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