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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Heid E. Erdrich
Heid E. Erdrich is an Obijwe poet and writer and editor. She has published six collections of poetry, most recently Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media (Michigan State University Press, 2017). She has also edited two anthologies of literature by Native writers including New Poets of Native Nations from Graywolf Press. She has also created and collaborated on several poem films with her sister, the writer Louise Erdrich.
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Lucy Eddy
Lucy Eddy was an American poet born in 1863 who lived in Chicago and was a cousin of the founder of General Motors. Little is know about her life and she does not appear to have published a full collection, although a sequence of poems about plants and flowers appeared in the US magazine Poetry.
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Catherine Edmunds
Catherine Edmunds was educated as a classical musician at Dartington College of Arts and Goldsmiths College, London. After 20 years as a professional musician she turned instead to art and writing. She has published both poetry and fiction and her latest collection is How to win at King’s Cross (erbacce-press, 2018).
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Glyn Edwards
Glyn Edwards is a Welsh poet. His collection In Orbit (Seren, 2023) was voted People’s Choice at the Wales Book of the Year Awards. Glyn is the Writer-in-Residence at the North Wales Wildlife Trust and edits the feature Wild Words for the trust’s quarterly magazine. He works as a teacher and is a PhD researcher in Ecopoetry at Bangor University.
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Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards was born in Wales and teaches English at a secondary school in Monmouth. His debut poetry collection, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014) won the Costa Award for Poetry in 2014. He describes the collection as reflecting the lives of ordinary people, alongside Welsh pop culture and its relationship with other cultures.
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WD Ehrhart
WD Ehrhart is an American poet who is known for his poems about the Vietnam War. However, his subjects range far more widely than this and include the natural world and the complexity of human relationships. For much of his working life he was a school teacher. His most recent publication is Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems (McFarland, 2019).
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