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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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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Alistair Elliot
Alistair Elliot is a poet and translator who studied Classics and Philosophy at Oxford. His translation of Euripides’ Medea was performed in theatres in London and New York in a production with Diana Rigg in the leading rôle. His most recent poetry collection is Telling the Stones (Shoestring, 2017). For much of his life he worked as a librarian.
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Sarala Estruch
Sarala Estruch is a British writer, poet, researcher, and educator. Her first collection After All We Have Travelled (Nine Arches Press, 2023) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and her pamphlet Say (flipped eye, 2021) a Poetry School Book of The Year. Her work has appeared in outlets including The Poetry Review, Wasafiri and The Guardian and has been broadcast on BBC Radio.
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Eugene Ethelbert Miller
Eugene Ethelbert Miller was born in the Bronx in New York He is an African-American poet, teacher and literary activist who has published 13 full collections and two memoirs. His most recent collection is a second book of poems about baseball: When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories (Simon and Schuster, 2021). He now lives in Washington DC.
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