Ignatius T. Mabasa
(Zimbabwe, 1971)
Ignatius Tirivangani Mabasa is one of the better known of the post-independence writers …
Aifric Mac Aodha
(Ireland, 1979)
Aifric Mac Aodha was born in Dublin in 1979. Her first collection, Gabháil …
Catherine Phil MacCarthy
(Ireland, 1954)
Catherine Phil MacCarthy was born in County Limerick in 1954 and educated at …
Conarth Macheka
(Zimbabwe)
Conarth Macheka writes both poetry and short stories, and hopes one day to write a …
Nathaniel Mackey
(USA, 1947)
Born in Miami and raised in Southern California, Nathaniel Mackey is a poet, novelist, …
Michio Mado
(Japan, 1909–2014)
For the last half a century, literally everyone in Japan, of any age, has been familiar …
Panashe Madziva
(Zimbabwe)
Panashe Madziva, also known as Arcane, is a twenty-four-year old poet from central …
Chris Magadza
(Zimbabwe, 1939)
Christopher H. D. Magadza (1939) B. Sc., M. Phil. (London), Ph. D. (Auckland, New …
Valerio Magrelli
(Italy, 1957)
Valerio Magrelli (Rome, 1957) is the author of four poetry collections, for which he …
Mzi Mahola
(South Africa, 1949)
“Mahola’s tone is intensely private, usually meditated and somber; and his style has a …
Derek Mahon
(Ireland, 1941)
Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941 and studied French literature at Trinity …
Jennifer Maiden
(Australia, 1949)
Jennifer Maiden has been one of the most striking voices to emerge from a generation …
Cosmas Mairosi
(Mudzi, 1977)
I was born Cosmas Mairosi on 8th February, 1977 in Mudzi. My parents divorced when I …
Malathi Maithri
(India, 1968)
Malathi Maithri was selected by Tamil poet Kutti Revathi for the special edition of …
Touria Majdouline
(Morocco, 1960)
Touria Majdouline was born in 1960 in Settat, and is currently a teacher of Arabic in …
Ben Younes Majen
(Morocco, 1946)
Ben Younes Majen was born in 1946 in Oujda, Morocco. He is now living and working in …
Bharat Majhi
(India, 1972)
Bharat Majhi (born 1972) is recognised as a voice of growing promise and resonance in …
Gayatri Majumdar
(India, 1963)
Gayatri Majumdar (born 1963) writes poetry in English. She is founder-editor of The …
Vasyl Makhno
(Ukraine, 1964)
Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet in New York, not an outsider there any more, but a …
Zvonko Maković
(Croatia, 1947)
Zvonko Maković(1947), the poet and art-historian, has been awarded the coveted …
Lucas Malan
(South Africa, 1946–2010)
Born in Nylstroom on the 19th July 1946 in the Northern Transvaal, now known as …
Julián Malatesta
(Colombia, 1955)
A poet, actor and active cultural promoter, born in 1955 in Miranda, Cauca, Julián …
Branko Maleš
(Croatia, 1949)
Branko Maleš, poet, critic, essayist and columnist, was born in 1949 in Zagreb. In his …
Ivan Malkovych
(Ukraine, 1961)
An Ukrainian poet and publisher, Ivan Malkovych was born on May 10, 1961 in Nyzhniy …
Afrizal Malna
(Indonesia, 1957)
Afrizal Malna was born in Jakarta in 1957. He studied for a time at the Driyarkara …
David Malouf
(Australia, 1934)
Here you will find a generous selection of Malouf's poetry, stretching from his …
Chris Mann
(South Africa, 1948)
Chris Mann, a South African of English, Dutch and Irish descent, was born in Port …
Randall Mann
(USA, 1972)
Randall Mann’s poems are often set within the landscape of Florida or California. …
Danie Marais
(South Africa, 1971)
Danie Marais was born in Kimberley in 1971, went to school in Pretoria and studied at …
Loftus Marais
(South Africa, 1982)
Loftus Marais was born in 1982 in Paarl, a small town just a forty-minute drive from …
Marcela Parra
(Chile, 1981)
Marcela Parra is the author of Silabario/Mancha (published in Chile by Ediciones …
Márcio-André
(Brazil, 1978)
Márcio-André became the first radioactive poet in the world in 2007, when …
Dambudzo Marechera
(Zimbabwe, 1952)
Dambudzo Marechera was born in Rusape to a poor family. However, he won scholarships to …
Roni Margulies
(Turkey, 1955)
The work of the writer Roni Margulies is pre-eminently the voice of the individual in …
Álvaro Marín
(Colombia, 1958)
Álvaro Marín, who has won several prizes for his poetry, studied zootechnics and now …
Yorgos Markópoulos
(Greece, 1951)
Yorgos Markópoulos in his early poetry expresses the contrast between life in a modern …
Gonzalo Márquez Cristo
(Colombia, 1963)
A poet, fiction writer, essayist and publisher, Márquez Cristo has published four …
Vlado Martek
(Croatia, 1951)
Vlado Martek was born in Zagreb, and graduated from the University of Zagreb with a …
Patricia De Martelaere
(Belgium, 1957)
Patricia de Martelaere studied philosophy at the University of Louvain and obtained her …
Monica Martinelli
(Italy, 1966)
Monica Martinelli was born in Rome, where she still lives while working in the …
Salman Masalha
(Israel, 1953)
Salman Masalha was born in 1953 in the Arab town of Al-Maghar (in the Galilee, northern …
Adrian Matejka
(Germany, 1971)
Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany and grew up in California and Indiana. He …
Irena Matijašević
(Croatia, 1965)
In her poetry Irena Matijašević interweaves a mythological and bookish world …
Jennifer Matthews
(USA, 1976)
Jennifer Matthews, originally from Missouri, lives in County Cork. She writes poetry …
Bejan Matur
(Turkey, 1968)
Bejan Matur was born in eastern Turkey, in a provincial town with a predominantly …
Maung Chaw Nwe
(Burma, 1949–2002)
Maung Chaw Nwe was born in Rangoon in 1949. From an early age he lived in Pyay, …
Maung Pyiyt Min
(Burma, 1953)
Maung Pyiyt Min was born in 1953 in Rangoon. He began writing at high school, but it …
Maung Yu Py
(Burma, 1981)
Maung Yu Py was born in 1981 to Dr. Myint Soe and Daw Yee Yee Mar in Myeik, a …
Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
(Kenya, 1983)
Drawing from her musical background and her work as an actress, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo is …
Glyn Maxwell
(United Kingdom, 1962)
Glyn Maxwell’s poetry is noted for its everyday vocabulary, used in tight metrical …
Jamaal May
(USA, 1982)
Jamaal May’s first book, Hum (2013), won a Beatrice Hawley Award, an …
Bernadette Mayer
(United States, 1945)
An avant-garde writer associated with the New York School of poets, Bernadette Mayer …
Bongekile Joyce Mbanjwa
(South Africa, 1962)
Bongekile Joyce Mbanjwa was born in Pietermarizburg in 1962. She attended Zwartkop …
John McAuliffe
(Ireland, 1973)
John McAuliffe was born in 1973 and grew up in Listowel, Co Kerry. He studied at NUI …
Chris McCabe
(United Kingdom, 1977)
Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977, grew up there and studied for a degree in …
Thomas McCarthy
(Ireland, 1954)
Thomas McCarthy was born and raised at Cappoquin Co. Waterford. He began to publish …
Karen McCarthy Woolf
(United Kingdom)
The title poem of Karen McCarthy Woolf’s pamphlet – a Poetry Book Society …
John McCullough
(United Kingdom, 1978)
John McCullough was born in Watford in 1978 and grew up there during the eighties and …
Roger McGough
(England, 1937)
Roger McGough was born in Liverpool in 1937, and his career has been inextricably bound …
Campbell McGrath
(USA, 1962)
Born in Chicago to Irish-Catholic parents, McGrath earned his BA from the University of …
Medbh McGuckian
(United Kingdom, 1950)
Medbh McGuckian was born in 1950 in Belfast where she currently lectures in Creative …
Patrick McGuinness
(Tunisia, 1968)
Patrick McGuinness is that vanishing figure: the multi-lingual, multi-cultural, …
Heather McHugh
(USA, 1948)
Heather McHugh’s work is noted for its rhetorical gestures, sharp puns and …
Ian McMillan
(United Kingdom, 1956)
Ian McMillan is a poet and performer from Yorkshire, as well as a playwright, …
Andrew McMillan
(United Kingdom, 1988)
Andrew McMillan is one of a brilliant generation of young British poets in their …
Paula Meehan
(Ireland, 1955)
Paula Meehan was born in 1955 and raised in two famous working-class districts of …
Joshua Mehigan
(United States, 1969)
Joshua Mehigan grew up in upstate New York and received a BA from Purchase College and …
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
(India, 1947)
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (born 1947) is a poet and critic of repute. He is the author of …
Nitin Mehta
(India, 1944)
Born in 1944, Nitin Mehta is a senior Gujarati poet, critic and translator. His poetry …
Gilad Meiri
(Israel, 1965)
Gilad Meiri was born in Jerusalem to a father of Syrian Jewish descent and a mother …
Oreet Meital
(Israel, 1957)
The titles of Oreet Meital’s volumes of verse – Problems of Balance …
Liana Mejía
(Colombia, 1960)
Born in Medellín, Colombia, in 1960, Liana Mejía won the University of Antioquia’s IV …
Ahmed Mejjati
(Morocco, 1936)
Ahmed Mejjati was born in 1936 in Casablanca. His is one of the most powerful voices in …
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
(Portugal, 1919–2004)
Some poets make poems the way a builder builds a home – verse by verse, brick by …
E. M. de Melo e Castro
(Portugal, 1934)

Lauren Mendinueta
(Colombia, 1977)
Lauren Mendinueta was born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1977. She began writing in 1997 …
José Tolentino Mendonça
(Portugal, 1965)
Like Herberto Helder, but 35 years later, José Tolentino Mendonça was born in Madeira. …
Erik Menkveld
(Netherlands, 1959–2014)
Erik Menkveld liked for the duration of a poem to slink into the skin of people or …
Iman Mersal
(Egypt, 1966)
Iman Mersal was born in Mit Adlaw, a small village in the northern Nile delta in Egypt. …
Michèle Métail
(France, 1950)
The French poet Michèle Métail was born in Paris in 1950. She read German …
Joan Metelerkamp
(South Africa, 1956)
Joan Metelerkamp was born in 1956, and grew up with her three brothers in the …
Bart Meuleman
(Belgium, 1965)
Bart Meuleman is a playwright, writes essays on subjects such as politics and pop music …
Nontsizi Mgqwetho
(South Africa, Unknown)
Nontsizi Mgqwetho lived on the Witwatersrand goldfields in South Africa, but looked …
Máire Mhac an tSaoi
(Ireland, 1922)
Máire Mhac an tSaoi was born in Dublin in 1922. Her father, Seán …
Gcina Mhlophe
(South Africa, 1959)
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe was born on 24 October 1958 in Hammarsdale to a Xhosa mother …
Miroslav Mićanović
(Croatia, 1960)
The poet and essayist Miroslav Mićanović, born in Brčko, Croatia, graduated in Southern …
Hanny Michaelis
(The Netherlands, 1922–2007)
Hanny Michaelis was born in 1922 in Amsterdam, and her small but distinctive oeuvre has …
K. Michel
(The Netherlands, 1958)
K. Michel can hardly be said to be a prolific writer. Since his debut in 1989, Ja! …
Ljerka Mifka
(Croatia, 1943–2002)
In 1985 Ljerka Mifka was a guest at the Poetry International festival in Rotterdam. In …
Slavko Mihalic
(Croatia, 1928–2007)
Slavko Mihalic is one of the greatest Croatian poets of our time. Since his début in …
Dunya Mikhail
(Iraq, 1965)
Dunya Mikhail was born in Baghdad in 1965 and lived there until the authorities …
Kei Miller
(Jamaica, 1978)
Kei Miller is a linguistically inventive and erudite Jamaican poet living and working …
Ye Mimi
(Taiwan, 1980)
Ye Mimi studies at the Graduate Institute of Creative Writing and English Literature of …
Richard Minne
(Belgium, 1891–1965)
Richard Minne counts among Flanders’ most respected poets, but also among its …
Peter Minter
(Australia, 1967)
Since the mid 1990s, Peter Minter has caused a sensation in Australia through his …
Kamran Mir Hazar
(Afghanistan, 1976)
Kamran Mir Hazar is a prominent Hazara journalist, human rights activist and writer who …
Álvaro Miranda
(Colombia, 1945)
Alvaro Miranda, a poet, novelist and essayist of great verbal originality, was born in …
Rivka Miriam
(Israel, 1952)
When Rivka Miriam’s two-volume Collected Poems was issued in 2011, …
Agi Mishol
(Romania, 1946)
Possibly Israel's most popular living poet, Agi Mishol was born to Holocaust …
Efrat Mishori
(Israel, 1964)
Efrat Mishori, poet, essayist and doctoral student in literature at Tel Aviv …
Sudesh Mishra
(Fiji, 1962)
Sudesh Mishra, poet, playwright, short fiction writer and academic, was born in 1962 in …
Adrian Mitchell
(United Kingdom, 1932–2008)
“Joyous, acrid and demotic tumbling lyricist Pied Piper determinedly singing us away …
Debarati Mitra
(India, 1946)
A noted Kolkata-based Bengali poet, Debarati Mitra has published eight collections of …
Tony Mitton
(Tripolitania, 1951)
Tony Mitton was born in North Africa. At the age of nine he came to England and …
Tatsuji Miyoshi
(Japan, 1900–1964)
To many Japanese baby-boomers who were born within a decade or so after the end of …
Zolani Mkiva
(South Africa, 1974)
Zolani Mkiva was born into a poor Xhosa family in Idutywa, South Africa. The family …
Chris Mlalazi
(Zimbabwe, 1970)
Chris Mlalazi (1970) has published a short-story collection, Dancing with Life and …
Gudugwe Mlilo
(Zimbabwe, 1892–1966)
Imbongis (praise-singers) represent the traditional school and order of poets, …
Ange Mlinko
(USA, 1969)
Ange Mlinko is the author of two books, Matinées (Zoland Books, 1999) and …
Nils Christian Moe-Repstad
(Norway, 1972)
Nils Chr. Moe-Repstad (Kristiansand, 1972) intended to become a mountaineer, but life …
Titus Moetsabi
(Zimbabwe, 1963)
Titus Moetsabi read law at the University of Zimbabwe and currently works for a …
Bart Moeyaert
(Belgium, 1964)
Bart Moeyaert says he produces poetry only in driblets. More than as a poet, he is …
Goenawan Mohamad
(Indonesia, 1941)
Goenawan Mohamad was born in Batang, Central Java, on 29 July 1941. He wrote his …
Robab Moheb
(Iran, 1953)
“To be or not to be, there is no difference. But being without a ‘vision’ is what I …
Katalin Molnár
(Hungary, 1951)
In 1999 Katalin Molnár published her novel Lamour Dieu under the name of Kité …
John Montague
(USA, 1929)
John Montague was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1929. At the age of four he was sent to …
Mario Montalbetti
(Peru, 1953)

Myriam Montoya
(Colombia, 1963)
After a Masters in Latin American literature at the Sorbonne in 1994, Montoya embarked …
Kobus Moolman
(South Africa, 1964)
Kobus Moolman was born in 1964, and currently lives in Pietermaritzburg. He has …
Martin Mooney
(United Kingdom, 1964)
Martin Mooney was born in Belfast to parents of a mixed religious background, and grew …
Alan Jude Moore
(Ireland, 1973)
Alan Jude Moore was born in Dublin and began publishing poems at turn of the millennium …
Kim Moore
(United Kingdom, 1981)
Kim Moore was born in Leicester and moved to Cumbria in 2004, where she now lives and …
Els Moors
(Belgium, 1976)
With her 2006 debut, Er hangt een hoge lucht boven ons (There is a tall sky …
Fatiha Morchid
(Morocco, 1958)
Fatiha Morchid was born on March 14, 1958. She received her doctorate in medicine in …
Shachar Mario Mordechai
(Israel, 1975)
Shachar Mario Mordechai was born in Haifa and grew up in Kiryat Bialik, a small …
Esther Morgan
(United Kingdom, 1970)
Esther Morgan is the author of three books of poetry, of which the third, Grace, …
David Morley
(United Kingdom, 1964)
David Morley, an ecologist and naturalist by background, is one of the most …
Sinéad Morrissey
(Ireland, 1972)
Historically attuned and touchingly personal, imaginatively wide-ranging and …
Helen Mort
(United Kingdom, 1985)
Helen Mort was born in Sheffield in 1985. As a child, she loved language in general and …
Valzhyna Mort
(Belarus, 1981)
Valzhyna Mort was born in 1981 in Minsk, Belarus. Her first book, I’m as Thin …
Brian Moses
(United Kingdom, 1950)
Brian Moses was the first real live children's poet I ever met. He visited the …
Emmanuel Moses
(Morocco, 1959)
In the foreword to Emmanuel Moses’s Selected Poems, translator Kevin Hart …
Isabella Motadinyane
(South Africa, 1963–2003)
Isabella Motadinyane was born in 1963 in Mofolo Central, Soweto. She completed classes …
Tswarelo Mothobe
(Zimbabwe)
Tswarelo Mothobe (a.k.a. Tswa) says, “I believe poetry is what we feel and what …
Seitlhamo Motsapi
(South Africa, 1966)
Seitlhamo Motsapi’s poetry has been widely published both on-line and in print. It has …
Abdelilah Mouissi
(Morocco, 1964)
Abdelilah Mouissi is a Moroccan poet, novelist and researcher. He is on the board of …
Erín Moure
(Canada, 1955)
Although Erín Moure was born in Calgary, she is known as a Montréal poet. …
Ziya Movahed
(Iran)

Brane Mozetič
(Slovenia, 1958)
Brane Mozetič is a poet, writer, translator and editor who graduated in …
S.E.K. Mqhayi
(South Africa, 1875–1945)
Samuel Edward Krune Loliwe Ngxekengxeke Mqhayi was born in Gqumashe in Alice, Transkei, …
Tari Mtetwa
(Zimbabwe, 1982)
Tarisai Witness Mtetwa was born at St Augustine’s Mission near Mutare, and had a …
Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali
(South Africa, 1940)
Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali was born in Kwabhanya (Vryheid), KwaZulu-Natal in 1940. After …
Elizabeth Muchemwa
(Zimbabwe)
Elizabeth R.S. Muchemwa (a.k.a. Zaza Muchemwa) is a poet, theatre writer and director …
Panchali Mukherji
(India, 1973)
Panchali Mukherji was born in Calcutta, India in 1973. She was educated in India and …
Paul Muldoon
(Ireland, 1951)
I first met Paul Muldoon in 1984 at an almost intimate reading in University College …
Petra Müller
(South Africa, 1935)
Petra Müller was born in 1935 in the small enclave of Botrivier, where her father was …
Charles Mungoshi
(Zimbabwe, 1947)
Born into a farming family in 1947, Charles Mungoshi was raised in the Chivhu area of …
Chandrakanta Murasingh
(India, 1957)
Born in 1957, Chandrakanta Murasingh is one of the best-known poets from the Northeast …
Ion Mureşan
(Romania, 1955)
Asked whether too much poetry is being written today, Ion Mureşan replied that …
Gerry Murphy
(Ireland, 1952)
Gerry Murphy was born in Cork in 1952. After dropping out of university in the early …
Richard Murphy
(Ireland, 1927)
Richard Murphy was born eighty years ago in the West of Ireland into a Protestant …
Aidan Murphy
(Ireland, 1952)
Aidan Murphy was born in Cork in 1952. He lived and worked for many years in London, …
Les Murray
(Australia, 1938)
“Religions are big slow poems, while most poems are short, fast religions.” – Les …
Vaidehi
(India, 1945)
Vaidehi is the pen name of Janaki Srinivasa Murthy. Born in 1945, she published her …
Blessing Musariri
(Zimbabwe, 1973)
Blessing Musariri’s relationship with poetry began in junior school after signing …
Alvaro Mutis
(Colombia, 1923)
Alvaro Mutis was born in Bogotá, Columbia. His father was a diplomat, posted at one …
Santiago Mutis Durán
(Colombia, 1951)
If something stands out in the poetry of Santiago Mutis Durán, it is his strong feeling …
Togara Muzanenhamo
(Zambia, 1975)
Togara Muzanenhamo was born in the Zambian city of Lusaka and spent his childhood on a …
Ticha Muzavazi
(Zimbabwe, 1975)
Trust Mutekwa, alias TICHA MUZAVAZI (teacher/talker) is a poet inspired by nature and …
Mya Kabyar
(Burma, 1974)
Mya Kabyar was born in 1974 in Palewa, Chin state. He grew up and finished high school …
Mybruthazkeepa
(Zimbabwe, 1982)
Born Ngonidzashe Enos Tapiwa in March 1982 – MYBRUTHAZKEEPA started writing poetry at …
Eileen Myles
(USA, 1949)
Eileen Myles is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction, and …
Jan H. Mysjkin
(Belgium, 1955)
Jan H. Mysjkin, poet and writer, leads a semi-nomadic existence between addresses in …
 

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