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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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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Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000) was an American teacher, poet and author. She remains one of the most highly regarded and widely read 20th-century American poets and was the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize (for Annie Allen published in 1949). Much of her work explores the experience of the urban black community and the struggles of the civil rights movement.
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Eleanor Brown
Eleanor Brown was born in 1969, and grew up in Scotland. She studied English Literature at the University of York, and has worked in the banqueting department of a Cambridge hotel, as a Pizza Express waitress, a pub barmaid and a legal secretary. She also travelled to France at one time and lived in a convent. She is now Writing Fellow at the University of Strathclyde.
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Jacqueline Brown
Jacqueline Brown was born in 1944 in Sheffield and died in 2008. She won the 1992 Arvon/Observer International Poetry Competition. Hercollection, Thinking Egg, was published by Arc, and she was the author of three further books of poetry: Accidental Reality, Fractured Flights, and In a Woman’s Likeness, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She spent most of her life in Adult and Special Education.
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Michael Brown
Michael Brown is a British poet based in the North East. He won a New Writing North Award in 2017. He has published three pamphlets; Undersong (Eyewear 2014), Locations for a Soul (Templar, 2016) and Right of Way (Maytree, 2023). A full collection Where Grown Men Go was published by Salt in 2019. He has also been longlisted in the National Poetry Competition.
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