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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Victoria Punch
Victoria Punch is a voice coach and musician based in Devon. She is curious about voice and identity, the limits of language and how we perceive things and her poetry comes from these explorations. She has been published in Poetry and Reliquiae and is about to be published in One Hand Clapping.
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Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin (1799 – 1837) is Russia’s most famous poet and is widely considered to be the founder of modern Russian literature. His first major verse narrative, the mock epic Ruslan i Liudmila (1820), is a faux-fairytale based on Medieval Russian history. Perhaps his most famous long poem is Eugene Onegin (1833) which took seven years to write. Strangely, the fate of its hero foreshadows that of Pushkin himself who also died in a duel.
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Justin Quinn
Justin Quinn is an Irish poet and critic who now lives in Prague and teaches at Charles University and the University of West Bohemia. His first collection was The ‘O’o’a’a’ Bird (Carcanet, 1995) and his most recent is Early House (Gallery Press, 2015). He co-founded the influential literary journal Metre which sought to promote internationalism in poetry and has also translated the work of the Czech poet Ivan Blatný.
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Shazea Quraishi
Shazea Quraishi was born in Pakistan, grew up in Canada and lived in Spain before settling in London where she now works as a writer, translator and creative writing facilitator. Her poetry has appeared in The Guardian, The Financial Times, Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. Her latest collection is The Art of Scratching (Bloodaxe, 2015).
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Genny Rahtz
Genny Rahtz is a poet and creative writer who spent much of her time in Yorkshire, particularly Hull and York, before moving to Oxford. She worked for the Open University for many years. Her poetry collections include Sky Burial (Flux Gallery Press, 2010).
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Craig Raine
Craig Raine was born in 1944 in County Durham and read English at the University of Oxford. One of the so-called ‘Martian poets’, he has published a number of acclaimed collections, including A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979), Rich (1984) and Clay, Whereabouts Unknown (1996). He gained a Cholmondeley Award in 1983 and the Sunday Times Writer of the Year Award in 1998. He is founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté and Professor Emeritus of New College, Oxford.
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