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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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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Jim Stewart
Jim Stewart (1952 – 2016) was a Scottish poet and teacher based in Dundee. A collection of his poems was published posthumously by The Voyage Out Press. THIS: Tay Poems (2018) is informed by a love of the natural world and celebrates birds, trees, plants and insects in moments of quiet meditation.
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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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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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