Poets were those individuals who penned poems. They often wrote poems about death, which lead Gwen Cooper to believe that the poets would be "the ones who are really going to suffer" during Miracle Day, a world-wide event in which all of humanity became immortal. (TV: Dead of Night)
Many poets were visited by, and even travelled with, the Doctor, such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe, and William Shakespeare. (PROSE: The Pit, Managra, The Shadows of Avalon, The True and Indisputable Facts in the Matter of the Ram's Skull, The Deadstone Memorial, The Scarlet Empress, Apocrypha Bipedium, COMIC: Bat Attack!, A Groatsworth of Wit, AUDIO: The Kingmaker, TV: The Shakespeare Code)