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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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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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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