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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Seán Hewitt
Seán Hewitt read English at Cambridge University. His pamphlet Lantern (Offord Road Books, 2019) was a Poetry Book Society Choice. A full collection is forthcoming from Cape. He also reviews fiction for The Irish Times and is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin.
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Selima Hill
Selima Hill comes from a family of painters and her poems are certainly highly visual – often surreal. Her first collection, Saying Hello at the Station, was published in 1984 and she has since published 15 further collections (including two Selected Poems). The most recent is People Who Like Meatballs (2012), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
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Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch is an American poet who has a PhD in Folklore. His tenth poetry collection Stranger by Night (Knopf, 2020) explores old age and contains elegies to many poet friends. He is also the author of five prose books, several about poetry and reading poetry. Poet’s Choice (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006) contains the popular columns he wrote for the Washington Post.
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Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield is a multi-award winning poet, essayist and translator, particularly of the work of early women poets. Her latest collection of poetry is The Beauty (2015), which followed Come, Thief (2011) and After (2006), shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. She was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2012.
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Tony Hoagland
Tony Hoagland (1953 – 2018) was a prolific American poet who won many awards. Many of his collections have with wittily entertaining titles (such as What Narcissism Means to Me which was a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003). His take on contemporary life is often wry but he never fails to celebrate small joys.
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Philip Hodgins
Philip Hodgins (1959 – 1995) grew up on a farm in rural Australia. In 1983, he was diagnosed with leukaemia and began to write poetry. His first publication, Blood and Bone (1986), won the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry. He wrote four further collections and a verse novella before his death in 1995, and his Selected Poems was published in 1997.
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