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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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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John Greening
John Greening is a poet, playwright, critic and editor based in Cambridgeshire. He has published several anthologies and over twenty collections of poetry, most recently The Silence (Carcanet 2019), Europa’s Flight (New Walk, 2019), Moments Musicaux (Salzburg, 2020) and A Postcard To (with Stuart Henson, Red Squirrel Press, 2020). His collected reviews and essays, Vapour Trails, recently appeared from Shoestring Press.
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Lavina Greenlaw
Lavina Greenlaw is a leading contemporary poet and novelist who has been shortlisted for numerous literary awards. She was born in London and grew up in Essex, publishing her first poetry collection in 1991. Her collection Minsk (Faber 2003) received great critical acclaim and was followed in 2011 by The Casual Perfect. She was the first Poet in Residence at the Science Museum.
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Louise Greig
Louise Greig lives in Aberdeen and is a children’s picture book author and poet. She writes poetry for children and adults and has won several international poetry awards. She is inspired by both the majesty and the minutiae of nature and by the company of animals.
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