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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Keith Leonard
Keith Leonard is an American poet who lives in Ohio. His collection Ramshackle Ode was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2016. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, New England Review and Poetry as well as in other journals.
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Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Lermontov (1814 – 1841) is the author of a number of narrative poems including The Corsair (1828) and The Fugitive (1846), as well as the Romantic masterpiece Demon (1939). He was much influenced by Byron and was fascinated by the Russian Middle Ages, as well as having a great love of the natural world. He died in a duel at the age of only 26.
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Angie Lewin
Angie Lewin is an artist, illustrator and printmaker who studied Fine Art Printmaking at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design. She has also studied horticulture. Her work is inspired by the saltmarshes and clifftops of Norfolk, as well as by the Scottish Highlands where she now mostly lives – all depicted in wood engravings, linocuts, silkscreen, lithograph and collage. She is a member of The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, The Society of Wood Engravers and The Royal Watercolour Society.
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John Lewis-Stempel
John Lewis-Stempel was born in Herefordshire and is an author and farmer, who writes on a range of subjects including military history and the natural world. His best-selling books include Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field (2014), winner of the Thwaites Wainwright Prize for Natural Writing. He is a columnist for Country Life and in 2016 was shortlisted for Magazine Columnist of the Year.
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Alun Lewis
Alun Lewis (1915–1944) was a Welsh poet and writer of short fiction. He was well-known for his Second World War poetry, and died on active service during a campaign in Burma, 1944. He published just one poetry collection and a short story in his lifetime, though another poetry collection and short story collection were published posthumously.
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Gwyneth Lewis
Gwyneth Lewis is a prize-winning poet, playwright and novelist, and has also written for opera. National Poet for Wales from 2005-6, she was the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. She has published eight collections of poems in English and Welsh and has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize. In 2012 she was appointed Writing Fellow at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester and from 2012-13 a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Swansea University.
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