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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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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Ian Duhig
Ian Duhig was the eighth of eleven children born to Irish parents with a liking for poetry. He has won the National Poetry Competition twice and published several poetry collections including The Blind Roadmaker (2016) which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. He has held a number of Royal Literary Fund fellowships at universities across the UK, including at his own alma mater Leeds.
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Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore (1952 – 2017) was born in Beverley and spent much of her life in Bristol. She wrote novels, short stories and children’s books, as well as poetry. She won the Orange Prize for her novel A Spell of Winter and her final poetry collection Inside the Wave (Bloodaxe, 2017) was a Costa Book of the Year. She had an abiding love of Cornwall and of the sea, and both feature regularly in her work.
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Douglas Dunn
Douglas Dunn is a major Scottish poet, editor and critic. In 1985 his collection Elegies, a moving account of his first wife’s death, became a critical and popular success. He has written over ten collections of poetry, and has also edited several anthologies, including The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (2000). He was Professor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews from 1991 and was awarded an OBE in 2003.
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