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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Deirdre Dunne
Deirdre Dunne is an Irish artist who gained an Honours Degree in Fine Art Painting at Crawford College of Art in Cork. She works mostly in oil and acrylic on canvas or hardboard. Now living in Co Limerick in the foothills of the Galty Mountains, her subject matter ranges from everyday kitchen scenes to camels in the Gobi Desert.
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Katie Dunstan
Katie Dunstan is a poet living in South East London. She is co-founder and host of The Poetry Lounge, a monthly open mic night and growing community of people who write poems and people who love listening to them. ‘Some Things I Like’ is her first published piece.
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Jane Duran
Jane Duran is a Cuban-born poet, whose poems are often known for their preoccupation with ideas surrounding memory and exile. She has published four collections (all with Enitharmon Press) one of which, Breathe Now, Breathe (1995), won the Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection. She also received a Cholmondeley Award for her poetry in 2005.
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Paul Durcan
Paul Durcan, one of Ireland’s foremost poets, was born in Dublin in 1944. He has published numerous prize-winning collections of poetry and is known for his satirical take on Irish history, as well as his more lyrical and romantic poems.
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Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction whose books have been translated into 24 languages. His novels include Paris Trance, The Colour of Memory and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. He has also written a critical study of John Berger: Ways of Telling. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and in 2015 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Sue Dymoke
Sue Dymoke (1962 – 2023) was a Reader in Education at the University of Leicester, where she researched poetry teaching and learning. Her poetry collections, Moon at the Park and Ride (2012) and The New Girls (2004), are published by Shoestring Press.
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