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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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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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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