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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Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield (1888 – 1923) was a prominent writer of short fiction born and brought up in New Zealand, who also wrote poetry. She moved to Great Britain in 1908, where she became close friends with a circle of writers which included D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, and published several collections of short stories as well as some poems. After contracting tuberculosis, she died aged 34 years.
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Arjunan Manuelpillai
Arjunan Manuellpillai is a poet and creative facilitator based in London. His debut pamphlet Mutton Rolls was published by Out-Spoken Press in 2020 and a full collection Improvised Explosive Device is due in October 2002. He has worked extensively with community arts projects both in the UK and abroad.
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Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare (1873 – 1956) was an English poet, short story writer, novelist and critic, who first worked as an office clerk, becoming a full-time writer in 1908. He is best remembered for his works for children, including his classic collection of children’s poetry, Peacock Pie.
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Lorraine Mariner
Lorraine Mariner lives in London and works at the National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre. She has published two collections with Picador, Furniture (2009) and There Will Be No More Nonsense (2014) and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize twice, for Best Single Poem and Best First Collection, and for the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize. Her most recent publication is the poetry chapbook, Anchorage with Grey Suit Editions (2020).
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Jehane Markham
Jehane Markham is a musician, lyricist and poet. She has published several collections including Thirty poems (Rough Winds, 2004). The Jehane Markham Trio has also recorded CDs such as Vladivostok to Moscow inspired by a seven-day journey on the Trans Siberian railway which draws on contemporary gypsy jazz, Russian folk and classical music.
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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593) was a major Elizabethan poet, translator and playwright and an exact contemporary of Shakespeare. He was a pioneer of blank verse which became the standard form for verse drama in the Elizabethan era. One of his most successful works was the play Tamburlaine which was widely imitated and in which the lead was played by the actor Edward Alleyn for whom Marlowe wrote several parts.
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