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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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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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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