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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Geoffrey Holloway
Geoffrey Holloway (1918 – 1997) was a poet and social worker. He was a pacifist but as a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps was parachuted into France on D-Day and also took part in the Rhine Landings – experiences that informed his first collection Rhine Jump. For the last 45 years of his life he lived and worked in Cumbria, publishing his last book shortly before his death. The Collected Poems of Geoffrey Holloway, edited by David Morley, was published by Arrowhead Press in 2007.
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Kevin Holloway
Kevin Holloway was born in south London, grew up in the West Midlands and now lives in Bradford, Yorkshire. Kevin has worked in schools, colleges, and universities in the north of England. His writing is currently focused on a collection of poetry with the working title ‘Out of Place’.
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Winifred Holtby
Winifred Holtby (1898 – 1935) was a poet, journalist and novelist, best known for her novel South Riding which was published posthumously. She produced two collections of poetry, My Garden and The Frozen Earth. She was a lifelong friend of Vera Brittain with whom she shared strong pacifist, socialist and feminist beliefs. When she died she left a small legacy and a collection of her books to the town of Soweto in South Africa where a library was founded in her name.
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Miroslav Holub
Miroslav Holub (1923 – 1998) was the Czech Republic’s most significant poet, and a leading scientist working in immunology. His poetry began to be published in 1958 and often reflects his interest in science and medicine. He also wrote essays on various aspects of science.
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Jeremy Hooker
Jeremy Hooker grew up near Southampton although many of his poems were written in Wales, where he has lived for long periods of his life. As well as publishing numerous collections of poetry – most recently Scattered Light (Enitharmon, 2015) – he is well-known as a critic and has published selections of writings by Edward Thomas and Richard Jefferies and a study of David Jones.
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Rhiannon Hooson
Rhiannon Hooson has won several awards for her work including an Eric Gregory Award. Her first book, The Other City, was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year. She has appeared at literature festivals across the UK, and her work has been featured in the Guardian, Magma and Poetry Wales. She has been a Literature Wales bursary recipient, a Hay Festival Writer at Work, poetry editor of Creative Countryside magazine, and the judge of the PENfro festival poetry competition. She holds a PhD in Poetry from the University of Lancaster, and now lives in the Welsh Marches.
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