David Harsent has published nine volumes of poetry. Legion, won the Forward Prize for best collection 2005 and was shortlisted for both the Whitbread Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His Selected Poems (2007), was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Night was published in January 2011. It was Poetry Book Society Choice for […]
Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City in 1951. She has published six books of poems: Peces de piel fugaz [Fish of Fleeting Skin] (1977), El ser que va a morir [The Being that is Going to Die] (1981), Tierra de entraña ardiente [Earth of Burning Entrails] (in collaboration with the painter Irma Palacios, 1992), […]
Armando Freitas Filho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1940. Throughout his career, he has experimented with different poetic practices that range from concrete poetry to poesia práxis to the marginal literary circles of the late 1970s mimeógrafo generation. His work reads through the urban imperatives of human landscapes in the city; a […]
Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf is one of the most exciting poets in the Somali diaspora. Although she has lived in exile in the UK for over twenty-five years, through recordings, TV and the internet her poems are well-known among Somalis both at home and abroad. A powerful woman poet in a literary tradition still largely […]
Kithaka wa Mberia (b. 1955) is a prolific and innovative poet who writes in free verse. He often employs innovative graphic forms, playing with the visuality of poetry. Wa Mberia has published four poem collections: Mchezo wa Karata (1997), Bara Jingine (2001), Redio na Mwezi (2005)and Msimu wa Tisa (2007). His poems became the first […]
The prize-winning poet, Reza Mohammadi – widely regarded as one of the most exciting young poets writing in Persian today – was born in Kandahar in 1979. He studied Islamic Law and then Philosophy in Iran before obtaining an MA in Globalisation from London Metropolitan University. His three collections of poetry have gained him many […]
Francisco Vilhena is an editor and translator. He writes short essays and translates from the Portuguese; his co-translation of Adelaide Ivánova’s the hammer and other poems was shortlisted for the 2020 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. He is a contributing editor to the White Review and serves on the advisory board of the Poetry Translation […]
Mohamed Al-Hassan Hummaid was a very popular Sudanese poet who wrote in dialect. He was killed in a car crash in Khartoum in March 2012.
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran and grew up on the Isle of Wight where she went to boarding school. After training at Drama Centre London, she worked as an actor in the UK and as a director at the Theatre Workshop Tehran and on the fringe in London. She started writing poetry while bringing […]
Ahmed Ismail Yusuf’s short stories have featured in many publications, amongst others, Bildhaan, an international journal of Somali studies and Mizna, an Arab-American literary magazine. He has a B.S. in creative writing and psychology from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and an MPA (Master of Public Affairs) from the University of Minnesota, where he is […]