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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Marsha Prescod
Marsha Prescod came to the UK from Trinidad as a child. Her first poetry collection was Land of Rope and Tory (Akira Press, 1985). She is also interested in science fiction and published The Afro-Saxon Chronicles in 2020. She lectures in Law at London South Bank University.
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Estelle Price
Estelle Price lives in St Albans. She is the winner of the 2021 Welsh Poetry Competition and the 2018 Book of Kells Writing Competition. She was published in 2022 by Nine Arches Press in Primers 6, a series for emerging poets. She writes from a feminist perspective on themes including her East End past, the body and the Bloomsbury Group. Her poetry has been twice long-listed in the National and placed/listed in the Bridport, Ver, Canterbury, London Magazine and other competitions.
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DA Prince
DA Prince is a poet and writer based in Leicestershire. Her first published poems appeared in weekly competitions in the New Statesman and Spectator. HappenStance Press subsequently published three full-length collections: Nearly the Happy Hour (2008); Common Ground (2014) which won the East Midlands Book Award 2015, and The Bigger Picture (2022).
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Mel Pryor
Mel Pryor is a British poet based near Cambridge. Her work has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies and her collection Small Nuclear Family was published in 2015. She won the 2015 Philip Larkin Prize and her short fiction appears in Best British Short Stories 2021.
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Meryl Pugh
Meryl Pugh is a poet who was born in Wales and is now based in London. Her first full collection Natural Phenomena was published by Penned in the Margins in 2018. She has also published several pamphlets, most recently Wife of Osiris (Verve Poetry Press, 2021). She is a Poetry School tutor on the MA in Writing Poetry course.
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Sheenagh Pugh
Sheenagh Pugh is a poet, novelist and translator who was born in Birmingham and now lives in Shetland. She has published two novels and several poetry collections, the most recent of which is Afternoons Go Nowhere (Seren, 2019). Her book Stonelight (Seren, 1999) contains her own poems alongside translations of Medieval and Renaissance poetry and won the Wales Book of the Year Award.
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