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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Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) was born in new York City of West Indian parents and described herself as a ‘black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,’ writing to address the injustices of racism, sexism and homophobia. Her Collected Poems was published in 1997 and she was Poet Laureate of New York from 1991-1992. She also wrote prose and was an active supporter of women in South Africa under apartheid.
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Hannah Lowe
Hannah Lowe’s first poetry collection Chick (Bloodaxe, 2013) won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection and was shortlisted for the Forward, Aldeburgh and Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prizes. Her second collection Chan was published in 2016. Her family memoir Long Time, No See featured as a Radio 4 Book of the Week.
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Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell (1874 – 1925) was an American poet, translator, performer and editor. Her first collection A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass was published in 1912. She wrote over 650 poems in the space of only twelve years and is also remembered for her work in bringing modernism (and specifically Ezra Pound’s Imagism) to the attention of American readers. She also wrote a 1300-page biography of Keats.
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John Lucas
John Lucas is a poet, critic, biographer and author of literary and critical works. His books include several books of poetry including Flute Music (2006), The Long and the Short Of It (2004) and A World Perhaps: New and Selected Poems (2002). He runs Shoestring Press and is Professor Emeritus at the Universities of Loughborough and Nottingham Trent.
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Aileen Lucia Fisher
Aileen Lucia Fisher (1906 – 2002) is the author of more than one hundred books for children, including poetry, biography, natural history and plays. Her poetry publications include The Coffee-Pot Face (1933), which was a Junior Literary Guild Selection. For more than 30 years she lived on a ranch in Boulder, Colorado surrounded by the rural landscape she loved.
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Roddy Lumsden
Roddy Lumsden (1966 – 2020) was born in St. Andrews to working class parents who instilled in him an early love of reading. He spent the later years of his life in London where he taught at the Poetry School. He published a number of poetry collections with Mischief Night: New and Selected Poems appearing in 2004. His last collection So Glad I’m Me (2017) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize.
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