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Discover Our Local Poets

Did you know that Tower Hamlets is rich in poetic history? It has seen resident poets and other poets that write poetry about Tower Hamlets!

Discover these poets and poems with the following selection. There are many more poets and poems that you can go and see at our Local Studies Library and Archives.

Bernard Kops

Bernard Kops was born in Stepney in 1926, the youngest of seven children to Dutch - Jewish parents. He is one of Europe's best - known Jewish playwrights who has written plays, novels, radio plays, television plays and poetry about London's East End.

Ebenezer C. Knowles

Lilian Bowes Lyon

Lilian Bowes Lyon lived her earlier life in Ridley Hall near Riding Mill, she was a cousin of the late Queen Mother.

C. C. Martindale