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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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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Em Gray
Em Gray is a British poet and artist living in Brighton. She has been highly commended in the Forward Prize, won second prize in the Mslexia Poetry Competition and was also shortlisted for the Creative Future Writers’ Award.
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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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Zoë Green
Zoë Green is a Scottish writer who lives in Vienna and Berlin. She read English at the University of Oxford and holds an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. She has won the Harpers and Queen Orange Prize for Fiction. You can find recent work in Poetry Salzburg Review 40 and in Sídhe Press’s anthology about dementia Our Own Coordinates. A former freelance theatre and literature critic for The Observer, Literary Review, The Independent and The Scotsman, she now works as a Drama and English teacher.
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