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 850 historical and contemporary poets. In our pages you’ll find old favourites alongside twenty-first century voices – everyone from WH Auden to Belinda Zhawi. 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.-
Vince Foxall
Vince Foxall is an award-winning playwright from Wolverhampton who moved away from teaching English and Drama to run his own theatre companies. He has had over 50 plays commissioned and produced throughout the UK and is currently working on screenplays, short films and poetry. He loves language, loves animals – “cats are ideas, dogs are words” – and thinks poems are tropical fish. Catch Vince’s “Tony Clean” and “Forever Lucy” on Tearaway Pictures.
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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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John Freeman
John Freeman was born in Essex and studied English at Cambridge. He now teaches at Cardiff University. He has published several poetry collections including The Light Is Of Love, I Think: New and Selected Poems (Stride) and A Suite for Summer (Worple). His poems have also appeared in magazines including Iota, Scintilla and Poetry Wales.
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