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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Hannah Stone
Hannah Stone has published a number of poetry books and collaborates with other poets and composers. She is poet-theologian for Leeds Church Institute, and convenes the poets-composers forum for the international Leeds Lieder Festival. She has won a number of awards, most recently first prize in the David Oluwale Memorial Association competition.
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Matthew Hedley Stoppard
Matthew Hedley Stoppard lives in Otley in West Yorkshire where he is the UK’s first official Town Poet. His first collection A Family Behind Glass (Valley Press, 2013) was a Guardian Readers’ Book of the Year. His poems have appeared in Butcher’s Dog, Iota, Magma, The Morning Star and Shearsman, and he has appeared on programmes for BBC Radios 3, 4 and 6. His second full collection The Garland King (Valley Press, 2020) explores the traditional customs and rituals of the working/labouring classes.
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Emma Storr
Emma Storr is a writer living in Yorkshire. Her poems have been widely published in magazines and anthologies and won prizes in local and national poetry competitions. Her debut pamphlet Heart Murmur was published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2019. In 2022, Fair Acre Press published Offcumdens, featuring 41 of Emma’s poems paired with Bob Hamilton’s black and white photographs of Yorkshire’s people, streets and landscapes. A new poetry collection is forthcoming from Indigo Dreams.
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Jane Sudworth
Jane Sudworth is a relative newcomer to the literary world. Possibly as an antidote to a career in medical microbiology, she has begun writing poetry that not only reflects on internal and external observations, but also, of course, on the inherent self-doubt that those observations expose. Jane Sudworth lives in North Yorkshire. She is an enthusiastic member of Scarborough Poetry Workshop.
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Joyce Sutphen
Joyce Sutphen is an American poet who was Minnesota poet laureate from 2011 – 2021. She has published several collections, from Straight Out of View in 1995 (which won the Barnard’s Women’s Poets Prize) to Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems (Nebraska University Press, 2019).
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Mandy Sutter
Mandy Sutter is a writer living in West Yorkshire. Her most recent poetry collection is Old Blue Car (Kettlebell Press, 2015). She writes a monthly gardening blog about her dad’s allotment, as well as short stories and memoir pieces which have been published in magazines and anthologies.
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