| WHITMAN | Walt ___, American poet known for the verse collection Leaves Of Grass (7) |
| WALTWHITMAN | American poet famous for the verse collection Leaves Of Grass (4,7) |
| SPENSER | Edmund ___ (c. 1552-99), English poet known for the epic poem The Faerie Queene (7) |
| ROETHKE | Theodore ___, American poet awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for his book The Waking |
| STATIUS | Roman poet known for his Silvae collection and Thebaid (7) |
| JUVENAL | Roman poet known for his 2nd century AD collection Satires (7) |
| ELECTRIC | I Sing the Body -; one of the poems from Walt Whitman's collection Leaves of Grass (8) |
| POETIZE | Take a turn for the verse |
| HERRICK | Robert -, lyric poet known for 1648 volume Hesperides (7) |
| EMERSON | Ralph Waldo _, American poet (7) |
| KHAYYAM | Poet known for his 6 (4,7) |
| OGDEN | _ Nash, 20th-century American poet known for his pithy and funny light verse (5) |
| DICKINSON | Emily ---, 19th Century American poet known for her unconventional use of metre and capitalisation (9) |
| LARKIN | Philip, author of the verse collection The Whitsun Weddings (6) |
| BASHO | Matsuo ?, 17th-century Japanese poet known for The Narrow Road To The Deep North |
| THOMPSON | Author who penned the verse collection Bog Myrtle and Peat and the trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford |
| PETRARCH | Francesco ?, 14th-century Italian poet known for the Rime Sparse (8) |
| LONGFELLOW | Henry Wadsworth ___, American poet best known for The Song of Hiawatha |
| NASH | Ogden ___: American poet remembered for his comic verse. (4) |
| POUND | Ezra _, American poet, author of Ripostes, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and The Cantos (5) |
