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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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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Quyen Dinh
Quyen Dinh is an artist who was born in Vietnam and is now based in Orange County, California. Her paintings and are often informed by her interest in tattoo art and popular culture. She is also a toymaker/sculptor and her sculptures range from models of superheroes to robots and clowns.
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Lucy Dixcart
Lucy Dixcart is a Kent-based writer and joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize 2023. Her first collection, Company of Ghosts, is due to be published by Indigo Dreams in 2024. She was a finalist in the 2021 Brotherton Poetry Prize, with several poems published by Carcanet in the resulting anthology. Her poems have also appeared in publications including The Rialto, Acumen, Wild Court, Stand, Lighthouse, Fenland Poetry Journal and Ink Sweat & Tears.
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Stephen Dobyns
Stephen Dobyns is a poet and novelist born in New Jersey in 1941. He once worked for the Detroit News, as well as teaching at a number of academic institutions including Syracuse University and Boston University. He has published fifteen poetry collections, including Black Dog, Red Dog, which was a National Poetry Series award winner.
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