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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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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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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