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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Florence Tweddell
Florence Tweddell (1824 – 1899 ) also known as Florence Cleveland was a Yorkshire dialect poet. In 1869 she published a pamphlet of five short rhymes to illustrate the North York dialect, which was followed by a similar pamphlet of Rhymes and Sketches to illustrate the Cleveland dialect. In 2009 the folk band Megson set the words of her dialect poem ‘Take Thyself a Wife’ in a song that gained widespread popularity.
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Deborah Tyler-Bennett
Deborah Tyler-Bennett is a poet and fiction writer. Her latest poetry collection is Napoleon Solo Biscuits (2015). A book of short fictions, Turned Out Nice Again, inspired by the music hall tradition, was published in 2013, followed by the sequel, Mice That Roared (2015) She is an experienced workshop leader and has worked as a poet for many national galleries and museums, including the Science Museum and the National Gallery.
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Jack Underwood
Jack Underwood is an active member of the British poetry scene. He teaches English and creative writing at Goldsmiths College in London and is also involved in editing and reviewing. His first collection Happiness was published by Faber in 2015 and is characterised by poems that are both tender and frank in their probing of emotion and philosophical ideas.
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Eloise Unerman
Eloise Unerman writes both poetry and video game narratives. She was awarded a Cuckoo Young Writers Award in the Northern Writers Awards 2017and in the same year was commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award. She has been published in Introduction X (The Poetry Business) and Pennine Platform, as well as several other magazines and anthologies. She is currently Poet Laureate of Barnsley.
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Suzannah V Evans
Suzannah V Evans is the winner of a 2020 Northern Writers’ Award from New Writing North and of the 2020 Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment. Her debut poetry pamphlet Marine Objects / Some Language was published in 2020, and her second pamphlet Brightwork is forthcoming in 2021, both with Guillemot Press. She was poet-in-residence at Underfall Yard, a working boatyard in Bristol, in 2019.
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Jean Valentine
Jean Valentine was an American poet who spent most of her life in New York City. Her collection Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965–2003 won a National Book Award and Break the Glass (2010) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She was the State Poet of New York from 2008 – 2010.
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