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 Clare
John Clare (1793 – 1864) was an English poet, son of a farm labourer, born in Northamptonshire. He is known for his poems celebrating nature and the English countryside and his distress at witnessing the changes caused by the agricultural revolution. He suffered from poor physical and mental health and lived in an asylum in later life.
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Jennifer Clark
Jennifer Clark is an American writer and author of a children’s book and three full-length poetry collections. Her latest book, Kissing the World Goodbye (Unsolicited Press) ventures into the world of memoir, braiding family tales with recipes.
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Polly Clark
Polly Clark was born in 1968 in Toronto, and lives in Scotland. She is the author of a prizewinning novel, Larchfield (2017) and several poetry collections, including Take Me With You (2005), shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, and Farewell My Lovely (2009). Her New and Selected Poems – Afterlife – is due for publication in 2017.
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David Clarke
David Clarke’s first pamphlet, Gaud, won the Michael Marks award in 2013. His first collection, Arc, was published by Nine Arches Press in 2015 and was longlisted for the Polari Prize. Another pamphlet, Scare Stories, was published by V Press in 2017 and was named a Poetry School ‘Book the Year.’ His second collection, The Europeans(2019) and The Field in Winter (2023) were also published by Nine Arches. His poems have appeared in publications including Magma, Poetry Wales and The Guardian.
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Gillian Clarke
Gillian Clarke was born in Wales, where she lives and works. As well as publishing plays, prose, and books for children, including translations from the Welsh of traditional stories, she is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Zoology (Carcanet Press, 2016). In 2008 she was appointed the National Poet for Wales.
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Jane Clarke
Jane Clarke is an Irish poet Irish poet who has published three poetry collections and two poetry pamphlets. Her three collections were published by Bloodaxe Books, The River in 2015, When the Tree Falls in 2019 and A Change in the Air in 2023 which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. All the Way Home, a sequence of poems responding to a First World War family archive in the Mary Evans Picture Library, London was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2019.
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