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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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) was born in Calcutta. A Bengali polymath, he was a cultural giant who wrote poetry, prose, dramas and music and painted some 2,500 paintings. He wrote his first poems at the age of eight and in 1913 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first Asian person to win the honour.
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David Tait
David Tait lives in Guangzhou, China, where he works as a teacher. His pamphlet Love’s Loose Ends won the Poetry Business pamphlet competition in 2010. His 2014 collection Self-Portrait with The Happiness was shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. He was ‘house poet’ at the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre from 2010 – 2013.
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James Tate
James Tate (1943 – 2015) was an American poet. His first collection was The Lost Pilot (Yale University Press, 1967) an elegy for his father who was shot down over Germany in 1944 when Tate was only four months old. His subsequent poetry rarely drew on his own experiences and he became known for poems characterised by humour and his love of the tall story. He won many awards including the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for his Selected Poems.
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Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor is an Australian poet and academic. He was a founder and the first Chair of the South Australian Writers’ Centre. In 2005 his Collected Poems was published by Salt and further collection The unhaunting was published in 2009. His work often takes the form of short lyrics but he has also published several book-length poems including The Crystal Absences, the Trout in 1976.
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Pete Taylor
Pete Taylor is a poet, editor and former copywriter who now lives in Cheshire with his wife and two youngest daughters. His work has featured in PN Review, The Rialto and a variety of anthologies. His debut collection of poems and photographs – ting tong tang – was published in 2022 by Open Shutter Press, for whom he recently edited FLORA/FAUNA, a collection of nature poetry and photography. Pete has been shortlisted for the Ginkgo/AONB ‘UK Landscape’ Prize and the Wales Poetry Award, commended in the Acumen Prize, and longlisted in The Rialto/RSPB ‘Nature and Place’ Poetry Competition.
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Susan Taylor
Susan Taylor farmed in Lincolnshire until she was 30 and now lives with her husband on the southern edge of Dartmoor. Her writing draws its moods from the natural world and her most recent collection is A Small Wave For Your Form (Oversteps Books, 2012). She runs regular poetry workshops in Totnes where she lives.
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