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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Elizabeth Bartlett
Elizabeth Bartlett (1924 – 2008) wrote eight poetry collections, including the acclaimed retrospective Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Two Women Dancing: New & Selected Poems (1995). She worked for a long time in the health service, as a doctor’s receptionist, and for the Home Care Service, an environment which provided her with material for some of her most moving poems.
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Ellen Bass
Ellen Bass is an American poet and non-fiction writer who now lives in California. She gained an MA in Poetry from Boston University where she studied with Anne Sexton. Her poetry collections include Mules of Love (BOA Editions Ltd., 2002) and Like a Beggar (Copper Canyon Press, 2014). She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches creative writing.
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Kate Bass
Kate Bass is a British poet who works as an illustrator. Her published collections include a pamphlet Onion House (Many Press, 1996) and a full collection The Pasta Maker (Smith Doorstop, 2003). Her poetry is infused with precise observations of everyday life and explores themes of family relationships and parenthood.
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Sophie Bass
Sophie Bass is a London-based illustrator of mixed British and Trinidadian heritage. She creates vivid images which are inspired by her love of music, reflecting themes of social justice, mythology and symbolism.
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Paul Batchelor
Paul Batchelor was born in Northumberland and is a poet and critic. His first collection of poems, The Sinking Road, was published by Bloodaxe in 2008. He has won the Times Stephen Spender Prize for Translation and the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Prize, and he writes criticism for the Guardian and the TLS.
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Lotte Beatrix Crawford
Lotte Beatrix Crawford is an illustrator and printmaker. She is also an art historian and academic with an interest in early 20th century women textile artists. Books about Tirzah Garwood and Enid Marx are forthcoming.
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