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 700 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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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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Linda Hogan
Linda Hogan was born in Denver, Colorado and is the Chickasaw Nation Writer-In-Residence. She is a novelist, essayist and environmentalist and has published several collections of poetry, many of which reflect her spiritual and environmental concerns. Dark. Sweet. New and Selected Poems was published in 2014.
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Matthew Hollis
Matthew Hollis was born in Norwich in 1971, and is an author and editor. His first poetry collection, Ground Water, was published in 2004 and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread Prize for Poetry and the Forward Prize. His biography of the poet Edward Thomas, Now All Roads Lead to France, won the Costa Biography Award and the H. W. Fisher Biography Prize.
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