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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Kenneth Steven
Kenneth Steven is a writer and painter who has published 14 collections of poetry. He has written and presented several poetry programmes for BBC Radio including a feature on St Kilda which won a Sony Award in 2006. His most recent collection is A Song Among The Stones (Polygon, 2012). He lives in Argyll.
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Judy Stevens
Judy Stevens trained as a fine artist and printmaker at Hornsey College of Art. She enjoys working with traditional wood engraving and linocut techniques used by artists such as Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden, as well as experimenting with modern computer-based approaches. She is inspired by the coastal scenery of Sussex and Suffolk and especially by life in Brighton where she is based.
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Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955) was a major American poet who in 1975 was described by the distinguished critic Harold Bloom as “the best and most representative American poet of our time” though his ground-breaking poetry only became generally recognised and acknowledged towards the end of his life. Whilst he was not a close member of any literary circles during his lifetime – his professional life was spent working in insurance law – his poems were strongly influenced by his life-long interest in modern literature and modern art more generally.
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Anne Stevenson
Anne Stevenson is an Anglo-American poet. She grew up and studied in America, but has since lived in Britain. Her several volumes of poetry include Stone Milk (2007). She lives in Durham and was awarded the Northern Rock Foundation Writers’ Award in 2002.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist and poet. His best-known novels include Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886). He suffered from ill health and travelled widely in search of healthier climates, finally settling in Samoa. His poetry collections include Ballads (1890) and A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), which contains some of his best-known poems.
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Matthew Stewart
Matthew Stewart works in the Spanish wine trade and lives between Extremadura and West Sussex. His critical writing has been published widely. His first collection The Knives of Villalejo was published by Eyewear in 2017 and a second full collection is due from HappenStance Press in November 2023.
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