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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Katie Hourigan
Katie Hourigan was born in Devon. She is currently studying English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. Her work has been published in the magazines Spelt and Porridge.
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AE Housman
AE Housman (1859 – 1936) was a classical scholar and poet, best known for his lyrical cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad published in 1896. The cycle of 63 poems includes a number which came to be closely associated with the First World War – perhaps because of their preoccupation with mortality and their celebration of a pastoral ideal. The poems were written while Housman was living in London and before he had even been to Shropshire, but remain popular to this day.
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Henry Howard
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517 – 1547) was the oldest son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Elizabeth Stafford. He and Sir Thomas Wyatt were the first English poets to write in the sonnet form later used by Shakespeare, and Surrey was the first English poet to publish work in blank verse, in his translation of the second and fourth books of Virgil’s Aeneid.
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Sarah Howe
Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. She was born in Hong Kong to a Chinese mother and an English father and moved to the UK as a child. Her first poetry collection Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, 2015) was shortlisted for numerous awards and won the TS Eliot Prize.
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Rae Howells
Rae Howells is a poet, journalist, academic and lavender farmer from Swansea, south Wales. She has won the Rialto and Welsh poetry competitions and been featured in journals including Magma, The Rialto, Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Acumen and Poetry Ireland. She co-authored the pamphlet Bloom & Bones (Hedgehog) and has also published a solo collection The language of bees (Parthian).
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Steven Hubbard
Steven Hubbard specialises in linocut printmaking, painting and marquetry-based constructions. He taught Fine Art for many years and has exhibited widely, initially as a portrait artist.He has held numerous one-man exhibitions at galleries in London and his work often reflects his interest in the sea and in the literature of the inter-war period.
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