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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Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard started life as an art critic and her poetry bears the hallmarks of her interest in the visual and in the telling detail. Her first poetry collection was published in 1994 and her latest is The Forgetting and Remembering of Air (Salt, 2013). Her poems have been read on Radio 3 and Radio 4 and she has contributed to several arts programmes.
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Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 – 1861) was an English poet who moved to the US with his parents as a child. He returned to the UK to attend Rugby School before spending time in Paris (during the 1848 revolution). His poetic output was small and much of it was published after his relatively early death. He wrote a few long narrative poems but best known are his short poems such as ‘Through A Glass Darkly’ and ‘Say not the Struggle Nought Availeth.’
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) was an American poet who also wrote fiction, drama, short stories and essays. He traveled widely, his work influenced by blues and jazz, and was particularly influential during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. He was a prolific author, publishing many works during his lifetime.
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Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (1930 – 1998) was a major British poet of the twentieth century. Born in Yorkshire, his poems draw on the natural world in which he grew up hunting and fishing around farms and moors. He was married to the American poet Sylvia Plath until her death in 1963. He published numerous collections of poetry to unanimous critical acclaim and was an inspiration and mentor to many younger poets. In 1984 he was appointed Poet Laureate, a position he held until his death.
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Joanna Ingham
Joanna Ingham writes both poetry and fiction. She has published two pamphlets: Ovarium (The Emma Press, 2022) which was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards and Naming Bones (ignitionpress, 2019). She is the recipient of a Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England.
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Lucy Ingrams
Lucy Ingrams’ pamphlet, Light-fall (2019) was published by Flarestack Poets and a collection, Signs (2023) by Live Canon. Awards for her work include the Manchester Poetry Prize (2015). She is based in Oxford.
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