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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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) was an English poet who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1866, later becoming a Jesuit priest and teacher. His poetic output was slim, but innovative, breaking tradition with his use of ‘sprung rhythm’. His poetry was published posthumously and he has since become acknowledged as a leading Victorian poet.
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Adam Horovitz
Adam Horovitz was born in London. His debut collection, Turning, was published in 2011 and his memoir of growing up in Cider with Rosie country, A Thousand Laurie Lees, was published by the History Press in 2014. He was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2012. In 2015 he was appointed as the second Herefordshire Poet-in-Residence, and also included in the pan-European Versopolis poetry project by Ledbury Poetry Festival.
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Frances Horovitz
Frances Horovitz (1938 – 1983) was a British poet and broadcaster. She published four collections of poems, including Water Over Stone (Enitharmon, 1980). A Collected Poems was edited by her husband the poet and critic Roger Garfitt and published posthumously in 1985.
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Michael Horovitz
Michael Horovitz (1935 – 2021) was a British editor and poet who was closely linked with the Beat generation of the 1950s and 1960s. He believed that poetry should be freed from the printed page and that it has the power to challenge the establishment. He collaborated with musicians such as Paul Weller and was often to be seen walking round west London in his signature brightly-coloured outfits.
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Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote is an Indian poet and art critic. He was born in Mumbai and began to publish poetry in the 1990s. His most recent collection is The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (Arc, 2019) which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He has also translated the 14th century Kashmiri mystical poet Lal Ded for Penguin Classics and edited an anthology of contemporary Indian poetry.
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Phil Houghton
Phil Houghton is a poet and keen fell-walker, based in the Ullswater area of Cumbria. His work is often influenced by wild landscapes and he has been widely published in both anthologies and poetry magazines. His poem ‘Ark’ about a dipper was highly commended by Alice Oswald in the Words by the Water/Mirehouse poetry competition.
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