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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Louise Chandler Moulton
Louise Chandler Moulton (1835 – 1908) was an American poet, critic and story-writer who published many books for children and wrote regular columns for the New York Tribune. She was first published (in a local newspaper) when she was only 15 and she went on to be highly prolific. Her poetry collection In the Garden of Dreams (1889) established her reputation and her literary salons were popular with many writers.
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Robert Chandler
Robert Chandler is a poet and award-winning translator of Russian literature. He is the editor of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (Penguin, 2005). He has translated works by Teffi for Pushkin Press, including her collection of short stories and her memoir Memories – From Moscow to the Black Sea. He has also published his own poems in the TLS and Poetry Review.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340s – 1400) was an English poet (often called ‘the father of English literature’) who is best known for The Canterbury Tales. The work is unusual in that it was written in Middle English at a time when Latin or Anglo-Norman French were far more widely used. He was the first writer to be buried in what is now Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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Kayo Chingonyi
Kayo Chingonyi came to live in the UK from Zambia in 1993. His first full collection of poems Kumukanda was published by Chatto in 2017 and won the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. His second A Blood Condition was published in 2021. He has been a judge in the Foyle Young Poets awards and is a Fellow of the Complete Works programme for diversity and quality in British Poetry.
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Nandi Chinna
Nandi Chinna is a writer, researcher and environmental activist based in Perth, Australia. Her poetry collection The Future Keepers, (Fremantle Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2020, and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry 2019.
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Richard Church
Richard Church (1893 – 1972) was born in London. He was an English writer, poet and critic who also wrote novels, verse plays and three volumes of autobiography. He was Director of the Oxford Festival of Spoken Poetry in the 1930s. His last of several poetry collections was The Burning Bush (1967).
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