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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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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Erik Didriksen
Erik Didriksen’s only poetry publication is the zany Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on your Favourite Songs which was published in 2015. It contains sonnet versions of songs by performers from Beyoncé to Michael Jackson – all in iambic pentameter.
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Maggie Dietz
Maggie Dietz is an American poet and editor whose first collection Perennial Fall (University of Chicago Press, 2007) won a Jane Kenyon Award. She was also a director of the Favorite Poem Project, founded by Robert Pinsky during his term as US poet laureate and co-edited a number of anthologies with him. She has taught poetry at Boston University and now lives and works in New Hampshire.
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Fiona Dignan
Fiona Dignan is a poet and short story writer based in Berkshire. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Mslexia and Popshot, and she won the 2023 London Society Poetry Prize and the Plaza Prize for Sudden Fiction. She also runs a Shared Reading Group at her local library.
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