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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Rebecca Goss
Rebecca Goss was born in Suffolk where she now lives. She has published two collections of poetry The Anatomy of Structures (Flambard Press, 2010) and Her Birth (Carcanet, 2013). Her poems are often informed by a plainspoken physicality and her 2013 collection encompasses the tragic death of her daughter at sixteen months and the sense of renewal that a second child can usher in.
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Sam Goundry Butler
Sam Goundry Butler is a poet and teacher based in South East London. He is currently studying on the MA Creative Writing and Education programme at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Harry Graham
Harry Graham, or Jocelyn Henry Clive ‘Harry’ Graham (1874 – 1936) was an English writer and journalist. After serving in the Boer and First World Wars, he became a leading lyricist for operettas and musical comedies. However, he is best known as a writer of dark humorous verse.
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Virginia Graham
Virginia Graham (1910 – 1993) was a writer of poetry, journalism and essays, best known for her 1946 poetry collection Consider the Years, about her life during the Second World War. She was the daughter of Harry Graham and a close friend of Joyce Grenfell, with whom she collaborated.
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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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