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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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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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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