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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William Drummond of Hawthornden
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585 – 1649) was a Scottish poet. He studied Law at Edinburgh University but soon turned to writing poetry instead. His first publication was an elegy on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales which was published in 1613. He lived at Hawthornden Castle, which is now well-established as a literary retreat.
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Ann Drysdale
Ann Drysdale (d. 2024) lived in South Wales. A prize-winning poet, she published several volumes of memoirs and a number of poetry collections, five of them published by Peterloo Poets. Her most recent collections are Between Dryden and Duffy (2005) and Quaintness and Other Offences (2009), the latter from Cinammon Press.
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Alice Duer Miller
Alice Duer Miller (1874 – 1942) was an American writer with a strong commitment to Feminism whose poetry influenced public opinion during the US Suffrage Movement. She also wrote verse novels, including The White Cliffs about an American woman in England widowed by the First World War. It sold over a million copies and was made into the 1944 film ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’.
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Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. She has published several award-winning poetry collections, including The World’s Wife (1999), Feminine Gospels (2002) and Rapture (2005), and was awarded a CBE in 2001. She also writes poetry and picture books for children and is Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Sasha Dugdale
Sasha Dugdale was born in Sussex and is a poet and translator. She has published three collections of poetry of which the most recent is Red House (Carcanet, 2011). She has also translated Russian poetry and drama. Her translation of Plasticine by Vassily Sigarev, won the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. Her long poem ‘Joy’ about William and Catherine Blake won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.
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Denise Duhamel
Denise Duhamel is an American poet who lives in Florida. She has published numerous collections of poetry, including Second Story (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021) and Blowout (2013), which was a finalist for a National Books Critics Circle Award. She writes both free verse and fixed-form poems that explore a wide range of themes from feminism to American culture.
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