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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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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Melissa Lhoirit
Melissa Lhoirit is a freelance graphic designer, illustrator and printmaker living and working in Cambridge. She studied applied arts and visual communication in France. Under the artist name Meliprints, she creates limited edition of linocut prints using traditional techniques and is inspired by scenes of daily life and nocturnal atmosphere. Her art often captures people experiencing the joy and magic of music and dance.
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Joanne Limburg
Joanne Limburg was born in London, and now lives in Cambridge. Her published collections include Femenismo, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and Paraphernalia, both published by Bloodaxe Books. In 2010 she published her memoir, The Woman Who Thought Too Much.
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Ada Limón
Ada Limón is an American poet who has published five collections since her first in 2006. Her latest The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) was named by the Washington Post named as one of its top five poetry books of the year. She studied creative writing at New York University and now teaches at Queens University of Charlotte. Her poems have also appeared in The New Yorker and Harvard Review.
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