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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John Agard
John Agard is a Guyanese poet, author of several poetry collections for both adults and children, the latest being Clever Backbone (2009). He often writes in collaboration with his partner Grace Nichols, and lives in South East England. He has travelled throughout the world performing his poetry.
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Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova (1889 – 1966) is the pen-name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko who was born near the Black Sea port of Odessa, to an upper-class family. She is widely recognised as one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century and was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965. Her work ranges from short lyric poems to longer cycles such as Requiem which explores Stalin’s rule of terror.
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Carry Akroyd
Carry Akroyd is a painter and printmaker living on the Cambridgeshire/Northamptonshire border. Her work reflects her local arable landscapes and the wildlife that lives there. She also has an affinity with the local Northamptonshire poet John Clare and has illustrated three collections of his poetry. She was President of the John Clare Society in 2016.
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Marjorie Allen Seiffert
Marjorie Allen Seiffert (1885 – 1970) was an American poet who is widely anthologised and had many poems published in The New Yorker during her lifetime. Her collections include The Name of Life (Scribner, 1938). She also wrote under pseudonyms such as Angela Cypher and Elijah Hay, the latter being a poet belonging to a fake literary movement called Spectrism.
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Rachael Allen
Rachael Allen was born in Cornwall and moved to London to study English at Goldsmiths College, London. Her first poetry collection was Kingdomland. She is the poetry editor of Granta magazine and Granta Books.
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Helen Allison
Helen Allison lives in Forres in the north of Scotland. Her work has been widely published online and her first full poetry collection Tree standing small was published by Clochoderick Press in 2018 . Her work reflects her interest in the natural world and in human relationships.
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