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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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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Rosie Storey Hilton
Rosie Storey Hilton is a poet and editor based in London. Her pamphlet Between Solstices appeared in 2022 and she is editor of the anthology Green Verse (Saraband, 2024).
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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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