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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Michael Hartnett
Michael Hartnett (1941 – 1999) is one of Ireland’s best-loved poets. His first collection, Anatomy of a Cliché, was published while he was still in his twenties. He wrote in both Irish and English and also translated a number of medieval Irish poets into English. He won numerous awards, including the Irish Poetry Prize, a Poetry Ireland Choice Award and the American Ireland Fund Award. His Collected Poems are published by The Gallery Press.
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Robert Hass
Robert Hass is a poet, critic and translator. He was born in San Francisco and is one of America’s most widely-read poets. His first collection Field Guide (1973) immediately established him as an important voice and was US Poet Laureate from 1995 – 1997. His most recent collection is The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems, (Ecco Press, New York 2011).
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Geoff Hattersley
Geoff Hattersley (1956 – 2024) lived in Yorkshire. His poetry collections include Don’t Worry (Bloodaxe, 1994) which was praised for its tragi-comic portrayals of lives in the post-industrial landscape of South Yorkshire. Between 1986 and 1998 he edited the Wide Skirt literary journal with his wife Jeanette, publishing more than 300 writers, many for the first time.
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Caroline Hawkridge
Caroline Hawkridge lives in Cheshire. She wrote women’s health books (Little Brown, Penguin) before turning to her love of poetry. Her poems have been published by small press magazines such as The Dark Horse, The Interpreter’s House and Magma, and Highly Commended by the national Magma, York and Torbay competitions. Her prize-winning poems about bog plants are engraved in the Moorland Discovery Centre. She works freelance as a project manager, agent and researcher for well-established writers.
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Mark Haworth-Booth
Mark Haworth-Booth was born in Yorkshire and grew up in Sussex. He is a poet who was a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) from 1970-2004. He is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the V&A and a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art. His debut poetry collection is The Thermobaric Playground (Dempsey and Windle, 2022).
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Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden was a twentieth-century American poet who became the first African American to be appointed as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. His poetry collections span nearly forty years, beginning with Heart-Shape in the Dust in 1940 and ending with American Journal in 1978, published two years before he died. One of his abiding preoccupations was black history and experience and the importance of his work has been widely recognised. He received a number of awards including the Academy of American Poets Fellowship.
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