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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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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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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