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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Imtiaz Dharker
Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan and raised in Glasgow. She works as a documentary film-maker in India and is also an artist. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including most recently Over the Moon (2014).
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Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill was born in 1952 and is one of the major poets writing in the Irish language today. Her famous poem ‘The Language Issue’ explains her decision not to write in English. Irish themes, including language, are central to her poetry which encompasses everything from ancient myths to the details of contemporary life. She was Ireland Professor of Poetry (2001 – 2004) and the first Professor of Irish (language) Poetry.
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Michelle Diaz
Michelle Diaz worked in South London as a teacher for many years. She now lives in Glastonbury. Her work has been widely published both online and in print journals. Her debut pamphlet The Dancing Boy was published by Against the Grain Poetry Press in 2019. She is currently working on her first full collection.
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) was a prolific poet, whose poems were in the main published posthumously. Noted for her unconventional use of punctuation and capitalisation she is now considered one of America’s most original poets of the nineteenth century. She lived a reclusive life in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Josephine Dickinson
Josephine Dickinson was born in London in 1957. Deaf since childhood, she studied classics at Oxford University and after working as a music teacher and composer, relocated to Alston, Cumbria, where she met and married an elderly sheep farmer, Douglas Dickinson, who died in 2004. She has published four collections of poetry, many poems drawing on her life as a sheep farmer.
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Matthew Dickman
Matthew Dickman is an American poet whose first UK publication is a collection called Brother (Faber & Faber, 2016). Appropriately, this contains poems written by Matthew himself as well as some by his twin brother Michael. In 2015 he received a Guggenheim award and he is also the poetry editor of Tin House magazine.
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