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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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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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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