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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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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Roz Goddard
Roz Goddard lives in the West Midlands and has previously been poet laureate for Birmingham. Her work is also permanently on display at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and her poetry has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She runs writing workshops and courses and is currently studying for an MPhil in writing at Glamorgan University.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) was a writer, biologist, artist, physicist and polymath. His play Faust has been called one of the greatest dramatic works of modern European literature, while his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther had a major impact in the Sturm und Drang period which marked the early phase of Romanticism. Many of the composer Franz Schubert’s Lieder were inspired by Goethe’s poems.
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Nicolette Golding
Nicolette Golding was born in London in 1953 and has enjoyed making poems since the age of seven. She has been published in Poetry London, Artemis, The Interpreter’s House, some anthologies, and once on a London bus. Too introverted to be an actor, she often satisfies that inclination by writing in the voices of characters, creatures or objects. She lives with her husband in Norfolk.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (1728 – 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer most famous for The Vicar of Wakefield published in 1766 and the comic drama She Stoops to Conquer (1771). His poems were published in The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith (Frederick Warne and Co., 1889) and include the 160-line romantic ballad ‘The Hermit’ (which turns up in The Vicar of Wakefield when it’s sung by one of the characters).
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