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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Eamon Grennan
Eamon Grennan was born in Dublin and studied English and Italian at the city’s famous University College. His first full poetry collection Wildly for Days was published by Gallery Press in 1983 and his most recent There Now in 2015. He now divides his time between the west of Ireland and the US where he spent many years teaching.
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Cathy Grindrod
Cathy Grindrod was Derbyshire Poet Laureate from 2005-2007, and her most recent collection of poetry is The Sky Head On (Shoestring Press, 2009). She is also a playwright, most recently of Swing, performed in 2015, and wrote the libretto for the oratorio, More Glass Than Wall. She is a literature consultant, tutor and mentor, specialising in writing for wellbeing.
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Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke’s poetry collections include Flight (2002), shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize, Juniper Street (2006), and X (2014). She was born and raised in Ireland and is the editor of Poetry Ireland Review, also teaching currently at Manchester University.
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Philip Gross
Philip Gross was born in north Cornwall, the son of a wartime refugee from Estonia and the village schoolmaster’s daughter. His poetry collections include The Water Table (Bloodaxe, 2009) which won the TS Eliot Prize and most recently A Bright Acoustic (Bloodaxe, 2017). He lives in Penarth in Wales on the shores of the River Severn.
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Hattie Grünewald
Hattie Grünewald is a contemporary British poet and literary agent. She was a winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year competition in 2009.
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Harry Guest
Harry Guest (1932 – 2021) was a Welsh poet who spent much of his life as an English teacher. He was a prolific writer, producing fiction, non-fiction, translations and poetry. His first collection was A Different Darkness (1964) and Some Times was published by Anvil in 2010. In 2001 he was elected to The Welsh Academy.
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