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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Jane Commane
Jane Commane is a Midlands-based poet, writer and editor. Her first collection Assembly Lines was published by Bloodaxe in 2018 and was characterised as exemplifying a ‘new Midlands realism’. Jane is co-author of a poetry-writing handbook, How to be a Poet (with Jo Bell), an editor of Under the Radar magazine and the director of Nine Arches Press.
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Anthony Conran
Anthony Conran, trans. (1931 – 2013) was a poet, dramatist, translator and critic, born in Bengal and educated at Colwyn Bay and the University College, Bangor. He became Research Fellow and Tutor in the Department of English at University College, Bangor in 1957, retiring in 1982. Thereafter he focused on poetry, both Welsh and English-language.
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Henry Constable
Henry Constable (1562 – 1613), an English poet, was from a Roman Catholic family and graduated from St John’s College, Cambridge in 1580. He spent many years in Paris and his works included a volume of sonnets entitled Diana, published in 1592, and a second volume of sonnets published in 1594.
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David Constantine
David Constantine was born in Lancashire and is a poet, academic and translator. He is a Fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford, and co-editor of the literary journal Modern Poetry in Translation. A prolific poet and translator, his poetry collections and translations have won various awards, including The Whitbread Poetry Award in 2002 for Something for the Ghosts and the Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation for his translation of Hans Magnus Enzenberger’s Lighter Than Air. His Collected Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2004.
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Abby Cook
Abby Cook is an illustrator based in West Sussex. Having graduated in illustration from Falmouth University, she has built a successful career in drawing. She favours traditional media, such as paint, ink and coloured pencils but also uses digital techniques and creates collages. Much of her work relates to the natural world and she has produced numerous illustrations for the UK’s various Wildlife Trusts.
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Wendy Cope
Wendy Cope is one of the country’s most popular poets, known for her humorous poetry and her versatility with poetic form. Her poetry collections are all published by Faber & Faber and include Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986); Serious Concerns (1992 ), Two Cures for Love (2008) and Family Values (2012). She has also edited a number of poetry anthologies.
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