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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Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947 – 1975) was a poet and critical theorist. She grew up in Glasgow and went to university in Liverpool and Cambridge . Her critical study Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry was published by Manchester University Press in 1978. Her poetry collections included Identi-kit (1967), Language-Games (1971) and the posthumous On the Periphery (1976). Collected Poems and Translations appeared in 1990 and Selected Poems in 1999. A further Collected Poems was published in 2008.
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Hannah Forward
Hannah Forward is a printmaker and painter living in Hove. She studied Graphic Design at university and worked as an illustrator for a number of years before a course in relief printmaking captured her imagination and prompted a change of direction. Her linocut print ‘Cassette Tapes’ was selected for the 2018 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, curated by Grayson Perry.
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Linda France
Linda France is a poet and editor who lives in Northumberland and has published eight poetry collections including You are Her (Arc, 2010) and Reading the Flowers (Arc, 2016). Her poem ‘Bernard and Cerinthe’ won the 2013 National Poetry Competition. She teaches on the Creative Writing MA at Newcastle University.
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Peter France
Peter France was born in Londonderry and studied French at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has published widely on French, Russian and comparative literature, including the Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (Oxford University Press, 2001) and has translated many books of French prose and Russian poetry.
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Vievee Francis
Vievee Francis is an American poet. Her collections include Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press, 2006), Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012) and Forest Primeval (Northwestern University Press, 2016). She is an associate professor at Dartmouth College and an associate editor of Callaloo, a journal of African American and African Diaspora Arts & Letters.
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Ella Frears
Ella Frears is a poet and artist born in Cornwall and now based in London. Her debut collection, Shine, Darling, (Offord Road Books, 2020) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. A pamphlet I AM THE MOTHER CAT (Rough Trade Books 2021) was written as part of her residency at the John Hansard Gallery.
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