- Delmore Schwartz
- Stephen Scobie
- Gregory Scofield
- Alexander Scott
- Alexander Scott
- Dennis Scott
- Duncan Campbell Scott
- F. R. Scott
- Frederick George Scott
- Geoffrey Scott
- John A. Scott
- Margaret Scott
- Peter Dale Scott
- Tom Scott
- Sir Walter Scott
- William Bell Scott
- Gil Scott-Heron
- Ann Scott-Moncrieff
- E. J. Scovell
- Maurice Scully
- George Bazeley Scurfield
- Peter Seaton
- Charles Sedley
- Frederick Seidel
- Hugh Seidman
- Rebecca Seiferle
- Lasana M. Sekou
- Francis Sempill
- Robert Sempill
- Olive Senior
- Sipho Sepamla
- Mongane Wally Serote
- Nina Serrano
- Robert W. Service
- Vikram Seth
- Elkanah Settle
- Anna Seward
- Anne Sexton
- John W. Sexton
- Thomas Shadwell
- Kathy Shaidle
- William Shakespeare
- Tupac Shakur
- Otep Shamaya
- Eileen Shanahan
- Ntozake Shange
- Edward Shanks
- Jo Shapcott
- Thomas Shapcott
- Karl Shapiro
- Michael Sharkey
- William Sharp
- Brenda Shaughnessy
- Luci Shaw
- Owen Sheers
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- William Shenstone
- Nan Shepherd
- Francis Joseph Sherman
- Joseph Sherman
- Carol Shields
- Trish Shields
- Thomas Shipman
- James Shirley
- Fredegond Shove
- Sandy Shreve
- Penelope Shuttle
- Beau Sia
- Mary Sidney
- Philip Sidney
- Melanie Siebert
- Eli Siegel
- Robert Siegel
- Jon Silkin
- Ron Silliman
- Shel Silverstein
- Charles Simic
- Goran Simić
- Bren Simmers
- James Simmons
- Anne Simpson
- Louis Simpson
- Matt Simpson
- R. A. Simpson
- Bennie Lee Sinclair
- Iain Sinclair
- May Sinclair
- Sue Sinclair
- Tim Sinclair
- Burns Singer
- Marilyn Singer
- Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
- George Sipos
- Peter Sirr
- Lemn Sissay
- C. H. Sisson
- Ari Sitas
- Edith Sitwell
- Osbert Sitwell
- Sacheverell Sitwell
Sk–Sq
- Sonja Skarstedt
- John Skelton
- Robin Skelton
- Douglas Reid Skinner
- Myra Sklarew
- Ed Skoog
- Zoë Skoulding
- Peter Skrzynecki
- Kenneth Slessor
- Daniel Sloate
- Edward Slow
- Adam Small
- Carolyn Smart
- Christopher Smart
- Elizabeth Smart
- A. J. M. Smith
- Alexander Smith
- Bruce Smith
- Charlotte Turner Smith
- Clara Kathleen Smith
- Clark Ashton Smith
- Douglas Burnet Smith
- Iain Crichton Smith
- John Smith
- Malachi Smith
- Marc Smith
- Margaret Smith
- Michael Smith
- Michael V. Smith
- Patti Smith
- Rod Smith
- Ron Smith
- Steven Ross Smith
- Stevie Smith
- Sydney Goodsir Smith
- Tracy K. Smith
- Vivian Smith
- William Jay Smith
- Tobias Smollett
- W. D. Snodgrass
- Gary Snyder
- Karen Solie
- David Solway
- William Somervile
- Cathy Song
- Madeline Sonik
- Edward Sorenson
- Charles Sorley
- Gary Soto
- Carolyn Marie Souaid
- Raymond Souster
- William Soutar
- Caroline Anne Southey
- Robert Southey
- Robert Southwell
- Wole Soyinka
- Esta Spalding
- Heather Spears
- Alan Spence
- Lewis Spence
- Anne Spencer
- Bernard Spencer
- Thomas Edward Spencer
- Stephen Spender
- Edmund Spenser
- Leonora Speyer
- Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
- Eintou Pearl Springer
- Birk Sproxton
- J. C. Squire
- Geoffrey Squires
St–Sy
- William Stafford
- A. E. Stallings
- Jon Stallworthy
- Harold Standish
- Ann Stanford
- Frank Stanford
- George Stanley
- George Starbuck
- Carmine Starnino
- Nicolette Stasko
- C. K. Stead
- Peter Steele
- Richard Steere
- John Steffler
- Gertrude Stein
- Mattie Stepanek
- Ian Stephens
- James Stephens
- James Brunton Stephens
- George Stepney
- John Sterling
- Gerald Stern
- Ricardo Sternberg
- C. J. Stevens
- Wallace Stevens
- Richard Stevenson
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Margo Taft Stever
- Amanda Stewart
- Douglas Stewart
- Harold Stewart
- Shannon Stewart
- W. Gregory Stewart
- Trumbull Stickney
- John Stiles
- James Still
- Anne Stone
- Donna J. Stone
- Ruth Stone
- Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
- Edward Storer
- Randolph Stow
- Mark Strand
- Jennifer Strauss
- Sean Street
- Agnes Strickland
- Adelle Stripe
- Trumbull Stickney
- Donna J. Stone
- Billy Marshall Stoneking
- Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
- Edward Storer
- Eithne Strong
- Joseph Stroud
- Betsy Struthers
- John Struthers
- Jesse Stuart
- Abhi Subedi
- Sir John Suckling
- Julie Suk
- Andrew Suknaski
- Alan Sullivan
- Aloysius Michael Sullivan
- Rosemary Sullivan
- Maud Sulter
- Moez Surani
- Kamala Surayya
- Efua Sutherland
- John Sutherland
- Robert Swanson
- Robert Sward
- George Swede
- Matthew Sweeney
- Cole Swensen
- Karen Swenson
- May Swenson
- Jonathan Swift
- Todd Swift
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Randall Swingler
- Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal
- Bobbi Sykes
- Joshua Sylvester
- Arthur Symons
- John Millington Synge
- Arthur Sze
- George Szirtes
- Anne Szumigalski
T
- Eileen Tabios
- Proma Tagore
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Maria Takolander
- Francis W. Tancred
- Robert Tannahill
- Dorothea Tanning
- Allen Tate
- James Tate
- Emma Tatham
- Andrew Taylor
- Ann Taylor
- Bruce Taylor
- Edward Taylor
- Emily Taylor
- Heather Taylor
- Henry Taylor
- Henry S. Taylor
- Jane Taylor
- Rachel Annand Taylor
- Ruth Taylor
- Sara Teasdale
- Barry Tebb
- Fiona Templeton
- William Tennant
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Frederick Tennyson
- John Terpstra
- Elaine Terranova
- A. S. J. Tessimond
- Lucy Terry
- Souvankham Thammavongsa
- Celia Thaxter
- Ernest Thayer
- John Thelwall
- Sharon Thesen
- Colin Thiele
- Kai Cheng Thom
- William Thom
- Thomas the Rhymer
- Thomas of Hales
- D. M. Thomas
- Dylan Thomas
- Edward Thomas
- Elizabeth Thomas
- Lorenzo Thomas
- R. S. Thomas
- William Thomas
- Francis Thompson
- John Thompson
- John Reuben Thompson
- Edward William Thomson
- James Thomson
- James Thomson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Tim Thorne
- Russell Thornton
- Joseph Thurston
- Anthony Thwaite
- Michael Thwaites
- Chidiock Tichborne
- Thomas Tickell
- Matthew Tierney
- Mary Tighe
- Richard Tipping
- José Tlatelpas
- Nick Toczek
- Barbara Euphan Todd
- Ruthven Todd
- Mohamud Siad Togane
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Francis Tolson
- Melvin B. Tolson
- Charles Tomlinson
- Jean Toomer
- Charles Tompson
- Angela Topping
- Lola Lemire Tostevin
- Cyril Tourneur
- Ann Townsend
- Thomas Traherne
- John Tranter
- Elizabeth Treadwell
- Mark Tredinnick
- Rhea Tregebov
- Raymond D. Tremblay
- Roland Michel Tremblay
- Natasha Trethewey
- Calvin Trillin
- John Tripp
- Quincy Troupe
- Peter Trower
- Mark Truscott
- Dimitris Tsaloumas
- Charlotte Maria Tucker
- Eliza Dorothea Cobbe, Lady Tuite
- George Turberville
- Richard Marggraf Turley
- Gael Turnbull
- Charles Tennyson Turner
- Julian Turner
- Walter J. Turner
- Thomas Tusser
- Hone Tuwhare
- Violet Tweedale
- Chase Twichell
- Katharine Tynan
- John Tyndall
- Daniel Scott Tysdal
U
- Laura Ulewicz
- Jeff Unaegbu
- Unorthodox Australian Poet
- Jean Starr Untermeyer
- Louis Untermeyer
- John Updike
- Priscila Uppal
- Allen Upward
- Joan Ure
- David UU
- Amy Uyematsu
V
- Jean Valentine
- Valentine Vallis
- Cor van den Heuvel
- Mona Van Duyn
- Lin Van Hek
- Peter van Toorn
- Christopher van Wyk
- Henry Vaughan
- R. M. Vaughan
- Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden
- Reetika Vazirani
- Janine Pommy Vega
- Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford
- Helen Vendler
- Jumoke Verissimo
- Paul Vermeersch
- Katherena Vermette
- Jones Very
- Vicki Viidikas
- Peter Viereck
- José García Villa
- Pamelia Sarah Vining
- Vivian Virtue
- Garth Von Buchholz
- Brian Vrepont
- Prvoslav Vujcic
W
Wa–We
- Miriam Waddington
- Michael Wade
- Sidney Wade
- Fred Wah
- John Wain
- A. E. Waite
- Nayyirah Waheed
- Diane Wakoski
- Derek Walcott
- Anne Waldman
- George Waldron
- Keith Waldrop
- Rosmarie Waldrop
- Arthur Waley
- Alice Walker
- Margaret Walker
- Rob Walker
- Bronwen Wallace
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- Edmund Waller
- Tom Walmsley
- Agnes Walsh
- Catherine Walsh
- David Waltner-Toews
- Ania Walwicz
- Connie Wanek
- John Powell Ward
- Ned Ward
- Sarah Wardle
- Anna Laetitia Waring
- Emily Warn
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Crystal Warren
- John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley
- Meralda Warren
- Robert Penn Warren
- Thomas Warton
- Terry Watada
- Vernon Watkins
- George Watsky
- Rosamund Marriott Watson
- Samuel Wagan Watson
- Stephen Watson
- Thomas Watson
- William Watson
- Alison Watt
- Barrett Watten
- Isaac Watts
- Rebecca Watts
- Theodore Watts-Dunton
- Tom Wayman
- Alan Wearne
- Francis Webb
- Harri Webb
- Phyllis Webb
- John Webster
- Mary Morison Webster
- James Wedderburn
- John Wedderburn
- Robert Wedderburn
- Rebecca Wee
- George Weideman
- John Weier
- Hannah Weiner
- Robert Stanley Weir
- Marjorie Welish
- Zachariah Wells
- Viola S. Wendt
- Marjory Heath Wentworth
- William Wentworth
- Darren Wershler
- Charles Wesley
- Gilbert West
- Jane West
- David Wevill
Wh–Wy
- Philip Whalen
- Dawud Wharnsby
- Anne Wharton
- Gordon Wharton
- Herb Wharton
- Mary Whateley
- David Wheatley
- Phillis Wheatley
- Billy Edd Wheeler
- E. B. White
- Henry Kirke White
- James L. White
- Kenneth White
- Joshua Whitehead
- Bruce Whiteman
- Walt Whitman
- Isabella Whitney
- Zoe Whittall
- Reed Whittemore
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Brian Whittingham
- Christopher Whyte
- George Whyte-Melville
- Anna Wickham
- Les Wicks
- John Wieners
- Nissanka Wijeyeratne
- Richard Wilbur
- Dora Wilcox
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Jane Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
- Amos Wilder
- Charlotte Wilder
- Anne Wilkinson
- John Wilkinson
- William of Nassyngton
- William of Shoreham
- Aeneas Francon Williams
- Alfred Williams
- Anna Williams
- Athol Williams
- C. K. Williams
- David Gwyn Williams
- Donna Williams
- Emmett Williams
- Heathcote Williams
- Helen Maria Williams
- Hugo Williams
- Isaac Williams
- Jane Williams
- Jonathan Williams
- Miller Williams
- Oscar Williams
- Richard D'Alton Williams
- Rowan Williams
- Saul Williams
- Sherley Anne Williams
- William Carlos Williams
- Frank S. Williamson
- Elizabeth Willis
- James Wills
- Clive Wilmer
- Frank Wilmot
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
- Eleanor Wilner
- Alan R. Wilson
- Arthur Wilson
- Dede Wilson
- Edwin Wilson
- Florence Mary Wilson
- Peter Lamborn Wilson
- Sheri-D Wilson
- Christian Wiman
- Liz Winfield
- Rob Winger
- Sheila Wingfield
- Yvor Winters
- Jane Wiseman
- George Wither
- Charles Wolfe
- Humbert Wolfe
- Thomas Wolfe
- Theresa Wolfwood
- Jennifer Wong
- Nellie Wong
- Gwyneth Barber Wood
- George Woodcock
- Gregory Woods
- Joseph Woods
- Macdara Woods
- Lance Woolaver
- Dorothy Wordsworth
- William Wordsworth
- Philip Stanhope Worsley
- Sir Henry Wotton
- Carolyn D. Wright
- Carolyne Wright
- Charles Wright
- David Wright
- David McKee Wright
- Franz Wright
- James Wright
- Jay Wright
- Judith Wright
- Kirby Wright
- Robert Wrigley
- Lady Mary Wroth
- Thomas Wyatt
- Elinor Wylie
- Edward Alexander Wyon
X–Y
- Makhosazana Xaba
- Mitsuye Yamada
- Leo Yankevich
- Morgan Yasbincek
- J. Michael Yates
- W. B. Yeats
- Jean Yoon
- Monica Youn
- Andrew Young
- Augustus Young
- d'bi Young
- Douglas Young
- Edward Young
- Ellen Young
- Ian Young
- Kevin Young
- Marguerite Young
Z
- Matthew Zapruder
- Marya Zaturenska
- Robert Zend
- Benjamin Zephaniah
- Komninos Zervos
- David Zieroth
- Rachel Zolf
- Daniel Zomparelli
- Carolyn Zonailo
- Louis Zukofsky
- Fay Zwicky
- Jan Zwicky
Lists of English language poets by nationality
- List of Australian poets
- List of Canadian poets
- List of Irish poets
- List of English poets from India
- List of Nigerian poets
- List of South African poets
- List of poets from the United States