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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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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Grevel Lindop
Grevel Lindop lives in Manchester and was professor of Romantic and Early Victorian Studies at Manchester University before taking up writing full-time. He has published several poetry collections and also writes reviews, articles, biography and travel books. His Literary Guide to the Lake District was reissued in 2005.
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Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 – 1870) was born in England but emigrated to Australia when he was 20. He became a member of the mounted police, then a horse-breaker and steeplechase rider and later a politician. Two volumes of his poetry were published in 1867: Ashtaroth and Sea Spray and Smoke Drift. These were followed by Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes in 1870. That same year and following a spell of financial hardship he took his own life.
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Pippa Little
Pippa Little is a Scottish poet now based in the north east. She has a PhD in contemporary women’s poetry from London University. A pamphlet, The Spar Box, was published by Vane Women in 2006 and was a PBS Pamphlet Choice. Her latest full collection, Twist, was published by Arc in 2017. Pippa was the winner of our robin postcard poem competition and her poem ‘Brou-Rhuddyn’ was produced as a limited edition postcard in 2018.
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