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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Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West (1892 – 1962) was an English novelist and poet, as well as being a renowned gardener who helped design and create the famous gardens at Sissinghurst in Kent. Her poetry often celebrates the English landscape and her long poem ‘The Land’ is the best-known example of this. She was also the model for the character Orlando in Virginia Woolf’s novel of that title.
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Sarah Salway
Sarah Salway is a poet, novelist and journalist based in Kent. She’s a former Canterbury Laureate and currently helps to run reading groups around the country for the Royal Literary Fund. Her work has been published widely including in the Financial Times, Poetry London, the Rialto and commissioned for BBC Radio 4. Her last collection, Learning Springsteen on my Language App, was a joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize and published by Indigo Dreams.
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Jacob Sam-La Rose
Jacob Sam-La Rose was born in London. His poetry collection Breaking Silence (Bloodaxe, 2011) was shortlisted for several awards including the Forward Prize and his poems have been widely anthologised and published in journals. Jacob is actively involved in facilitating a range of creative writing and spoken word programmes in schools and arts centres across the UK.
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Ana Sampson
Ana Sampson grew up in Kent and studied English Literature at the University of Sheffield. After a career in publishing PR, she went on to edit her first anthology I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Michael O’Mara Books, 2009) which was the third best-selling poetry title of that year. Since then she has edited a number of highly-acclaimed anthologies, including most recently She is Fierce (Pan MacMillan, 2018). Ana has appeared on television and radio discussing books and reading, and is a passionate advocate of the anthology form.
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Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson was born in London and is a poet and translator. She has published several poetry collections, including most recently The Catch (Chatto 2016). Her early career as a violinist has a strong influence on her poetic voice, which is characterised by the musicality of her lines.
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Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967) was an American writer who distinguished himself in the fields of poetry, history, biography, fiction, and music. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry – the first for Cornhuskers in 1919 and the second for his Complete Poems in 1950. According to one critic it was Sandburg who ‘put America on paper.’
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