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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Choman Hardi
Choman Hardi was born in Kurdistan and lived in Iraq and Iran before seeking asylum in the UK in 1993. She has published poetry in both Kurdish and English and several of her poems have been included on the GCSE English curriculum. In 2014 her poem ‘Summer Roof’ was chosen by the Southbank Centre in London as one of the 50 greatest love poems of the last 50 years. Her latest collection is Considering the Women (Bloodaxe, 2015).
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Kerry Hardie
Kerry Hardie is an Irish poet and novelist who lives in County Kilkenny. She has published numerous poetry collections with Gallery Press in Ireland and her eighth Where Now Begins was published in the UK by Bloodaxe in 2020. She has won many prizes including the National Poetry Prize (Ireland) and the Michael Hartnett Award. She is a member of Aosdána.
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Angela Harding
Angela Harding is an illustrator and printmaker whose work is inspired by the flora and fauna of the British countryside. The studio in her garden overlooks open farmland which often forms the backdrop for her work. Her book A Year Unfolding (Little Brown, 2021) is a record of the changing seasons in and around Rutland where she is based.
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) was an English novelist and poet, born in Dorset. He is the author of several major classic novels, including The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1896). He turned to writing poetry in later life, after the death of Emma, his first wife.
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David Harmer
David Harmer lives in Doncaster. He has been writing stories and poems for children and adults for many years, appearing on radio and television and performing in the poetry duo Spill the Beans with Paul Cookson. His collection The Spinner’s Final Over was published in 1985.
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Clifford Harper
Clifford Harper was born in London and is a self-taught graphic artist. His bold illustrations resemble woodcuts, but in fact are created using pencil, pen and ink. His work has appeared in many leading UK newspapers, most frequently in The Guardian. An anarchist since the 1960s he was one of the founders of the famous Eel Pie Island commune.
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