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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Peter Redgrove
Peter Redgrove (1932 – 2003) was a major British poet who also wrote prose, novels and plays. He was a prolific writer, publishing over 30 collections of poetry. A Collected Poems was published by Cape in 2012 and contains over 500 pages of work. He was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1996.
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Deryn Rees-Jones
Deryn Rees-Jones was born in Liverpool and has strong connections with North Wales. She published her first poetry collection The Memory Tray in 1995. She has gone on to publish several more collections, including most recently Burying the Wren (Seren, 2012). Her work And You, Helen (Seren, 2014) is a collaboration with the artist Charlotte Hodes about the wife/widow of Edward Thomas.
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James Reeves
James Reeves (1909 – 1978) wrote around 30 books of poetry, short stories and anthologies for adults and children. His children’s book, The Wandering Moon (1950), was illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, with whom he formed a lifelong collaboration and friendship. His Collected Poems was published in 1974 and he was also known as a literary critic and broadcaster. Faber have recently published an anthology of his poems in their ‘Faber Finds’ series.
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Christopher Reid
Christopher Reid was born in 1949 and is the author of a number of award-winning poetry collections, most recently Nonsense and also including Arcadia (1979), Two Dogs on a Pub Roof (1996) and in 2009, A Scattering, which won that year’s Costa Best Book of the Year Award. He also writes poetry for children. From 1991 – 1999 he was poetry editor at Faber and Faber. 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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Louisa Rhodes
Louisa Rhodes is a young writer based in South Yorkshire. She is a member of Hive South Yorkshire and her poem ‘Yew Tree’ was first published in the anthology Wild Poetry (Hive South Yorkshire, 2017) which contains poems inspired by flowers and plants. She also writes fiction and a blog.
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Hugh Ribbans
Hugh Ribbans trained at Canterbury College of Art where he specialised in relief printmaking. He now produces woodcuts and linocuts, mixing heavily grained wood – often driftwood – and lino in his prints. His subjects are frequently animals and birds, using a stylised treatment much influenced by ethnic art and his graphic background. He has exhibited at the Barbican Gallery, the National Print Exhibition, the Printmakers Council Open, The Society of Wood Engravers and the Society of Wildlife Artists.
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