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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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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Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931) was a Lebanese painter and poet who spent most of his life in the US and wrote in English. His simple and direct style was influential in the transformation of Arabic literature in the early 20th century. His best-known book is probably The Prophet (Alfred A Knopf, 1923) a series of prose poetry fables which has been translated into over 100 languages and has never been out of print.
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Evan Gill Smith
Evan Gill Smith is an American poet living in New York. His work has been widely published in journals and he also produces poetry videos for the series Poeta. He teaches creative writing at The City University of New York.
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Valerie Gillies
Valerie Gillies was born in Canada but grew up in Scotland. She studied at Edinburgh University and was also a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Mysore in India. Her poetry reflects her many interests, including Scottish history and identity and the environment. She is influenced by Scottish traditions and writes ballads, reels and songs. Her first collection was Each Bright Eye (Canongate, 1977) and her most recent The Cream of the Well: New and Selected Poems (Edinburgh: Luath, 2015).
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Lizzie Ginbey
Lizzie Ginbey and Barry Tottle are graphic designers and printmakers living and working in the south west. They founded a successful graphic design agency before setting up a creative collaboration called ‘Inky Misdemeanors’. Here the two produce work that covers a range of printmaking styles and subjects including landscape, travel, wildlife, architecture, folklore and animals. They favour lino-cutting, wood-block prints, as well as etching on Perspex or glass.
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