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Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay is a Scottish poet, novelist, and playwright, appointed Scots Makar in 2016 and noted for the 1991 collection The Adoption Papers.
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The top alternative to Jackie Kay in 2026 is Ted Hughes with a score of 9.3/10, followed by Robert Burns (8.8) and Carol Ann Duffy (8.7).
Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes was an English poet and children's writer, UK Poet Laureate from 1984 to 1998 and author of the 1970 sequence...
Robert Burns
Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist, author of Auld Lang Syne and a national literary figure whose first colle...
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet who became UK Poet Laureate in 2009, the first woman and first openly gay writer to h...
Rita Dove
Rita Dove is an American poet and former U.S. poet laureate who won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Thomas and Be...
Hugh MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid was the pen name of Scottish poet Christopher Murray Grieve, a Scots modernist known for A Drunk Man Loo...
Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald is an English poet whose river poem Dart won the 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize, and she became Oxford Professor of...
Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine is a Jamaican-born American poet and essayist whose 2014 book Citizen became a major work on race and ly...
Edwin Morgan
Edwin Morgan was a Scottish poet and translator, appointed the first Scots Makar, Scotland's national poet, in 2004 afte...
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo is a Muscogee Nation poet and musician, and in 2019 became the first Native American U.S. poet laureate.
Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes is an American poet known for formal invention, and won the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry for Light...
Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and memoirist who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Life on Mars and later s...
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage is an English poet, playwright, and translator, appointed UK Poet Laureate in 2019 after publishing the 1...
Billy Collins
Billy Collins is an American poet known for accessible, witty verse, and served two terms as U.S. poet laureate from 200...
Ada Limón
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Kathleen Jamie
Kathleen Jamie is a Scottish poet and essayist, appointed Scots Makar in 2021 and winner of the 2012 Costa Poetry Award...
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet from County Armagh, known for intricate wordplay and winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for...
Imtiaz Dharker
Imtiaz Dharker is a British Pakistani poet, artist, and filmmaker, awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014 for...
Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib is an American poet and cultural critic from Ohio, known for blending music criticism, memoir, and poet...
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is an American poet and essayist known for nature writing, including the 2020 illustrated essay co...
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...
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