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- Lascelles Abercrombie, (1881–1938)
- Arthur Talmage Abernethy (1872–1956), journalist, minister, scholar; first North Carolina Poet Laureate
- Harold Acton (1904–1994)
- Gilbert Adair (born 1944)
- Helen Adam (1909–1993)
- Arthur Henry Adams (1872–1936)
- Robert Adamson (1852–1902)
- Fleur Adcock (born 1934)
- Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
- Mark Akenside (1721–1770)
- Sidney A. Alexander (1866–1948)
- James Alexander Allan (1889–1956)
- Leslie Holdsworth Allen (1879–1964)
- William Allingham (1824/28–1889)
- Al Alvarez, (born 1929)
- Moniza Alvi, (born 1968)
- Kingsley Amis (1922–1995)
- Ethel Anderson (1883–1958)
- Bruce Andrews (born 1948)
- Maya Angelou (born 1928)
- Rae Armantrout (born 1947)
- Simon Armitage (born 1963)
- Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
- John Ashbery (born 1927)
- Thomas Ashe (1836–1889)
- Anne Askew, (1521–1546)
- Thea Astley (1925–2004)
- Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872)
- Margaret Atwood (born 1939)
- Dorothy Auchterlonie (1915–1991)
- W. H. Auden (1907–1973)
- Alfred Austin, (1835–1913)
- Pam Ayres (born 1947)
- Sir Robert Aytoun (1570–1638)
- William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865)
- Allan Ahlberg (born 1938)
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