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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Paul Henry
Paul Henry is one of Wales’s leading poets. The author of six collections of verse, all published by Seren Books, he has read at festivals across the UK and Europe. Originally a songwriter, Henry has guest-edited Poetry Wales and recently presented the ‘Inspired’ series of arts programmes for BBC Radio Wales.
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Stuart Henson
Stuart Henson is a British poet and playwright. His most recent collection is Feast of Fools (Shoestring 2015). This is a collaboration with scraperboard artist Bill Sanderson which features a sequence of fourteen poems based on medieval misericords. A New and Selected Poems entitled The Way You Know is forthcoming from Shoestring in 2018.
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WN Herbert
W. N. Herbert was born in Dundee and is a poet, academic and translator. He writes in both Scots and English and his poetry is alive with humour, wit and ideas. He has published several poetry collections, including Bad Shaman Blues (Bloodaxe, 2006) and Omnesia (Bloodaxe, 2013) which was published in twin editions as the ‘alternative text’ and the ‘remix’.
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Oliver Herford
Oliver Herford (1863 – 1935) was an American writer who during his lifetime was sometimes compared to Oscar Wilde. He was born in Sheffield but moved to Chicago as a child and spent many years in New York. He was an illustrator and poet, often writing whimsical verse full of wordplay and unexpected rhymes. He also wrote for children and often illustrated his books himself e.g. A Kitten’s Garden of Verses published in 1911.
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Tania Hershman
Tania Hershman is a queer writer of odd things. Her second poetry collection, Still Life With Octopus, is published by Nine Arches Press (July 2022) and her debut novel, Go On, by Broken Sleep Books (November 2022). Tania is also the author of two pamphlets, three short story collections, and a hybrid book inspired by particle physics.
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Dorothy Hewett
Dorothy Hewett (1923 – 2002) was a feminist poet, novelist and playwright, often lauded as one of Australia’s favourite writers. She starting writing poems as a child although her first major collection Windmill Country wasn’t published until 1968. In the last decade of her life she lived in the Blue Mountains and her final collection Halfway up the Mountain draws on this unique landscape and her memories of her childhood.
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