- Anne Ballard (Coordinator and Treasurer)
- Diana Bishop
- Fleur Bowers (Founder)
- Loulou Brown
- Annemarie Cooper
- Sarah Doyle
- Loretta Freeman
- Frances Galleymore
- Isabel Galleymore
- Chris Gray
- Eliza Gregory
- Miriam Halahmy
- Norbert Hirschhorn
- Ruth Ingram
- David Kabraji
- Anna Meryt
- Kate Moore
- Paul Norton
- Vicky Olliver
- Sam Patterson
- Robert Peake
- Norma Pollak
- Tim Reid
- Paul Stephenson
More about our Members
Anne Ballard is Co-ordinator and Treasurer of Highgate Poets. She is a retired family solicitor–a source of inspiration for much of her work. Her poems have been published in several magazines and been placed in a number of competitions: in particular Poetry on the Lake 2011. She looks forward to finding time to work on her first collection.
Sarah Doyle is a regular guest performer at poetry events in and around London, and has been a guest reader at the Torbay Poetry Festival. Her poetry has appeared in various publications and placed in several national poetry competitions, winning first place in the Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Prize 2011. Sarah is, with Allen Ashley, co-author of Dreaming Spheres: Poems of the Solar System.
Frances Galleymore’s recent writing unites the natural and human worlds with spiritual elements. Her poems have appeared in many magazines and she is preparing a first poetry collection. Frances is also an author and screenwriter and her sixth novel was published in 2011.
Isabel Galleymore recently completed an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews with a Distinction. Her poems, which often focus on ecology and environmental issues, have featured in magazines such as Poetry Review, Mslexia and will soon appear in The Rialto and Staple.
Miriam has published two collections of poetry, Stir Crazy (Hub Editions, 1994) and Cutting Pomegranates (David Paul, 2003). Her poetry is published widely, has been read on the radio and performed on stage. Miriam also writes fiction for children, teens and adults. Her cycle of three Young Adult novels, Hidden, Illegal, Stuffed, are published by Meadowside Books. She is also a writing mentor, journalist, reviewer and manuscript appraiser. Miriam has a special interest in supporting refugee and asylum-seeking writers through English PEN.
Norbert Hirschhorn is a public health physician, commended by President Bill Clinton as an “American Health Hero.” He lives in London and Beirut. He has published two collections: A Cracked River (Slow Dancer Press, London, 1999), and Mourning in the Presence of a Corpse (Dar al-Jadeed, Beirut, 2008), and appeared in numerous US/UK publications.
Anna has been writing poetry off and on all her life, publishing many single poems in anthologies. Anna likes to write poetry that is accessible, socio-political, and about ordinary life. A memoir and collection of poems is forthcoming.
Born in Scotland, Kate made her acquaintance with poetry early on but didn’t start writing it until 2009. Much of her inspiration arises from her work among marginalised people, as well as from the cities of her soul, Glasgow and London. Kate plans to begin submitting pieces for publication in 2012.
Robert Peake is an American poet who relocated to London in May 2011. His debut collection Human Shade was selected by Marvin Bell as part of the Lost Horse Press New Poets Series in America. His poems have appeared in North American Review, Poetry International, Iota and Rattle.
Paul Stephenson grew up in Cambridge and now lives between North London and Maastricht, juggling university work and poetry. He read at Ledbury in 201 and was highly commended in the Bridport prize for this poem ‘The Perforation Gauge’. Poems in magazines including Smiths Knoll, Magma, The North, Poetry London, The Wolf, Tears in the Fence, The Rialto and 14 Magazine. Most recently Paul has had 9 experimental poems included in the anthology ‘Adventures in Form‘, produced by Penned in the Margins.