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 800 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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Jerrold Yam
Jerrold Yam is a poet and Singaporean lawyer based in London. He is the author of three poetry collections: Intruder (Ethos Books, 2014), Scattered Vertebrae (Math Paper Press, 2013) and Chasing Curtained Suns (Math Paper Press, 2012).
He was named by Singapore’s National Arts Council as one of the ‘New Voices of Singapore 2014’, and his poems have been published widely in magazines including Poetry London, Magma, Oxford Poetry, Washington Square Review and Time Out.
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Paul Yandle
Paul Yandle is a poet and trainee English teacher from South Wales. He studied Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Glamorgan and graduated in 2005. His poems have been published in several literary anthologies and magazines, including Poetry Wales.
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Tiphanie Yanique
Tiphanie Yanique was born in the Caribbean and now lives in New York. She writes fiction and poetry and her collection Wife won the Forward/Felix Dennis Prize in the UK for Best First Collection in 2016. She had started writing it in 2000. She has commented that poets use language and form ‘to find a way to say something anew.’
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WB Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) was an Irish poet and a major figure in twentieth-century poetry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, the first Irishman so honoured. A driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, he, along with others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. Yeats was a very good friend of Indian Bengali poet Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
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Tamar Yoseloff
Tamar Yoseloff was born in the US and moved to the UK in 1987. She has published six full collections, most recently The Black Place (Seren, 2019). She is also the author of Formerly (the inaugural chapbook from her publishing venture Hercules Editions). She is currently a lecturer on the Poetry School / Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry and cites the visual arts as one of her key areas of interest.
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Dean Young
Dean Young (1955 – 2022) was an American poet who was Texas poet laureate and William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas. He published numerous collections of poetry as well as critical work. Strike Anywhere (University Press of Colorado, 1995) won the Colorado Prize for Poetry and Elegy on Toy Piano (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent collection is Solar Perplexus (Copper Canyon Press, 2019).
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