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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WS Graham
WS Graham (1918 – 1986) was born in Scotland and lived much of his life in Cornwall, many of his friends belonging to the artistic community of St Ives. His work was held in particular regard by TS Eliot, Harold Pinter and by many later poets. In 1999 Carcanet Press published The Nightfisherman, selected letters of WS Graham and in 2005 Faber and Faber published his New Collected Poems which incorporated two posthumous collections along with earlier published work. He was described by Peter Porter as, ‘One of the most original poets of his time’.
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SL Grange
SL Grange is a poet, theatre-maker and multi-disciplinary artist. They won the Poetry Wales pamphlet competition in 2021 and a pamphlet bodies, and other haunted houses was published by Seren in 2022. Recent work includes A Note to Mary Frith, commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe for the Notes to Forgotten She-Wolves series.
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Mark Granier
Mark Granier is an Irish poet living in Bray, Co Wicklow. His poems have appeared in numerous outlets in Ireland and the UK, including Poetry Review, The New Statesman and Carol Ann Duffy’s WRITE Where We Are NOW pandemic project for Manchester University. His fifth collection, Ghostlight: New & Selected Poems, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2017.
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Robert Graves
Robert Graves (1895 – 1985) was a major poet, novelist critic and historian. He was a prolific writer, producing more than 140 works during his lifetime. Well known as the author of I, Claudius, and Claudius the God as well as his memoir Goodbye to All That, which detailed his experiences during the First World War, he is also remembered as a fine war poet, and commemorated as such in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (1716 –1771) was a poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University. He began writing poems seriously in 1742, after a close friend, Richard West, died. His best known work is Elegy in a Country Churchyard, though he also wrote light verse including a mock elegy for Horace Walpole’s cat.
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James Green
James Green is a Sheffield-based printmaker who uses linocut and screen-print techniques. His work encompasses landscape and wild creatures, and he has produced many images of Yorkshire towns and cities. He also has a particular interest in depicting donkeys, often in unexpected – and sometimes abstract – settings.
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