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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Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer (1931 – 2015) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011 and was one of the leading Swedish poets of his generation. He was born in Stockholm and worked for many years as a psychologist – a career that co-existed with his writing for much of his life. His first collection was 17 Poems published in 1954, which was followed by Windows and Stones in 1972 and two volumes of Collected Poems (2006 and 2011). His work has been translated into some 60 languages.
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Siriol Troup
Siriol Troup’s first full-length collection, Drowning up the Blue End, was published by Bluechrome in 2004 and her latest, No Names Have Been Changed, by Shearsman in 2017. She lives in London.
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HM Truscott
HM Truscott is a poet, editor and translator. Her work appears in magazines in the UK, US and Ireland, including Oxford Poetry, Magma and many others. She is a member of a book arts collective, The Bookness Collective, and is particularly interested in how a poem’s physical context affects the way that it’s read. Harriet currently lives in the rainy corner of Spain.
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Kostya Tsolakis
Kostya Tsolakis was born and grew up in Athens and now lives in London where he works as a poet and journalist. He is founding editor of harana poetry, the online magazine for poets writing in English as a second or parallel language. His debut pamphlet Ephebos was published by Ignition Press. His poetry has also been widely published in magazines.
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Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892 – 1941) was a Russian poet who published her first collection Evening Album when she was only 18. During her lifetime she wrote poems, verse plays, and prose pieces and she is considered one of the most significant poets of her generation. She lived through a turbulent time in Russian history and spent several years in exile. Having lost several members of her family, she took her own life at the age of 49.
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Julian Turner
Julian Turner (b. 1955) was educated at New College, Oxford and Goldsmith’s College, London. He has worked in the field of mental health, most recently as chief officer at Mind in Leeds. His collection Crossing the Outskirts (Anvil, 2002) was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize. Other collections include Orphan Sites (2006) and Planet-Struck (2011).
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