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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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892) was Poet Laureate of the UK during most of Queen Victoria’s reign, and is remembered as one of the leading – perhaps the leading – poet of the day. A prolific author, some of his poems, such as ‘Ulysses’, ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (which recounts the events of a battle in the Crimean War) and the series of poems that make up ‘In Memoriam’ (written in memory of his friend, Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet engaged to Tennyson’s sister) remain cornerstones of nineteenth-century British poetry.
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Jean Tepperman
Jean Tepperman was born in Syracuse, New York. She is a poet, writer, campaigner and teacher and was very active in the anti-Vietnam War movement. Her poems have appeared in publications including Lion Rampant and The Old Mole, as well as in Sisterhood is Powerful (New York, Random House 1970).
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ASJ Tessimond
ASJ Tessimond (1902 – 1962) was a British poet born in Merseyside. He published three poetry collections in his lifetime but a comprehensive Collected Poems wasn’t published until 2010. His work has been widely anthologised, with many readers relishing his witty and humane evocations of life in the modern age.
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Laura Theis
Laura Theis’ work appears in Poetry, Oxford Poetry, Magma, Rattle, Aesthetica, iamb, etc. Her Elgin-Award-nominated debut how to extricate yourself (2020), an Oxford Poetry Library Book-of-the-Month, won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize. A Spotter’s Guide To Invisible Things (2023) received the Live Canon Collection Prize and the Society of Authors’ Arthur-Welton-Award. Other accolades include the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, Poets & Players Prize, Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, AM Heath Prize, and Mogford Prize. Her new collection Introduction to Cloud Care and her children’s debut Poems from a Witch’s Pocket are both forthcoming in 2025.
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Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953) was a leading Welsh poet and writer, many of whose poems remain very well known and popular. These include ‘Fern Hill’, ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ and ‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’. His play for voices, ‘Under Milk Wood’, is also widely known and loved.
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Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas (1878 – 1917) was an Anglo-Welsh writer of reviews, literary criticism, biography and fiction, who turned to poetry in 1914, and is best remembered for his evocative poems about the English countryside. He was killed in action in the First World War.
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