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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Sheila Hackney
Nothing is known of Sheila Hackney, which suggests that this may have been a nom de plume.
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Jen Hadfield
Jen Hadfield was born in Cheshire and is the author of two collections of poetry – Almanacs (2005) and the Poetry Book Society recommended Nigh-No-Place (2008), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Both collections are published by Bloodaxe Books. She lives in Shetland.
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Hafiz
Hafiz (c. 1320 – 1389) or Hafez was a Persian mystic and lyric poet who followed the Sufi religion. His work expressed the miracle of divine love and inspiration, often using the ancient Arabic form of the ghazal. His most famous work is his Divan of Hafiz which is a collection probably put together after his death.
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Robert Hamberger
Robert Hamberger has published six poetry pamphlets and four full-length collections. Blue Wallpaper (Waterloo Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 Polari Prize. His prose memoir with poems A Length of Road: finding myself in the footsteps of John Clare was published in 2021. He has been shortlisted and highly commended in the Forward prizes, and his poetry has appeared in a number of international anthologies, as well as in The Guardian as a Poem of the Week. He has also received a Hawthornden Fellowship.
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Susan Hamlyn
Susan Hamlyn has published two collections of poetry, The Only Thing Untouched (Flarestack, 2000) and Quiet Myth (Mattock Press, 2000). Her poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. She lives in London.
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Mary Stewart Hammond
Mary Stewart Hammond is an American poet. Her first collection Out of Canaan was published in 1993 and her most recent Entering History (which chronicles a long marriage) in 2016. She teaches poetry Masterclasses in New York where she lives.
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