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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Gladys Cardiff
Gladys Cardiff is a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee and grew up in Seattle, Washington. She has published several poetry collections, the first of which was To Frighten a Storm (Copper Canyon Press, 1976) and her work has been widely anthologised. She teaches at Oakland University in Michigan.
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Thomas Carew
Thomas Carew (1595 – 1640) was a poet in the court of Charles I. His early work is indebted to Donne and Jonson but he also foreshadows the lighter, more elegant style of the ‘Cavalier’ poetry that came afterwards. His reputation really took off in the 1620s with the publication of his scandalous erotic poem ‘A Rapture’ which was even condemned in the House of Commons.
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Aidan Carl Mathews
Aidan Carl Mathews studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Stanford University in the US and has published three poetry collections, the most recent of which is According to the Small Hours (Cape, 1998). He has also written a novel, short stories and plays and received an Academy of American Poets Award. He works in Dublin as a radio drama producer.
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William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (1883 – 1963) was a Puerta Rican-American poet, playwright and novelist and was one of the leading figures of the Imagist movement. His famous dictum ‘No ideas but in things’ is reflected in canonical poems such as ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ which look at an everyday object to see what it might mean. A 640-page Collected Poems was published by Vintage in 2013.
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Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898) was a pseudonym for the writer and mathematician Charles Dodgson. Though most famous for Alice in Wonderland, he was also an accomplished poet, his speciality being literary nonsense poems such as Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark.
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Hayden Carruth
Hayden Carruth (1921 – 2008) was an American poet and literary critic who spent much of his life in rural Vermont. His work was largely overlooked until his Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 was awarded the 1992 National Book Critics Circle award for poetry. In 1996 his collection Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey won the National Book Award.
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