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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Michael Donaghy
Michael Donaghy (1954 – 2004) was born in the US and moved to Britain in 1985. Former poetry editor of the Chicago Review, he was a popular creative writing tutor and musician, and his collections included Machines (1986), Shibboleth (1998) and Conjure (2000), winner of the Forward Poetry Prize.
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John Donne
John Donne (1572 – 1631) was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. The pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets, his works include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness. In 1601 and again in 1614 he served as a member of parliament. He became an Anglican priest and was appointed Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1621.
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Maura Dooley
Maura Dooley is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Two of her poetry collections have been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Her most recent publication is The Silvering (Bloodaxe, 2017). She has also edited a number of anthologies and is a former Chair of the Poetry Book Society.
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Tishani Doshi
Tishani Doshi was born in the city then known as Madras and has published poetry, fiction, short stories and essays. Her first UK poetry collection Countries of the Body (Aark Arts, 2006) won the Forward Prize and she has also won the All-India Poetry Competition. Her most recent poetry title is Girls are Coming out of the Woods (Bloodaxe, 2018). She currently lives in Tamil Nadu with her husband and three dogs.
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Mark Doty
Mark Doty is an American poet whose first collection Turtle, Swan was published in 1987. Since then he has been widely praised for the elegance of his free verse poems, including his arresting odes to urban gay life. He has won numerous literary prizes in the US and in 1995 won the UK’s TS Eliot Prize for My Alexandria (Cape). He lives in New York.
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Keith Douglas
Keith Douglas was born in 1920 and studied at Oxford University under Edmund Blunden, before enlisting and being posted to the Middle East in 1941. He returned to England in 1943 to take part in the Invasion of Normandy and was killed three days after D Day, aged 24. Initially little known as a War poet, his reputation has since grown gradually. His Collected Poems was published in 1951.
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