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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William Blake
William Blake (1757 – 1827) was a painter and poet who made a living as an engraver and illustrator. He spoke of having visions from an early age and was a nonconformist, associating with the leading radical thinkers of his day. His best- known collections were Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) printed in illustrated format reminiscent of illuminated manuscripts.
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Richard Blanco
Richard Blanco emigrated to America with his Cuban family as a child and has lived there ever since. He trained as an engineer before turning to poetry in the 1990s. He has published several full collections including most recently Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems (2023) as well as two memoirs. He has won numerous accolades for his work and has taught at several US universities.
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Emily Blewitt
Emily Blewitt is a Welsh poet born in Camarthen whose work has been widely published in journals such as Poetry Wales, The Rialto and The North. Her debut collection is This Is Not A Rescue (Seren, 2017), the title poem of which was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. In 2016 she completed a PhD at Cardiff University.
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Rosalind Bliss
Rosalind Bliss is an artist based in Derbyshire. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art, gaining a Diploma in mural painting. She works with oils, creating canvases and folding mural screens of rural landscapes and has more recently begun to specialise in wood engraving. Her work is characterised by a rhapsodic atmosphere in which trees and skies are full of movement and drama.
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Sara Boccaccini Meadows
Sara Boccaccini Meadows is an English artist, illustrator and textile designer now based in New York. She graduated from Leeds College of Art and takes inspiration from nature and from the small details of her everyday surroundings. Her patterns and prints are often quirky and whimsical, but always beautiful. She has also published a book about botanical painting.
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Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland is a highly-respected Irish poet, born in Dublin. She writes poetry, prose (including a memoir Object Lessons published in 1995), criticism and essays, and has taught at several universities in both Ireland and the USA. She is the author of several books of poetry, including a New Selected Poems published by Carcanet in 2013.
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