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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Charles Causley
Charles Causley (1917 – 2003) was a poet, teacher and writer from Launceston in Cornwall. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, as a coder. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1958 and was awarded a CBE in 1986. In June 2010, the first Charles Causley Festival took place in Launceston.
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CP Cavafy
Constantine P Cavafy was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1863. He worked for thirty years as a special clerk in the Ministry of Public Works while writing poetry and prose essays, living a secluded life and virtually unrecognised in Greece until late in his career. He preferred distributing his work in private pamphlets to his friends and relatives to sending his work for publication. He died in 1933, and is now considered one of the most highly-esteemed Greek poets of the twentieth century.
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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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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 – 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He was a leader in the rebellion against the conservative values of the Victorian era. While studying at Oxford he associated with members of the Pre-Raphaelite circle and some of his poetry reflects the brooding beauty and melancholy of their paintings. His books include Songs Before Sunrise (1871) and Poems and Ballads (1878).
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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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