• Jackie Kay
• Dorothy Molloy
• Stevie Smith
• U. A. Fanthorpe
• Margaret Atwood
• Gillian Clarke
• Grace Nichols
• Kathleen Jamie
• Jean Sprackland
• Emily Jane Brontë
• Imtiaz Dharker
• Jane Weir
• Margaret Postgate Cole
• Mimi Khalvati
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Charlotte Mew
• Christina Georgina Rossetti
• Sylvia Plath
• Alice Oswald
• Elizabeth Bishop
• Maya Angelou
• Emily Dickinson
• P. J. Harvey
• Anne Boyer
• Courtney Peppernell
• Suzie Miller
• Hollie Mcnish
• Helen Dunmore

poetesses already own/checked out

• Sylvia Legris
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
• Sophia Thakur
• Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Translatrix: Nandana Dev Sen)
• Carol Ann Duffy
• Sappho (Translator: Willis Barnstone)
• Pam Ayres
• Louise Glück
• Daisy Lafarge
• Cynthia Miller
• Lavinia Greenlaw
• Warsan Shire
• Mary Jean Chan
• Marianne Morris
• Samantha Walton
• Francesca Lisette
• Emily Critchley
• Sophie Robinson
• Chrystos
• Emily Juniper
• Meena Kandasamy
• June Jordan
• Holly Pester
• Mary Oliver
• Amanda Corman
• Tessa Rose Chester
• Lavinia Greenlaw