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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Cerys Matthews
Cerys Matthews was born in Cardiff. She is a musician, author and broadcaster, presenting radio shows on BBC 6 music, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4. Cerys was a founder member of multi-million selling band Catatonia and in 2014 founded the Good Life Experience festival with Charlie and Caroline Gladstone. In recent years she has curated and composed for the National Theatre and was artistic director of the World Music Expo in 2013. She has been awarded an MBE for her services to music.
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Glyn Maxwell
Glyn Maxwell is a British poet, playwright, novelist, librettist and critic. His most recent poetry collection is Pluto (Picador, 2013). Previous collections have been shortlisted for major prizes including the Geoffrey Faber and the TS Eliot. His most recent book is Drinks with Dead Poets (Oberon Books, 2016) in which great poets from Dickinson to Keats wander around an imaginary university, meeting with the students.
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John McAuliffe
John McAuliffe is an Irish poet who grew up in County Kerry and now lives in Manchester where he co-directs the Centre for New Writing and edits The Manchester Review. He has published four collections of poetry with The Gallery Press, most recently The Way In (2015).
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Karen McCarthy Woolf
Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to English and Jamaican parents. She has published two poetry collections, both to great critical acclaim: An Aviary of Small Birds (Carcanet, 2014) and Seasonal Disturbances (Carcanet, 2017) – the latter partly written while she was Poet In Residence at the National Maritime Museum. She has edited five literary anthologies, been selected for Poems on the Underground and her work has also been dropped from a helicopter over the Houses of Parliament.
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Michael McCarthy
Michael McCarthy (1945 – 2018) was a poet and a Catholic priest who worked in North Yorkshire. He grew up on a farm in Cork and his first poetry collection Birds’ Nests and Other Poems (Bradshaw Books, 2003) won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. He also wrote several children’s books which have been translated into seventeen languages.
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Thomas McCarthy
Thomas McCarthy was born in County Waterford in 1954 and educated at University College Cork. He worked for many years as a librarian before turning to writing full-time. His latest collection, Pandemonium, was published by Carcanet in 2016. His work has been translated into several languages and he has won literary prizes including the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the O’Shaughnessy Poetry Prize.
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