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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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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Kelley Swain
Kelley Swain is from Rhode Island; she cut her teeth as a writer in London and Oxford for over a decade and now lives in Tasmania. She is the author of three poetry collections, two novels and a memoir. Her work emphases the history of science and medicine, and she was one of the first three poets-in-residence at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in 2016. In 2019, poems from her first collection debuted as a song cycle, Endless Forms Most Beautiful. Her forthcoming novel, Ophelia Swam, is set in Oxford.
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Algernon Swinburne
Algernon Swinburne (1837 – 1909) was born in London and spent most of his childhood on the Isle of Wight. He was involved with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, after meeting Dante Gabriel Rosetti at Oxford University. A radical character, he was a poet, playwright, novelist and critic, who invented the poetic ‘roundel’ form. His books include three series of Poems and Ballads and Atalanta in Calydon (1865).
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Michael Symmons Roberts
Michael Symmons Roberts is the author of several collections of poetry, including Drysalter (2013), winner of both the Costa Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize for Poetry. He is also a novelist and librettist who has worked extensively with composer James Macmillan on operas, song cycles and choral works. He is a Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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