Candlestick Press
Biographies
Here you can find out more about the huge range of poets we feature in our pamphlets and the artists whose work appears on our beautiful covers.
We’ve now published poems by almost 700 historical and contemporary poets. In our pages you’ll find old favourites alongside twenty-first century voices – everyone from WH Auden to Benjamin Zephaniah. Although our emphasis is on British poetry, you’ll also find Irish, American and Australian writers.
We hope these pages will encourage you to explore further the work of a poet you’ve enjoyed in one of our pamphlets.
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Brad Aaron Modlin
Brad Aaron Modlin is an American writer of both poetry and fiction. His collection Everyone At This Party Has Two Names (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2016) won the Cowles Poetry Book Prize. He teaches at the University of Nebraska.
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Dannie Abse
Dannie Abse (1923 – 2014) was born in Cardiff, Wales to a Jewish family. Although best known as a poet, Abse worked in medicine, and was a specialist at a chest clinic for over thirty years. In 2012 was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to poetry and literature.
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Bill Adair
Bill Adair is an award-winning singer-songwriter, based in Stirling, who performs at festivals and folk clubs throughout the UK and abroad. His CDs, Along the Miners’ Rows and Dusty Boots on a Gravel Road, combine his own compositions with interpretations of traditional Scottish ballads and Delta Blues. His first collection of poetry, Learning to Fly, was published in 2017 and his most recent volume, New Testament Wives, appeared in 2019.
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Fleur Adcock
Fleur Adcock (1934 – 2024) was born in New Zealand. She was an award-winning poet, who also wrote libretti and was a regular contributor to, and editor and translator of, poetry anthologies. She was awarded an OBE in 1996. Recent collections are Poems 1960-2000 (2000) and Glass Wings (2013), both published by Bloodaxe Books.
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Lizzie Adcock
Lizzie Adcock is an artist and textile designer based in Derbyshire. She creates pieces ranging from framed original artwork to textiles and screen- and block-printed fabrics. She also sculpts pewter buttons and decorations. Many of her designs are informed by her love of historical textiles.
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Kim Addonizio
Kim Addonizio is an American writer and the author of seven poetry collections, two novels, two short story collections and two books on writing poetry. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a National Book Award Finalist for her collection Tell Me. Her latest books are Mortal Trash: Poems (W.W. Norton) and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress (Penguin).
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