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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Josephine Corcoran
Josephine Corcoran is a writer, poet and writing teacher originally from the north west of England and now based in Wiltshire. Her latest poetry collection Love and Stones published in 2023 is set in her local landscape amid the turbulence of the covid pandemic. A play ‘The Songs that Houses Sing – the House in Tamworth Park’ was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1852 – 1916) was an African-American poet and teacher. Her ode ‘Lincoln’ was read at the unveiling of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington in 1876. In 1893 her poetry collection Sonnets was published by JJ Little & Co and a subsequent collection Poems was published in 1910.
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William Cowper
William Cowper (1731 – 1800) was a poet, hymn-writer and man of letters. His poetry, dealing with nature and everyday life made him a forerunner of the Romantic Movement. His first volume, Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, published in 1782, received wide acclaim. He also translated Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey into blank verse.
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Meg Cox
Meg Cox lives in Herefordshire and spends much of her time reading and writing poetry. Her work has been widely published in magazines and she is a regular reader at open mics. Her chapbook Looking over My Shoulder at Sodom was published by Grey Hen Press in 2014.
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George Crabbe
George Crabbe (1754 – 1832) was born in Suffolk, the son of a tax collector. He completed medical training but then later became a clergyman and wrote well-known long poems such as The Village and The Borough, realistically observed verse about society, mostly in heroic couplets.
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Claire Crowther
Claire Crowther lives in Somerset and has worked as a journalist and in communications. She has published a number of pamphlets and full-length poetry collections, including Stretch of Closures (Shearsman, 2007) which was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Best First Collection Prize. She was Poet in Residence at the Royal Mint Museum from 2014-15 and her resulting pamphlet Bare George was published in 2016.
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