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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David Briggs
David Briggs is a Bristol-based poet, teacher and musician. He has published several collections of poetry, including Rain Rider (Salt, 2013), described as a book of ‘echoes and intricacies’. His work ranges from the personal to the political. The intriguingly titled pamphlet Vision Helmet (Maquette Press, 2016) contains a sequence of lyric poems.
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Verne Bright
Verne Bright (1893 – 1977) was an American poet, as well as being a newspaper journalist and an English teacher. His work often focuses on the natural world and has been published in magazines and newspapers, as well as in his non-fiction book Mountain Man (1948) which tells how the descendants of Daniel Boone came to Oregon.
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Edwin Brock
Edwin Brock (1927 – 1997) was included in the prestigious Penguin Modern Poets 8 in 1966 and was the author of several poetry collections, including Five Ways To Kill A Man (1990). He also wrote one novel and a memoir, Here. Now. Always. (1977). He was poetry editor of Ambit from 1960 until his death in 1997.
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Gail Brodholt
Gail Brodholt is painter and printmaker whose work often portrays contemporary urban landscapes – places that she says often go unnoticed as people hurry through. She was born in South London to immigrant parents, her father being Norwegian and her mother from Trinidad. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
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Carole Bromley
Carole Bromley lives in York and writes for both adults and children. She is the winner of a number of prizes including the Bridport, the Hamish Canham Award and the Caterpillar Prize. She has published three collections of poetry with Smith/Doorstop: A Guided Tour of the Ice House (2011), The Stonegate Devil (2015) and Blast Off (for 7-10 year olds) and one with Valley Press, The Peregrine Falcons of York Minster (2020). Carole is a Stanza rep and runs poetry surgeries.
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Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848) is better known for her only novel Wuthering Heights than for her poetry. In the course of her short life she published only 21 poems in a volume entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846) compiled with her sisters. It was nearly a hundred years before The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë was published in 1941. This contains over 200 poems which explore the self, the imagination and the struggles of the human spirit.
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