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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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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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.
