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 800 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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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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Luke Samuel Yates
Luke Samuel Yates is a poet and sociology lecturer based in Manchester. His first full collection is Dynamo (Smith Doorstop, 2023). He has also published two pamphlets The Flemish Primitives (Smith/Doorstop, 2015) and The Pair of Scissors That Could Cut Anything (The Rialto, 2012). His work has been widely published in magazines including The Moth, The North, The Rialto and Spelt.
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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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Bill Sanderson
Bill Sanderson has been a freelance illustrator for more than 40 years, working for magazines (including Time Out and The Listener), book publishers and designers. Creating jacket images for poetry books is a more recent development in his career and he has designed the covers for a number of collections by Felix Dennis.
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Peter Sansom
Peter Sansom is a poet, tutor and founder of the Poetry Business and the publisher Smith/Doorstop, both based in Sheffield. His publications include On the Pennine Way (Littlewood, 1988) and Everything You’ve Heard is True (Carcanet, 1990), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. For a while he was Writer in Residence with Marks & Spencer. He is also author of the influential book Writing Poems, first published by Bloodaxe in 1993
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Jacqueline Saphra
Jacqueline Saphra is a poet, playwright and teacher. Recent collections are All My Mad Mothers, shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot prize and Dad, Remember You are Dead (2019), both from Nine Arches Press. A Bargain with the Light: Poems after Lee Miller (2017) and Veritas: Poems after Artemisia (2020) were published by Hercules Editions. Her most recent play, The Noises was nominated for a Standing Ovation Award. One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets was published by Nine Arches Press in 2021. She teaches and mentors for The Poetry School.
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