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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Clifton Gachagua
Clifton Gachagua is a Kenyan poet and scriptwriter. His debut collection was The Madman at Kilifi (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). His work explores wild landscapes and themes of intimacy and betrayal. He lives in Nairobi and is a member of the pan-African writing collective Jalada.
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Katherine Gallagher
Katherine Gallagher is an acclaimed poet who has published eight full collections, as well as four chapbooks. Her most recent title is Acres of Light (Arc, 2016). Born in Australia, Gallagher has lived and worked in London since 1979. Her work has been translated into several European languages.
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Miriam Gamble
Miriam Gamble (b. 1980) grew up in Belfast. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award in 2010. Her pamphlet, This Man’s Town, was published by tall-lighthouse in 2007. Her two collections, The Squirrels Are Dead (2010) and Pirate Music (2014) were published by Bloodaxe and the former was awarded a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. She currently teaches at the University of Edinburgh.
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Rosie Garner
Rosie Garner’s poetry has been widely published in magazines and anthologies and her poetry collections include Poetry On the Buses (2006) and The Rain Diaries (2010). She leads creative writing workshops for organisations including Headway, Nottingham, and has been Writer in Residence for HMP Whattton and Nottingham City Transport.
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Len Garrison
Len Garrison (1943 – 2003) was born in Jamaica and moved to London in the 1950s. He was a community activist, poet and educationist who championed black writing and co-founded the Black Cultural Archives and the African and Caribbean Educational Resource (Acer). A poetry collection Beyond Babylon was published by Black Star in 1985.
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Victoria Gatehouse
Victoria Gatehouse is a zoologist, poet and children’s writer based in the Pennines. Her pamphlet The Mechanics of Love (Smith|Doorstop) was selected as a ‘Laureate’s Choice’ by Carol Ann Duffy in 2019. Her poems have been published in many journals and anthologies including The North, Magma, Mslexia, Anthropocene, Butcher’s Dog, The Rialto, Spelt, She is Fierce and After Sylvia. She is a three-time winner of The Poetry News Members’ Competition and was highly commended in the Gingko Prize 2023. Her debut collection is forthcoming in 2024.
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