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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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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Nikolay Gumilyov
Nikolay Gumilyov (1886 – 1921) was a poet, traveller, critic and military officer. He was married to the poet Anna Akhmatova until he was arrested and executed by the Russian Secret Police. He loved Africa and travelled there often; one of his most significant collections is The Tent (1921) which contains the famous poem ‘Giraffe.’ With fellow poet Ivanov he founded ‘The Guild of Poets’ – a group committed to the craft of making poems.
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Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn (1929 – 2004) published several collections of poetry both in the US and Britain, including The Man with Night Sweats (1992), Boss Cupid (2000) and a Collected Poems in 1994. His many accolades for poetry include the Forward Prize, a Rockefeller Award and the PEN (Los Angeles) Prize for Poetry.
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