| HEANEY | Author of poetry collections including Wintering Out (6) |
| LARKIN | Author of poetry collections including The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows; or, the name of a rural family created by H. E. Bates (6) |
| MCKUEN | Rod ?, US singer-songwriter; author of poetry collections Lonesome Cities and Listen to the Warm (6) |
| SMITH | Stevie -; author of poetry collections including A Good Time Was Had By All and Not Waving But Drowning (5) |
| AUDEN | W H ___, author of poetry collections Homage to Clio and The Shield of Achilles (5) |
| WILSON | Sir Angus -, author of The Old Men at the Zoo and short story collections including A Bit Off the Map and Such Darling Dodos (6) |
| FALCON | Bird of prey; on Mallorca the Peregrine and Kestrel variety are resident and Eleanora's returns in the spring after wintering in Madagascar (6) |
| THOMAS | Welsh author of poetry, the radio drama Under Milk Wood and the short story illustrated by Edward Ardizzone titled A Child's Christmas in Wales (6) |
| BELLOC | French-born English writer noted for the poetry collections The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) and Cautionary Tales for Children (1907) (6) |
| HUGHES | Poet Laureate from 1984-98 who penned collections including Crow, The Hawk in the Rain and Rain-charm for the Duchy (6) |
| RUSKIN | Victorian art critic whose teaching collection (including his study of a kingfisher) can be viewed at the Oxford University Ashmolean Museum (6) |
| PIFFLE | Collection including very loud rubbish (6) |
| SCAUPS | Blue-billed ducks sometimes wintering in a Scottish firth such as Forth, whose name, meaning "mussel beds", refers to their feeding ground (6) |
| IROBOT | 1950 story collection including "The Evitable Conflict" Voting Rights |
| SEXTET | Collection including extinct group |
| REID | Poet who edited Selected Letters of Ted Hughes and wrote books or collections including A Scattering, The Song of Lunch and Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs (4) |
| PLATH | Author of The Bell Jar and poems including Ariel, Sheep in Fog, Elm, Poppies in October and Wintering (5) |
| OVID | Author of the poetry collections Amores and Tristia |
| ABSE | Dannie, author of poetry volume Remembrance of Crimes Past (4) |
| YOUNG | Poet who wrote collections including The White Blackbird, Speak to the Earth and The Green Man and prose-study of rare British wild flora A Prospect of Flowers (5) |
