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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Kate Innes
Kate Innes trained as an archaeologist and museum educator before turning to writing. She won the Imagined Worlds Poetry Prize 2016 and the WPF Festival in a Book Prize in 2023. Her first poetry collection, Flocks of Words, was shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award in 2018, as was her first children’s book, Greencoats, in 2022. She is also the author of The Arrowsmith Trilogy of medieval novels.
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Georgy Ivanov
Georgy Ivanov (1894 – 1958) was a member of the Russian Guild of Poets and began his career writing poems that were heavily influenced by Baudelaire and the French Symbolists. He suffered from alcoholism and wrote some of his finest work (‘poems of brilliant despair’ as one critic said) while living in penury and misery in France at the end of his life.
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Helen Ivory
Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her fifth collection is The Anatomical Venus (Bloodaxe, 2019). It was shortlisted for last year’s East Anglian Book Awards, and won the EDP, East Anglian Writers ‘By the Cover Award.’ She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and is a tutor for UEA/NCW online creative writing. A book of mixed media poems Hear What the Moon Told Me is out from KFS and a chapbook Maps of the Abandoned City appeared from SurVision Press in 2019. Her work has been translated into Polish and Ukrainian as part of the Versopolis translation project.
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Rosie Jackson
Rosie Jackson is a poet and tutor living in Teignmouth, Devon. Her latest collection is Love Leans Over the Table (Two Rivers Press, 2023). Widely published, Rosie has won many awards including Commended in the National Poetry Competition 2022. She has taken poetry into a number of community and health settings.
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Sarah Jackson
Sarah Jackson is a poet and academic who teaches at Nottingham Trent University. She is also a BBC AHRC New Generation Thinker. Her first poetry collection Pelt (Bloodaxe, 2012) traces an unsettling journey from infancy to old age and won the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize. It was also longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award.
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Christopher James
Christopher James was born in Paisley, Scotland and educated at Newcastle and UEA. A first prize winner in the National Poetry Competition, the Ledbury, Oxford Brooks and Bridport prizes, he is also a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award. He has published several collections, including Farewell to the Earth (Arc, 2011), and The Fool (Templar, 2014) as well as three Sherlock Holmes novels, including The Adventure of the Beer Barons (MX, 2020). He lives in Suffolk with his family, folding bicycle and ukulele.
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