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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Miriam Darlington
Miriam Darlington is a writer and poet. She has published two works of non-fiction: Otter Country (Granta, 2013) and Owl Sense (Guardian Faber, 2018) as well as a poetry collection Windfall (Overstep Books, 2008). She is also a regular columnist for The Times’s Nature Notebook. She works as a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth and lives in Devon with her family and various animals.
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Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish (1941 – 2008) was a Palestinian poet who lived for many years in exile in Beirut and Paris. He published more than 30 poetry collections and several prose works and received many awards. He was considered to be a ‘resistance poet’ and his early work reflects his unhappiness at the occupation of his native land. He was placed under house arrest when his poem ‘Identity Card’ was turned into a protest song.
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Elizabeth Daryush
Elizabeth Daryush (1887 – 1977) was the daughter of British poet laureate Robert Bridges and had a privileged upbringing in Edwardian England. Her poetry is often traditional in style, although her later work was influenced by the years she spent living in Persia and explored issues of social injustice. Her Collected Poems was published by Carcanet in 1976.
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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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