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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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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Khiwani Deepankar
Khiwani Deepankar (1971 – 2020) was born in New Delhi but lived for many years in Paris before returning to India. His debut collection of poems, Entr’acte, was published in 2006 by Harbour Line. His poems have also featured in many anthologies including The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets.
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Tjawangwa Dema
Tjawangwa Dema is a Botswana-based poet who was an Honorary Senior Research Associate in the Department of English at Bristol University. Her first full-length book The Careless Seamstress (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) won the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. Her collection an/other pastoral (No Bindings, 2022) with illustrations and an accompanying digital archive was a Finalist for the 2022 Luschei Prize.
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Joolz Denby
Joolz Denby is a poet, novelist, artist, illustrator and professional tattooist. She first came to prominence as a touring punk performance poet, although now she describes herself as a ‘spoken-word artist’. She has published several collections of poetry, including Mad, Bad & Dangerous To Know (Virgin Books, 1986) and The Pride of Lions (Bloodaxe 1995).
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