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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Morag Williams
Morag Williams is a painter and illustrator based in Nottingham. After studying fine art in Moscow, she moved to Nottingham Trent for further studies. Her paintings explore our relationship with an ever-growing footprint on the natural world. Her work includes a mural commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Sea Turtle monument in Guyana. She has also illustrated all Guyana’s known turtles for the World Wildlife Fund.
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Emily Wills
Emily Wills lives in Gloucestershire where she works as a GP. She won the Frogmore prize in 2012 and 2013. She is the author of two collections, Diverting the Sea (2000) and Developing the Negative (2008), and a pamphlet, Unmapped (2014), all published by The Rialto.
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Jackie Wills
Jackie Wills is a British poet who has published several collections. Powder Tower (Arc, 1995) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and her most recent Woman’s Head As Jug is influenced by her collaboration with the visual artist Jane Fordham. She has held two residencies at the Royal Literary Fund and lives and works in Brighton.
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David Wilson
David Wilson is a British poet and novelist living in North Yorkshire. He has climbed extensively in the UK, in the Alps and further afield. His debut poetry pamphlet Slope was published by SmithDoorstop in 2016 and The Equilibrium Line appeared in 2019.
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Marjorie Wilson
Marjorie Wilson (1885 – 1934) was a British poet who served as a nurse during the First World War. She was the daughter of a Derbyshire vicar and often wrote under the pen name ‘Town Girl’ in the Children’s Newspaper to which she sent many of her poems and sketches. One of her best-known poems is ‘The Lighthouse’ which finds comfort and hope in the “straight strong arm of light”.
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James Womack
James Womack is a writer and translator. He studied Russian, English and translation at university. His first poetry collection Misprint was published by Carcanet in 2012 and his collection On Trust: A Book of Lies in 2017. He teaches Spanish Literature and Translation at Cambridge University and has translated several books from Spanish and Russian.
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