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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Stephen Watts
Stephen Watts is a poet and translator based in East London with family roots in the Italian Alps. He twice came second in the National Poetry Competition and has published numerous full collections, most recently Ancient Sunlight (Enitharmon, 2014). Republic of Dogs / Republic of Birds is a recent prose work, first written on a typewriter in the 1980s and lost for over 30 years before it was finally published by Test Centre Publications.
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Christine Webb
Christine Webb was born in the Midlands, but has lived in the south of England for much of her life. She has taught Drama part-time at university level, worked for an examination board and taught English to international graduate students. Her first collection, After Babel, was published in 2004.
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Julia Webb
Julia Webb is a poet, editor and creative writing tutor. Her first full poetry collection Bird Sisters was published by Nine Arches Press in 2016. Her poems have been published widely in magazines and in 2011 she won the Poetry Society Stanza competition with her prose poem ‘Lent.’ She runs the Norwich Poetry Book Group.
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John Wedgwood Clarke
John Wedgwood Clarke was born in Cornwall and trained as an actor before going on to study literature. His debut pamphlet Sea Swim was published by Valley Press in 2012, followed by a full-length collection, Ghost Pot. His second collection Landfill (Valley Press, 2017) was largely inspired by a residency at Scarborough’s municipal dump.
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Miriam Wei Wei Lo
Miriam Wei Wei Lo is a mixed-place-and-race writer who was born in Canada, grew up in Singapore, and has lived in Australia since she was nineteen. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland, but took a long detour from academia to raise her children and do the work of a country pastor’s wife in Margaret River, Western Australia. She currently lives in Walyalup (Fremantle) and teaches creative writing at Sheridan Institute. Her first collection, Against Certain Capture, won the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. She is working towards her next collection.
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Sarah Westcott
Sarah Westcott’s first collection, Slant Light, was published in 2016 by Pavilion Poetry, an imprint of Liverpool University Press. Sarah’s poems have appeared in magazines including The Poetry Review and Magma, and in anthologies including The Forward Book of Poetry 2017 – as well as on beermats, billboards and the side of buses.
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