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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UA Fanthorpe
UA Fanthorpe (1929 – 2009) began to publish poetry in her late 40s, after leaving teaching and taking up a position as a receptionist in a neurological hospital, which inspired her first collection. She was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry in 2003, and her Collected Poems was published in 2004.
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Helen Farish
Helen Farish is a British poet based in Cumbria. Her debut collection Intimates (Cape, 2005) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Subsequent collections are published by Bloodaxe, including most recently The Penny Dropping which tells the story of a failed love affair.
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Paul Farley
Paul Farley is a poet, academic and broadcaster. He was born in Liverpool and studied at Chelsea School of Art. His first poetry collection The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You was published in 1998 and in 1999 he was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His poems often contain elements of wry humour and are interested in form and metre.
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Vicki Feaver
Vicki Feaver is a poet and teacher and is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Chichester. She has published three collections of poetry: Close Relatives (Secker 1981), The Handless Maiden (Cape 1994) and The Book of Blood (Cape 2006). She has won a Hawthornden Fellowship, an Arts Council Award and a Cholmondeley Award. She lives in Scotland.
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Elaine Feeney
Elaine Feeney is an Irish poet originally from Galway who now lives in Athenry. Her collections Where’s Katie? (2010), The Radio was Gospel (2014) and Rise (2017) are published by Salmon. Her chapbook, Indiscipline, appeared from Maverick Press in 2007. Feeney’s work has been translated into over a dozen languages and is widely published.
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Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein (b1930) is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, biographer and translator. Her poetry collections include Collected Poems and Translations (2002), Talking To The Dead (2007) and Cities (2010). Her novels often draw on her own Jewish heritage and she has written several biographies, including biographies of Ted Hughes and Anna Akhmatova.
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