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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Vanessa Lampert
Vanessa Lampert is a poet and acupuncturist from Oxfordshire. Her debut pamphlet On Long Loan was published by Live Canon and her first full collection will be published by Seren in Spring 2023. Vanessa has been published widely, including in Magma, The Moth, Spoonfeed, Quince and The Oxford Times. She has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University and Poetry School London.
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Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin (1922 – 85) was a major British poet famed for his “piquant mixture of lyricism and discontent” (Jean Hartley, Marvell Press). Born in Coventry, he studied English at the University of Oxford, and worked as a librarian, most notably at the library of the University of Hull from 1955. His collection of poetry, The North Ship (1945), The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1965) and High Windows (1974), established him as a leading and much-loved poet, despite his relatively slim output. He was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1965 and offered – though he declined the offer – the post of Poet Laureate in 1984.
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Leah Larwood
Leah Larwood is a poet, magazine writer and trainee gestalt psychotherapist and poetry therapist. Her work has been widely published by a number of literary magazines and placed in various competitions. Her poems often explore dreams and sleep and have been described as “dark, mythical and haunting”. She lives on the edge of the Norfolk Broads with her partner, eight year-old daughter and their chatty chocolate-point Siamese.
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Tariq Latif
Tariq Latif was born in Pakistan. He studied Physics at Sheffield University before joining the family printing business in Manchester, where he worked for fifteen years. He now works part-time in telephone sales on the West Coast of Scotland, where he takes the landscape as inspiration for his verse. His most recent collection is The Minister’s Garden, published by Arc Publications (2008).
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 – 1906) was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Much of Dunbar’s popular work was written in Negro dialect, although he also wrote in conventional English. He is considered to be the most important African American poet to have favoured the sonnet form. His final collection Joggin’ Erlong was published in 1906.
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DH Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence (1885 – 1930) grew up in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the son of a miner. He travelled widely and wrote many poems during his lifetime, also being the author of several novels, including The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920) and his last and most infamous novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, published in 1928.
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