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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Rachel Rooney
Rachel Rooney is a former teacher who now specialises in writing for children. Her first book A Patch of Black (Macmillan, 2012) is a lyrical story, written to help children overcome their fear of the dark. The Language of Cat (Frances Lincoln, 2011) was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her work has been widely anthologised and she spends a lot of time reading her poems at Festivals and running workshops in schools.
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Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861 – 1933) was a published poet, lecturer, and orator. She was also the younger sister of former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of former First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt. She published five collections of poetry and an autobiography in her lifetime.
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Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen was born in 1946 in Harrow, Middlesex. He began studying medicine but soon changed to studying English Language and Literature at Wadham College, Oxford. He then worked for the BBC on children’s television programmes before publishing his first poetry collection for children in 1974. He was made Children’s Laureate in 2007, a title he retained until 2009. He presents Word of Mouth for BBC Radio 4.
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Isaac Rosenberg
Isaac Rosenberg (1890 – 1918) was an Anglo-Jewish poet and painter whose poetry is considered to be amongst the finest written about the First World War. He arrived in the trenches as a private in 1916 and ‘August 1914’ was the first of many poems that established his reputation. In 1918 he volunteered to return to the front after a retreat and was killed one hour later.
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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894) was a significant voice in Victorian poetry, the youngest member of a family of poets, Pre-Raphaelite artists and critics. She was deeply religious and wrote devout, romantic and children’s poetry, as well as religious prose works. One of her best known works is Goblin Market and other poems, published in 1862.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882) was a painter and poet, brother of Christina Rossetti. In 1848 he was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who rejected Victorian materialism and wanted to bring back into art what they saw as a pre-Renaissance purity. He worked on English translations of Italian poetry and published a volume of his collected poems in 1870. His long and widely-acclaimed sonnet sequence ‘House of Life’ appeared in Ballads and Sonnets (1881).
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