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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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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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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