Ken Babstock
(Canada, 1970)
Ken Babstock is one of the most prominent young Canadian poets to begin publishing in …
Mohamed Bachkar
(Morocco, 1969)
Mohamed Bachkar was born in 1969 in Rabat, Morocco. He is a poet, writer, and …
Gabeba Baderoon
(South Africa, 1969)
Gabeba Baderoon (Cape Town, 1969) is an internationally published poet. Her work has …
Jan Baeke
(The Netherlands, 1956)
Besides being a poet and translator, Jan Baeke works for the Amsterdam Film Museum. In …
Krešimir Bagić
(Croatia, 1962)
Krešimir Bagić was born in 1962 in Gradište, a small town in Slavonia, eastern …
Bai Hua
(China, 1956)
Born in Sichuan province in 1956, Bai Hua seems to have decided from an early age to …
Amina El Bakouri
(Morocco, 1969)
Amina El Bakouri was born 1969 in Taza. She got her Ph.D in Arab literature from the …
H.H. ter Balkt
(The Netherlands, 1938–2015)
“Go home, Poetry, and take me with you,” H.H. ter Balkt writes in his …
Daniel Bănulescu
(Romania, 1960)
Daniel Bănulescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1960. After studying engineering, …
Israel Bar Kohav
(Israel, 1950)
Israel Bar Kohav was born in Israel, the grandchild of Russian immigrants to Ottoman …
Ahmed Barakat
(Morocco, 1960)
Ahmed Barakat was born in 1960 in Casablanca where he grew up, studied, and worked. He …
Porfirio Barba Jacob
(Colombia, 1883–1942)
Born in Antioquia, Miguel Ángel Osorio, his real name, died in Mexico, where he had …
Santiago Barcaza
(Chile, 1974)
Santiago Barcaza, born in Santiago, 1974, is a poet and musician. He is the recipient …
Navit Barel
(Israel, 1977)
Israeli poet Navit Barel, 36, was born in Ashkelon on Israel’s southern coast to …
Tamim al- Barghouti
(Palestine, 1977)
Tamim al-Barghouti was born in Cairo to an Egyptian mother, Radwa Ashour, and the …
Mourid Barghouti
(Palestine, 1944)
Mourid Barghouti, born in a village near Ramallah in 1944, can rightly be referred to …
Justyna Bargielska
(Poland, 1977)
Born in 1977, poet and novelist Justyna Bargielska has published seven poetry …
Benno Barnard
(The Netherlands, 1954)
Benno Barnard originates from Amsterdam, but has lived in Belgium for over thirty …
Maria Barnas
(The Netherlands, 1973)
Before she published her first collection of poetry, Twee zonnen (Two Suns, …
Roberto Baronti Marchiò
(Italy, 1959)
Roberto Baronti Marchiò was born in Rome in 1959, where he now lives. He teaches …
Linda Maria Baros
(Romania, 1981)
“Linda Maria Baros occupies a special place among young Romanian poets,” …
Simon Barraclough
(United Kingdom, 1966)
Simon Barraclough is one of the generation of poets who came out of the workshops of …
Eqrem Basha
(Macedonia, 1948)
Eqrem Basha was born in 1948 in Dibër, where he attended primary school. He studied …
Dirk van Bastelaere
(Belgium, 1960)
Dirk van Bastelaere debuted with the collection of verses, Vijf jaar (Five …
Ella Bat-Tsion
(Israel, 1954)
Ella Bat-Tsion began to publish her poetry, under the name Gabriella Elisha, at the …
Bruce Beaver
(Australia, 1928–2004)
Bruce Beaver, one of Australia’s least known great poets, was born an Aquarian on …
Philippe Beck
(France, 1963)
Philippe Beck made his debut in 1996 at the age of thirty-two with the collection …
Carlos Bedoya
(Colombia, 1951)
Carlos Bedoya is a poet, essayist, translator and radio music programmer. He studied …
Amy Beeder
(USA, 1965)
A former human rights observer in Haiti and Suriname, and a high school teacher in West …
Nazand Begikhani
(Iraqi Kurdistan, 1964)
Nazand Begikhani was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1964. She has been living in exile …
Bei Dao
(China, 1949)
Bei Dao began writing poetry in the early 1970s. He is seen as the figurehead of the …
Jo Bell
(United Kingdom, 1967)
Jo Bell is a unique force in British poetry, bringing a large personality and boundless …
Lisa Bellear
(Australia, 1961–2006)
Lisa Bellear was a formidable presence on the Australian arts scene, achieving national …
Ruy Belo
(Portugal, 1933)
Born in a small town in central Portugal, Ruy Belo received a law degree at the …
Avraham Ben Yitzhak
(Poland, 1883)
Avraham Ben Yitzhak was born in Przemysl in Galicia, Poland, and died in Israel.
Alex Ben-Ari
(USSR, 1973)
Alex Ben-Ari began writing poetry as a teenager and was first published after his army …
Mois Benarroch
(Morocco, 1959)
Mois Benarroch was born in Tetuan, (formerly Spanish) Morocco, in 1959 and came to …
Horacio Benavides
(Colombia, 1949)
Horacio Benavides has published eight books of poetry, the last two of which: Sin razón …
Gordana Benić
(Croatia, 1950)
Poet and journalist Gordana Benić was born in Split in 1950. She attended grammar …
Mohammed Bennis
(Morocco, 1948)
Born in Fez, Morocco in 1948. A major figure in Modern Moroccan poetry. Ph.D holder, …
Lev Berinski
(Israel, 2003)
Lev Berinski was born in Romania. His family fled east during the war and in 1945 …
Jay Bernard
(England, 1988)
Jay Bernard was born in London in 1988. She was a winner of the Poetry Society’s Foyle …
J. Bernlef
(The Netherlands, 1937–2012)
J. Bernlef has made his mark in just about every literary genre under the sun. He …
Ory Bernstein
(, 1936)

Robert Berold
(South Africa, 1948)
Robert Berold was born in Johannesburg in 1948, the oldest of three brothers. He …
Liz Berry
(United Kingdom, 1980)
Liz Berry is a new poet at the intersection of several current trends in UK poetry. Her …
Emily Berry
(United Kingdom, 1981)
Emily Berry was born in 1981 and, other than time at university in Leeds, is …
Judith Beveridge
(Great Britain, 1956)
Judith Beveridge was born in England in 1956 and migrated to Australia in 1960. She has …
Marcel Beyer
(Germany, 1965)
Beyer was born on November 23, 1965 in Tailfingen, and studied German and English …
Rajendra Bhandari
(India, 1956)
Rajendra Bhandari (born 1956) is a Nepali poet of repute. A Reader in Nepali at the …
Elisa Biagini
(Italy, 1970)
After having studied and taught for several years in the United States, Elisa Biagini …
Chaim Nachman Bialik
(Ukraine, 1873)
Israel’s national poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik, combined in a unique way his own wish for …
Stefano Dal Bianco
(Italy, 1961)
Stefano Dal Bianco was born on March 3, 1961 in Padua, where he lived until he moved to …
Vonani Bila
(South Africa, 1972)
The fifth in a family of eight children, Vonani Bila was born and grew up in …
Natalka Bilotserkivets
(Ukraine, 1954)
Western readers, Dutch, in particular, are well acquainted with the poetry of the …
Umar Bin Hassan
(USA, 1948)
Umar Bin Hassan was born in Akron, Ohio, into a poor black worker’s family. Already as …
Caroline Bird
(England, 1986)
Caroline Bird was born in Leeds in 1986, grew up in London, and is currently studying …
Elizabeth Bishop
(USA, 1911–1979)
Elizabeth Bishop was selected from our festival archives by the Poetry Foundation in …
Erez Biton
(Algeria, 1942)
Erez Biton, the 2015 Israel Prize laureate in poetry, was born in Oran, Algeria to …
Jean Bleakney
(United Kingdom, 1956)
Jean Bleakney was born in Newry, Co. Down and now lives in Belfast where she works in a …
Elisabeth Bletsoe
(United Kingdom, 1960)
“Elisabeth’s poetry is not just highly unusual, it is an anomaly. Although at times it …
Nico Bleutge
(Germany, 1972)
Nico Bleutge was born in 1972 in Munich. Between 1993 and 1998 he studied German …
Jaap Blonk
(The Netherlands, 1953)
Before poets began to mount platforms in numbers, towards the turn of the last century, …
Merlinda Bobis
(Philippines, 1959)
Filipino-Australian writer Merlinda Bobis has published in three languages (English, …
Kim Cheng Boey
(Singapore, 1965)
Kim Cheng Boey’s poetry memorialises the past as a way of understanding …
Paul Bogaert
(Belgium, 1968)
Already in his debut collection Welcome Hygiene (1996), Paul Bogaert showed that …
Andriy Bondar
(Ukraine, 1974)
Andriy Bondar is one of the most popular and, at the same time, one of the most unread …
Yves Bonnefoy
(France, 1923)
In 2005 for the first time in France a volume by a living poet was placed on the …
Piedad Bonnet
(Colombia, 1951)
Piedad Bonnet studied philosophy and literature at the Universidad de los Andes, …
Albert Bontridder
(Belgium, 1921)
Albert Bontridder is an architect and poet. He was on the editorial team for the …
Mark Boog
(The Netherlands, 1970)
Mark Boog was awarded the 2000 C. Buddingh’ Prize for new Dutch-language poetry for his …
Pat Boran
(Ireland, 1963)
Pat Boran was born in Portlaoise, Ireland, in 1963 and currently lives in Dublin. Prior …
Marianne Boruch
(USA, 1950)
In an interview with Brooke Horvath for Denver Quarterly, Marianne Boruch noted, …
Pieter Boskma
(Netherlands, 1956)
Pieter Boskma is a cosmic poet and has been since his first collections: a wide panoply …
Oscarine Bosquet
(France, 1964)
Oscarine Bosquet’s Present Participle is a call to act in language through …
Nadine Botha
(South Africa, 1979)
Nadine Botha was born in 1979 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and holds an Honours …
André du Bouchet
(France, 1924–2001)

Mohamed Boudouik
(Morocco, 1953)
Mohamed Boudouik was born in 1953 in Jrada, Morocco. He possesses one of the most …
Sargon Boulus
(Iraq, 1944–2007)
Sargon Boulus, of Assyrian descent, was born in the Assyrian enclave al-Habbaniyah …
Peter Boyle
(Australia, 1951)
Peter Boyle is an Australian poet living in Sydney. His first three collections of …
Anneke Brassinga
(The Netherlands, 1948)
Anneke Brassinga is the language wizard of Dutch poetry. Perhaps the special feeling …
Kamau Brathwaite
(Barbados, 1930)
Edward Kamau Brathwaite came to Britain in 1949, where he read history at Cambridge …
Volker Braun
(Germany, 1939)
Volker Braun was born in Dresden on the 7th of May 1939. After he finished school he …
Colm Breathnach
(Ireland, 1961)
Breathnach was born Cork City in 1961. He studied philosophy and Irish at UCC and now …
Alfred Brendel
(Austria, 1931)
Alfred Brendel is a pianist, renowned for his interpretations of Beethoven, Schubert, …
Lucie Brock-Broido
(USA, 1956)
In an interview with Carol Maso for BOMB magazine in 1995, Lucie Brock-Broido …
Joseph Brodsky
(USSR, 1940–1996)
Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled …
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
(USA, 1978)
Julian Talamantez Brolaski lives and works in Brooklyn, New York near the Gowanus …
David Brooks
(Australia, 1953)
From these particularswhat generality? Somehonesty of the heart perhaps, honest …
Pam Brown
(Australia, 1948)
Born in Victoria, growing up mainly in Queensland, Pam Brown has lived in Sydney since …
Andy Brown
(United Kingdom, 1966)
Andy Brown is Director of the Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. …
Tsead Bruinja
(The Netherlands, 1974)
Tsead Bruinja is a poet unafraid of delving into the alternative, the small and the …
Colette Bryce
(United Kingdom, 1970)
Born in Derry in 1970, Colette Bryce lived in London for many years before moving to …
C. (Cornelis) Buddingh’ 
(Netherlands, 1918–1985)
C. Buddingh’ (Dordrecht, 1918) is classic example of a minor poet. He was not an …
Geert Buelens
(Belgium, 1971)
Geert Buelens is a poet and Professor of Modern Dutch Literature at the University of …
Franco Buffoni
(Italy, 1948)
Born in Gallarate (Varese) in 1948, Franco Buffoni teaches Comparative Literature at …
Austin Bukenya
(Uganda, 1944)
Austin Bukenya is best known as a pioneering scholar in the discipline of oral …
Bulawayo poets
(Zimbabwe, 2010)
The following poets from Bulawayo are featured in the October 2010 issue of PIW …
Vlado Bulić
(Croatia, 1979)
Vlado Bulić writes both poetry and prose and is a widely read and well-regarded …
John Burnside
(United Kingdom, 1955)
John Burnside was born in Dunfermline, Fife, between the firths of Forth and Tay, in …
Gaston Burssens
(Belgium, 1896–1965)
Gaston Burssens was an odd man out in the world of Dutch-language poetry. As the author …
Jorge Bustamante García
(Colombia, 1951)
Poet, essayist, translator and geologist, Jorge Bustamante was born in Zipaquirá, …
James Byrne
(United Kingdom, 1977)
James Byrne is the founder and editor of the international poetry …
 

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