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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John Harris
John Harris (1820 – 1884) was a Cornish poet. As a child he worked at Dolcoath Mine writing poetry as he grew older. In his early career, he couldn’t afford pen and paper and improvised with blackberry juice for ink and grocery bags for paper. His poems celebrate the wild beauty of Land’s End and The Lizard. In 1879 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of his literary achievements.
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Susan Harris
Susan Harris studied English and Creative Writing at Leeds University and was active on the Yorkshire Poetry scene until her death in 2019.
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Tony Harrison
Tony Harrison is a major poet and playwright whose work has generated huge interest and at times controversy. Originally from Leeds, has has for some time lived in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His best known poem is ‘V’, which, when televised on Channel 4, created a sensation uncharacteristic for poetry at that time. He has also translated Greek classic plays, such as the Oresteia and Hecuba as well as The Mysteries, his adaptation of medieval Mystery Plays which were performed at the National Theatre in 1985.
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Clarinda Harriss
Clarinda Harriss is an American poet and fiction writer. She has published nine books including her poetry collection Innumerable Moons (Beignet Books, 2019) which explores the years she spent caring for an Alzheimer’s sufferer. She is Professor Emerita at Towson University near Baltimore and continues to run independent publisher Brickhouse Books which she co-founded in the 1970s.
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Celia Hart
Celia Hart studied illustration and design at Brighton College of Art and Design and has worked as a freelance illustrator since 1991. She lives and works in a small village in Suffolk, creating block prints and designs inspired by the East Anglian landscape. Her prints of animals, birds and gardens are hand-printed using traditional techniques, inspired by Japanese and Chinese printmakers and the English tradition of the illustrative print.
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David Hart
David Hart (1940 – 2022) was a poet who grew up in rural Wales but lived for most of his life in Birmingham. He won several major prizes, including the National Poetry Competition in 1994 and was Poet in Residence at Worcester Cathedral in 1998-99. His collection Library Inspector was published by Nine Arches Press in 2015.
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