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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David&Rews
David&Rews is an artist who specialises in pen and ink drawings. He graduated from Bath College of Higher Education in 1994 with a BA Hons Degree in 3D Design, but then stopped drawing for almost 20 years. His recent return sees work characterised by his particular interest in British wildlife and birds. His images sometimes incorporate words to convey particular thoughts or ideas.
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Jonathan Davidson
Jonathan Davidson works in arts management and literature development in the West Midlands. His radio plays have been broadcast on BBC Radios 3 and 4 and his second poetry collection Early Train was published by Smith Doorstop in 2011. In 2015, Valley Press published Humfrey Coningsby, a collection of ‘poems, complaints, explanations and demands for satisfaction’ loosely based on the travels of a lord of the manor from Shropshire.
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Beth Davies
Beth Davies is a poet from Sheffield, studying for a Philosophy Degree at Durham. She is a member of The Writing Squad and the editor of The Gentian journal. She regularly performs at poetry events and is part of Durham University Slam Team. She has been published in The Kindling, PUSH and several anthologies.
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Hilary Davies
Hilary Davies is a poet, translator and critic. She has published three collections of poetry. In a Valley of This Restless Mind (Enitharmon, 1997) includes poem sequences about the love affair between the 12th-century philosopher Peter Abelard and his pupil Héloïse, From 1992-93 she was chair of the Poetry Society.
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WH Davies
WH Davies (1871 – 1940) was born in Wales and published 20 collections of poetry while living in the US and the UK. He is perhaps best known for his poem ‘Leisure’ which opens with the lines “What is this life, if, full of care…”. He wrote about hardship, city life and the natural world. A Selected Poems was published by Oxford University Press in 1985.
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Nichola Deane
Nichola Deane is a poet originally from Bolton who studied at St. Andrews and Manchester Universities. Her first publication was the pamphlet My Moriarty (Flarestack, 2012) which was followed by Trieste (Smith Doorstop) in 2015. Her first full collection is Cuckoo which was published by V. Press in 2019. Her work has also been widely published in magazines including Poetry London and The Rialto.
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