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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Alexandra Buckle
Alexandra Buckle is an artist and printmaker now living in Bicester. She studied Art at Oxford Brookes University and then Design at Staffordshire University. Her linocuts often take inspiration from the local woods where she walks and from formal gardens. Her work has been widely exhibited across the UK and she also teaches linocut at her home studio.
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Adrian Buckner
Adrian Buckner lectures in Creative Writing at Derby University. He was the editor of Poetry Nottingham, renamed Assent, from 2004-2013, and is a former Reviews Editor for Staple literary magazine. He studied English at University College, Swansea, and is the author of four poetry collections, including Bed Time Reading (2011) and Contains Mild Peril (2008).
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Christina Buckton
Christina Buckton lives near Cambridge. She has had various careers in the BBC, education, counselling and play therapy and didn’t start to explore poetry until her eighties. Her poems have been published in various magazines and anthologies including The North, New Contexts, Orbis, Stand, Dreich, Fenland Journal, One Hand Clapping and Words for the Wild. She won On the Buses awards at the Guernsey International Poetry competition in 2018, 2020 and 2021.
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Sue Burge
Sue Burge is a writing tutor, mentor and editor based in North Norfolk. Her poems have appeared in a wide range of journals and themed anthologies. Her four poetry collections are: In the Kingdom of Shadows and Confetti Dancers (Live Canon), Lumière and The Saltwater Diaries (Hedgehog Poetry Press).
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Jane Burn
Jane Burn is an award-winning poet, artist and hybrid writer. She is a working-class person with autism. Her work is widely published and anthologised. Her current collection, The Apothecary of Flight, is published by Nine Arches. She is the Michael Marks Awards Environmental Poet of the Year 2023/24 and lives off-grid in Northumberland for nine months of the year.
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James Roderick Burns
James Roderick Burns studied at the University of Oxford and the State University of New York. He is the author of a collection of tanka (The Salesman’s Shoes), a collection of sedoka sequences (Greetings from Luna Park) and a book of short fiction, A Bunch of Fives (Mudfog Press).
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