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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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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Diana Gittins
Diana Gittins’ most recent publication is a poetry pamphlet: BORK! published by HappenStance Press. She has been a Hawthornden Fellow and her poetry and prose have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. She has had four works of nonfiction published and was a lecturer in creative writing for the Open University. She is currently working on a collection of personal essays.
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John Glenday
John Glenday is a Scottish poet. His first collection, The Apple Ghost, won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and his second, Undark, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His work is lyrical and strongly influenced by the beauty and mystery of the natural world. His most recent collection is The Golden Mean (Picador 2015).
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Louise Glück
Louise Glück (1943 – 2023) was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. She was the author of many poetry collections, the most recent being Faithful and Virtuous Night (Carcanet, 2014) and A Village Life: Poems (2009). She was the recipient of several major awards including the Wallace Stevens Award in 2008, and in 2003 she replaced Billy Collins as the Library of Congress’s twelfth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
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Katharine Goda
Katharine Goda is a poet and creative practitioner based in Durham whose work has been published in a number of magazines and anthologies, most recently The North, and transformed into film poems. Receiving an ACE Developing Your Creative Practice Award and a Northern Writers Award has enabled her to further develop creative collaborations which she loves, inspired by the extraordinary in the ordinary and the power of words to challenge, include and inspire.
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