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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Martyn Crucefix
Martyn Crucefix is a British poet and translator. He is the author of seven original collections of poetry, most recently Cargo of Limbs (Hercules Editions, 2019) and Between a Drowning Man. He has received an Eric Gregory award, a Hawthornden Fellowship, and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translations of the poems of Peter Huchel. His Duino Elegies was published in 2006 and shortlisted for the Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation. He is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at The British Library.
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ee cummings
E E (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 – 1962) was born in Massachusetts. His award-winning poetry, breaking with tradition and experimenting with form, punctuation, speech and syntax, is published in several collections. He received several honours during his lifetime.
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Clare Curtis
Clare Curtis is an artist and printmaker based in Suffolk. She studied illustration and printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee. Although chiefly a lino-cutter she also produces lithographs and screen prints. Her work reflects her love of British 20th century art and design, and of plants and gardens. Her work has featured in exhibitions across the UK.
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Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis studied Literature at Essex University and Trinity College Dublin. An award-winning poet, he has published eleven collections. His most ecent titles are: Folk (Arc Publications 2011); Pony with drawings and painting by David Lilburn (Occasional Press 2013); Approximately in the Key of C (Arc Publications 2015) and This Flight Tonight with drawing by David Lilburn (Occasional Press 2019). He has received the Irish National Poetry Prize, a Varuna Exchange Fellowship to Australia and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Poetry Prize from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. A renowned performer, Curtis has read his poetry all over the world to great acclaim. He is a member of Aosdána.
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Natalie d’Arbeloff
Natalie d’Arbeloff was born in Paris of a French mother and Russian father. She is a painter, printmaker and writer and has lived in London since the mid-1960s where she started NdA Press in 1974 to produce her own artists’ books. Her work has been acquired by major public and private collections internationally.
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Ruth Dallas
Ruth Dallas (1919 – 2008) was a New Zealand poet. Her first book of poetry, Country Road and Other Poems, was published in 1953. In 1954 she moved to Dunedin where she lived for most of her life. She also wrote short stories and published a number of books for children. Her last poetry collection was The Joy of a Ming Vase (Otago University Press, 2006).
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