Mohammed Bennis Mohammed Bennis (b. 1948 in Fès, Morocco) is one of the Maghreb's most important poets alongside Adonis and Mahmud Darwisch. He was only 21 when he published his first collection of verse; now he has nearly a dozen books of poetry, as well numerous books of essays and translations (Bataille, Mallamé). Bennis writes in Arabic, not in French, which is far from being a matter of course in Francophone Maghreb. He says that he is obsessed by the future of the Arabic language. As well as working as a ... more
Olivia Bergdahl Olivia Bergdahl (born in 1989 in Göteburg, Sweden) won the 2007 Swedish Poetry Slam Competition when she was just seventeen years old. The following year she reached 4th place in the Poetry Slam World Cup. She has since toured Sweden, Europe and the USA and has received many awards, including the Sveriges Radios Novellpris. She writes for Swedish radio and has published a novel and a volume of verse. Publications (a selection):Efter ekot (novel). Ordfront Förlag 2015Demo (poems). Ordfront Förlag ... more Olivia Bergdahl c_Helene Ringberg
Caroline Bergvall Caroline Bergvall (born in Hamburg in 1962 of French and Norwegian parents) is one of the most highly-regarded contemporary conceptual poets. Her mutlilingual works, often created in collaboration with other artists, blur the boundaries between poetry, installation, performance and translation. Poet Charles Bernstein has described her work as a feast for the eyes, the ears and the mind. In books such as Drift or Meddle English she explores the fault lines between different languages and the frac ... more Caroline Bergvall (c) Tom Martin
Josefine Berkholz Josefine Berkholz (b. 1994 in Durham, North Carolina) grew up in Middle Franconia and Berlin. She has been writing since she could hold a pen, since she was 13 mostly poetry and Spoken Word. She had one of her biggest successes in the 2010 German-language Poetry Slam Championships Final, in which she came second. She made her debut with the lyrix literature competition in 2009, where she performed for the first time with other young writers. She then successfully took part in other youth competi ... more Josefine Berkholz © Ken Yamamoto
F. W. Bernstein F. W. Bernstein, born as Fritz Weigle in 1938 in Göppingen, lives in Berlin. He draws, writes poetry and short prose and is Professor Emeritus for Caricature and the History of Pictures at the Berlin University of the Arts. Together with Robert Gernhardt, Eckhard Henscheid, Friedrich Karl Waechter, Pit Knorr, Chlodwig Poth and Hans Traxler he is a founder member and Grand Master of the New Frankfurt School. He has contributed for many years to the satirical magazine Pardon and winner of among ot ... more F.W. Bernstein (c) Verlag Antje Kunstmann
Charles Bernstein The work of radical modernist Charles Bernstein (b. 1950 in New York) needs a slanted shelf in the bookcase of international contemporary poetry. As the guiding spirit of experimental poetry and reviver of the American long poem, Bernstein is at the same time icon and iconoclast. He breaks the painted images that he himself creates in his poems. His atonal, polyvalent texts are like the welded pastry containing frog-filled chocolates in one of his poems.Bernstein is also well-known as the editor ... more Charles Bernstein © Emma Bee Bernstein
Crispin Best Crispin Best, born in 1983 in London, United Kingdom, is a poet of the Internet. He lives and works in London. For his creative work he uses various portals and networks in the Internet and plays with digital possibilities. He posts his texts and videos on the web, from YouTube to instagram, to “make them accessible to as many people as possible”. He has performed in such places as The Active Space and Microscope Gallery, New York, RMIT First Site Gallery, Melbourne, and the Serpentine Gallery, ... more Crispin Best (c) privat
Abbas Beydoun Abbas Beydoun (born in 1945, near Sour, Lebanon) sees poetry as a laboratory for language experiments. He represents an avant-garde trend that has revolutionised Arabic poetry by developing the prose poem and has been a beacon for younger generations of poets.Beydoun's poetry, which now comprises more than a dozen collections, is characterised by simple, reduced language with complex and multi-layered images and metaphors. There is no unity or continuity of style in his work; he is constantly ex ... more
Marcel Beyer Marcel Beyer (born 1965 in Tailfingen, Germany) grew up in Kiel and Neuss and studied German, English and Literature at the University of Siegen. In 1992 he completed his degree with a paper on Friederike Mayröcker, whose collected prose and poetry he was later to edit. As a poet and novelist, Beyer is one of the most influential of contemporary German-speaking writers. His poetry is a polyphonic sounding-out of many different worlds of images and ideas in language that is always precise and a ... more
Rajendra Bhandari Rajendra Bhandari (born in Darjeeling, Nepal in 1956) has lived in Gangtok for more than 30 years and is one of the most important contemporary Nepalese poets. He is an associate professor of the Language and Literature of Nepal at Sikkim University in Gangtok, and has a doctorate in Nepalese Literature from the University of North Bengal. He has won many prizes for his collections of poetry. His verse is heavily influenced by his social environment and is noteworthy for its extraordinary rhythm ... more
Elisa Biagini Elisa Biagini (born in 1970 in Florence, ITALY) lives and works as a writer, translator and teacher of art history and creative writing in Florence. Her debut poetry collection, “Questi Nodi “ (1993) was very well-received. Two of her subsequent volumes are bilingual, with poems in both Italian and English. In all, she has published six books of verse, which have been translated in several languages including English, Spanish, French and German. She has also been published in many journals and a ... more
Stefano Dal Bianco Stefano Dal Bianco (born in 1961 in Padua, Italy) lives in Siena. he has published three highly-regarded collections of poetry in Italy, which are remarkable for their mastery of form. He says that rhythm is what stays. The subject-matter of his poetry is strongly autobiographical, but at the same time he looks for what is universal in individual experience. Stefano Dal Bianco also works as a translator and has translated many renowned poets (including Marianne Moore, Michael Hartnett, Wallace. ... more