Various Poets Faber Poetry Diary 2026

The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are among the finest of their generation. The Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list. Victoria Adukwei Bulley Simon Armitage George Barker Emily Berry William Blake Mary Jean Chan John Clare Gillian Clarke Wendy Cope Julia Copus Stephen Crane John Donne T.S. Eliot Matthew Francis Lavinia Greenlaw Thomas Hardy Seamus Heaney Gerard Manley Hopkins Ted Hughes Ishion Hutchinson Ben Jonson John Keats Zaffar Kunial Philip Larkin D.H. Lawrence Lachlan Mackinnon Ange Mlinko Daljit Nagra Sylvia Plath Camille Ralphs Richard Scott William Shakespeare Percy Bysshe Shelley Stevie Smith Wislawa Szymborska Edward Thomas Derek Walcott Walt Whitman William Wordsworth W.B. Yeats