Authors
Joan Alcover
Joan Alcover (1854 - 1926) was born in Palma de Mallorca. He is a seminal figure in Catalan literature and Mallorca’s most celebrated poet. His poem 'La Balanguera' was set to music in 1926 and in 1996 it became the official anthem of Mallorca.
Laurence Binyon
Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) was considered by many of his contemporaries to be one of the leading poets of his generation. He was also an eminent art historian, with a specialist interest in Chinese and Japanese art. After studying at the University of Oxford he worked at the British Museum for forty years, latterly as Keeper of Prints and Drawings . . .
Mary Borden
Mary Borden (1886 - 1968) was born in Chicago, the daughter of a wealthy silver prospector who died when Mary was twenty, leaving her independently wealthy. She studied Liberal Arts at Vassar College in New York. In 1913 she moved to London and later that year was arrested during a Suffragette demonstration, having smashed a window of the Treasury. When war broke out in 1914 she used her wealth to establish a field hospital for French soldiers on the Somme . . .
John Burnside
John Burnside is one of the UK's foremost poets. His 2011 collection, Black Cat Bone, won both the Forward prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize . . .
Martyn crucefix
Martyn Crucefix's recent collections of poetry include The Lovely Disciplines (Seren, 2017); a re-imagining of Virgil's Aeneid, Cargo of Limbs (Hercules Editions, 2019); and Between a Drowning Man (Salt, 2023). His acclaimed translations of Rilke include Change Your Life: Essential Poems (Pushkin Press, 2024).
Jordi Doce
Jordi Doce is a Spanish poet whose latest collection in English is Master of Distances (2023). He has translated numerous English language poets in Spanish, including T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Anne Carson.
Nick Drake
Nick Drake is an award-winning poet, screenwriter and librettist. His poetry pamphlet Ghost Forest is published by Dare-Gale Press in 2026.
David Harsent
David Harsent is an acclaimed poet, librettist, novelist and script writer. In 2014 he won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Fire Songs. In 2012 he was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize for Night. In 2005 he received the Forward Prize for Legion.
Nicola Healey
Nicola Healey’s poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, Scientific American, Tools of the Trade: Poems for New Doctors (Polygon, 2022) and elsewhere. She was a runner-up in the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry 2020 and longlisted for the inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize 2021/2022. Nicola's debut pamphlet, A Newer Wilderness, was published by Dare-Gale Press in 2024.
Gregory Leadbetter
Gregory Leadbetter’s recent books of poetry include The Infernal Garden (Nine Arches press, 2025), Balanuve, with photographs by Phil Thomson (Broken Sleep, 2021) and Maskwork (Nine Arches Press, 2020). His extended poem Metal City was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2023.
Sylvie Jane Lewis
Sylvie Jane Lewis won the 2025 Bridport Young Writer Award and came third in the 2025 Bridport Poetry Prize. Grandmother’s House from Dare-Gale Press is her debut solo publication.
Fran Lock
Fran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and nine poetry collections, most recently Hyena! Jackal! Dog! (Pamenar Press, 2021).
MacGillivray
MacGillivray is the pen name of Kirsten Norrie. Under this name she has authored three collections of poetry. A central strand of her work excavates the imagined life and writings of the fictional Scottish modernist poet Kristján Norge. Her 2026 pamphlet for Dare-Gale Press is Until the Twilight Fails, the final part of the Kristján Norge Trilogy,
Patricia McCarthy
Patricia McCarthy won the National Poetry Competition in 2013. Her recent collections are Rockabye (Worple Press 2019) Whose hand would you like to hold (Agenda Editions, 2020) and Hand in Hand, (London Magazine Editions/Agenda Editions, 2022).
John Mole
Nicholas Murray
Nicola Nathan
Nicola Nathan has published widely in magazines, with poems in Poetry London, One Hand Clapping, The Edinburgh Review. Ambit, Agenda and Wild Court.
Her first poetry pamphlet, Tiny, was published by The Next Review in 2016.
Sean O'Brien
Sean O’Brien’s eleventh collection of poems, Embark, was published by Picador in 2022. His chapbook Impasse: for Jules Maigret appeared from Hercules Editions in May 2023. The recipient of numerous awards, including the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes...
Paul O'Prey
Paul O’Prey’s most recent collection of poems, Pilot Songs for a Phantom Island, is published by Dare-Gale Press in September 2024.
Paul O’Prey’s poetry includes Fleet (The Melos Press, 2021) and Mappa Mundi (The Melos Press, 2023).
John Pudney
John Pudney (1909-1977) grew up on a farm in Buckinghamshire and left school at sixteen to train as an estate agent and surveyor.
His first book of poems was published in 1933, shortly after which he worked for BBC Radio. At the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the Royal Air Force as an Intelligence Officer . . .
Stephen Romer
Stephen Romer is an acclaimed poet and translator. His most recent collections include Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems (2017) and a French bi-lingual collection containing more recent poems Le Fauteuil jaune (2021)...
Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe (1928 ‑ 2010) grew up in Nottingham, leaving school at the age of fourteen to work in the local Raleigh bicycle factory. In 1945 he joined the RAF as a wireless operator and was posted to Malaya, though after contracting tuberculosis he was invalided out . . .
CHARLES TOMLINSON
Charles Tomlinson was born in Stoke on Trent in 1927. He studied at Cambridge with Donald Davie and taught at the University of Bristol from 1956 until his retirement.
He published many collections of poetry as well as volumes of criticism and translation, and edited the Oxford Book of Verse in Translation (1980).
