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Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach was a prominent South African poet writing in Afrikaans. His work is notable for its surreal imagery...

Surreal Southafrican Antiapartheid Afrikaans

8.7 Great

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Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald is a British poet known for her innovative blending of classical forms with contemporary themes and detaile...

Nature Classical Contemporary British

8.5 Great

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Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine is an American contemporary poet known for her innovative hybrid works exploring themes of race and iden...

American Contemporary Hybrid Race

8.4 Great

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Ingrid Jonker

Ingrid Jonker was a prominent 20th-century lyric poet writing primarily in Afrikaans. Her work is notable for its intens...

Lyric Tragic Southafrican Afrikaans

8.3 Great

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Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes is a contemporary American poet celebrated for his innovative use of form and language. His work frequent...

Black American Contemporary Formal

8.2 Great

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Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage is a contemporary British poet known for his grounded style reflecting Northern England life and culture....

Contemporary Northern British Laureate

8.2 Great

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Ada Limón

Ada Limón is a prominent contemporary American poet celebrated for her deeply personal and evocative verse exploring the...

Nature American Contemporary Laureate

8.1 Great

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Dennis Brutus

Dennis Brutus was a prominent 20th-century poet deeply involved in anti-apartheid activism. His work powerfully addresse...

Political Exile Southafrican Antiapartheid

8.1 Great

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Kathleen Jamie

Kathleen Jamie is a prominent contemporary poet from Scotland. Her work explores themes of nature, memory, and social co...

Nature Contemporary Essay Scottish

8.1 Great

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Keorapetse Kgositsile

Keorapetse Kgositsile is a prominent South African poet recognized for her powerful and politically charged verse. Her w...

Black Political Jazz Southafrican

8.0 Great

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Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay is a prominent contemporary poet born in Glasgow. Her work explores themes of identity, particularly concerni...

Contemporary Identity Scottish Laureate

8.0 Great

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Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet from County Armagh, known for intricate wordplay and winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for...

Contemporary Playful Formal Irish

7.9 Good

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Mongane Wally Serote

Mongane Wally Serote is a South African poet and anti-apartheid writer whose Third World Express won the 1993 Noma Award...

Black Modern Political Southafrican

7.8 Good

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Hanif Abdurraqib

Hanif Abdurraqib is an American poet and cultural critic from Ohio, known for blending music criticism, memoir, and poet...

Music American Contemporary Essay

7.5 Good

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Xi Chuan

Xi Chuan is a Chinese poet, essayist, and translator, associated with post-Misty poetry and known for intellectually exp...

Contemporary Experimental Chinese Essay

7.5 Good

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Takahashi Mutsuo

Takahashi Mutsuo is a Japanese poet and dramatist, born in 1937, noted for modernist verse that openly explored sexualit...

Contemporary Japanese Mythic Queer

7.5 Good

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Tawara Machi

Tawara Machi is a Japanese poet who renewed the tanka form with contemporary language in Salad Anniversary, a 1987 bests...

Contemporary Popular Japanese Tanka

7.5 Good

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is an American poet and essayist known for nature writing, including the 2020 illustrated essay co...

Nature American Contemporary Essay

7.4 Good

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Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire is a Somali British poet born in Kenya, named the first Young Poet Laureate for London in 2013 and known fo...

Contemporary British Diaspora Somali

7.4 Good

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Patience Agbabi

Patience Agbabi is a British poet and performer, selected for the 2004 Next Generation Poets and known for the Chaucer r...

Performance Contemporary British Chaucer

7.3 Good