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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Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane is well-known as a writer about landscape and the natural world. His prose books include Mountains of the Mind (Granta, 2008) and The Old Ways (Penguin, 2013) about ancient footpaths and rights of way. The Lost Words (Hamish Hamilton, 2017) is a picture book collaboration with the artist Jackie Morris, celebrating the power of words that belong to the natural world. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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Hilke MacIntyre
Hilke MacIntyre was born in Germany and studied architecture at the College for Art & Design in Kiel before moving to Scotland in 1995. Since then she has concentrated on printing, painting and ceramics. Her work is widely exhibited in galleries throughout Britain and has been selected many times for the annual show at the Royal Scottish Academy.
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Gearóid MacLochlainn
Gearóid MacLochlainn was born in Belfast in 1966 and writes in both English and Irish. His third poetry book, Sruth Teangacha / Stream of Tongues (2002), is a dual-language collection. As well as being writer-in-residence at both Queens University and the University of Ulster, he has written books for children in Irish and regularly gives workshops, readings and interviews about Irish language arts in Northern Ireland.
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Alice Maher
Alice Maher was born in County Tipperary, Ireland. She is widely celebrated for her work across a range of media, including sculpture and photography, as well for her remarkable drawings and paintings. The long flowing hair that features in the Ten Poems from Ireland cover image ‘Born Seeing’ is a recurring motif in her work. Maher was elected to Asodána, which recognises leading Irish artists and writers and has completed residencies at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and in Paris. Her solo exhibition ‘Glorious Maids of the Charnel House’ was held at the Purdy Hicks Gallery in London in 2016.
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Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon (1941 – 2020) was born in Belfast and was regarded as one of the most significant and innovative poets of his generation. As well as award-winning essays and translations, he published many poetry collections including Life on Earth (2008) and An Autumn Wind (2010), both with The Gallery Press. A New Selected Poems was published by Faber in 2016.
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Nick Makoha
Nick Makoha published his debut collection Kingdom of Gravity in 201. It was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and was a Guardian’s Book of the Year. He won the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and the 2016 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Prize for his pamphlet Resurrection Man. His poems have appeared in numerous journals including the Cambridge Review, the New York Times, Poetry Review, TriQuarterly Review, Boston Review, Callaloo and Wasafiri. He is a Trustee for the Arvon Foundation and the Ministry of Stories, a member of the Malika’s Poetry Kitchen collective and founder of The Obsidian Foundation.
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