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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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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Jim Burns
Jim Burns was born in Preston and left school at 16 to work in a cotton mill. He soon began writing poems and stories and publishing articles and reviews in The Guardian, the New Statesman and selected jazz magazines. His poetic style is conversational and infused with a strong sense of life in the north. Laying Something Down: Poems 1962-2007 was published by Shoestring Press in 2007 and the chapbook let’s do it by The Black Light Engine Room Press in 2018.
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Robert Burns
Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) was a poet and lyricist, widely regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement. Often viewed as the national poet of Scotland, he is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although he also wrote in English and a light Scots dialect that made his work accessible to an audience beyond Scotland.
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John Burnside
John Burnside (1955 – 2024) was a poet and a prolific prose writer. His first collection of poems, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and in 2012 his collection Black Cat Bone won both the TS Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. He taught at the University of St Andrews.
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Wayne Burrows
Wayne Burrows lives in Nottingham and is the author of several books of poetry, including The Apple Sequence (2011), and his most recent collection, Black Glass: New & Selected Poems (2015). He also writes fiction, his latest collection being Exotica Suite and Other Fictions (2015) and has made several short films, including Fantasmagorie (2015).
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