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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Liz Kendall
Liz Kendall lives in Surrey where she works as a Shiatsu and massage practitioner and Tai Chi Qigong teacher. She studied English Literature at university and is currently collaborating on a book about food plants with an artist and ethno-botanist. She is also developing her own collections of poetry, essays and wild food recipes.
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Nairn Kennedy
Nairn Kennedy is a Leeds-based poet whose work has appeared in Orbis, Ink Sweat & Tears, The London Magazine, Stand, The North, Spelt and Under the Radar. He’s been a runner-up in the Ilkley Literature Festival Competition, longlisted in the National Poetry Competition, and highly commended in the Bridport, amongst others.
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Brendan Kennelly
Brendan Kennelly, described by the Irish Times as ‘the balladeer of our age’, was born in County Kerry in 1936. He has published over 30 books of poetry, alongside plays, novels and criticism. For thirty years he was Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. His poems are full of people and voices, and music is an abiding theme. His Selected Poems was published by Bloodaxe in 2011.
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Jane Kenyon
Jane Kenyon (1947 – 1995) was an American poet and translator. During her lifetime she published four collections of poetry and spent many years translating the work of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.
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Joanne Key
Joanne Key is a poet and short story writer who lives in Cheshire. Her poetry has been published widely, both online and in print, and she has won a number of prizes including second prize in the National Poetry Competition and the Charles Causley Competition. In 2018 she won the Hippocrates Open Prize. In March 2019 she was announced as winner of the 2018 Mslexia Short Story Competition.
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Mimi Khalvati
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran and grew up on the Isle of Wight. She started writing poetry while bringing up her children and her pamphlet Persian Miniatures (Smith/Doorstop 1990) was a winner of the Poetry Business competition. Her Carcanet collections include In White Ink, Mirrorwork, Entries on Light, The Meanest Flower nd most recently The Weather Wheel. Mimi has been Poet in Residence at the Royal Mail and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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