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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Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron (1788 – 1824) inherited his title in 1798, along with his ancestral home of Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire. A flamboyant and controversial figure, celebrated for his excesses, he became well-known with the publication of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage in 1812. He travelled widely, and lived for some time in Italy where he wrote some of his most famous works, including Don Juan (1819-1824). He died in Greece in 1824, supporting the Greek War of Independence.
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Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell was a New Zealand poet, playwright and novelist. His collection Mine Eyes Dazzle (Pegasus, 1950) was the first by a Polynesian poet to be published in English. His output spans six decades, with his final collection (written with his wife Meg Campbell) published in 2008 just a year before his death.
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Nancy Campbell
Nancy Campbell (b. 1978, UK) has conducted residencies at ecological and research institutions in Iceland, Denmark and the US, and is a Hawthornden Fellow. Her books include The Night Hunter (2011), Tikilluarit (2013) and How To Say ‘I Love You’ In Greenlandic (2011), which received the Birgit Skiöld Award; her translations from Greenlandic have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
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Niall Campbell
Niall Campbell is a Scottish poet originally from South Uist in the Western Isles. His first collection Moontide was published by Bloodaxe and won the inaugural Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize (2014). He has also published a US collection First Nights as part of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. He is now living in Leeds and working on a second UK collection.
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Moya Cannon
Moya Cannon was born in 1956 in County Donegal and has published five volumes of poetry, including most recently Keats Lives (Carcanet, 2015). Her poems, which have been widely anthologised and translated, engage with landscape, archaeology, music and language itself. She has won the Brendan Behan and O’Shaughnessy Awards and has held numerous residencies in Ireland and abroad.
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Sam Cannon
Sam Cannon is a wildlife artist with a background in graphic design, based near Lyme Regis in Dorset. She creates images of the natural world, often incorporating phrases or quotations from poems in beautiful calligraphy. Her paintings of native birds and mammals are always meticulously observed but also convey the vivid, secret lives of these familiar creatures.
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