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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L Kiew
L Kiew lives in London and is of Chinese-Malaysian descent. She works as an accountant but finds time for poetry and her work has been widely published in magazines including The Scores and The North. Her debut pamphlet The Unquiet was published by Offord Road Books in 2019.
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Cathy King
Cathy King is an artist and printmaker. She predominately produces limited edition linocut prints using both the reduction and multi-block technique. The images in her linocuts employ strong line and bold shapes to produce semi abstract and figurative representations. She takes her inspiration from both the natural and urban landscapes and shows her work widely in galleries across the UK.
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Jenny King
Jenny King is a British poet who was born during the London Blitz and began writing poetry as a child. She studied English at Cambridge and went on to become a teacher. She has published three pamphlets and her first full collection is Moving Day (Carcanet, 2021). She lives in Sheffield.
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Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (1927 – 2014) was an American writer and translator who published ten collections of poetry. In 1982, his Selected Poems won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and in 2002, he was awarded the Frost Medal by the Poetry Society of America. He taught at New York University for many years and after his retirement lived in Vermont.
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John Kinsella
John Kinsella is an Australian writer who has published more than 20 collections of poetry as well as fiction and plays. His poetry features the landscape of western Australia and has won many awards. His most recent collection is Insomnia (Picador, 2016).
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Sarah Kirby
Sarah Kirby is an artist and printmaker. She works from her own studio in central Leicester and at Leicester Print Workshop where she has been a member and tutor for over 20 years. In 2012 she was awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Artist in Residence (AIR) award. She was also artist in residence at the Centre for Urban Studies at the University of Leicester from 2012-2014.
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