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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Rebecca McClanahan
Rebecca McClanahan is an American writer, poet and educator. She has published memoirs and books of essays about creative writing. Her first poetry collection was Mother Tongue published in 1987 by University of Florida Press. Deep Light: New and Selected Poems, 1987-2007 (Iris Books, 2007) followed in 2007.
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John McCrae
Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae (1872 – 1918) was a Canadian doctor, teacher and poet who grew up in Ontario. ‘In Flanders Fields’ is his most famous poem and it is almost the last one that he wrote. He was involved in the Second Battle of Ypres, during which one of his close friends was killed. The poem was inspired by noticing poppies blooming on the makeshift graves the day after his friend was buried.
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John McCullough
John McCullough lives in Hove on the south coast. His latest book of poems, Reckless Paper Birds (Penned in the Margins) won the 2020 Hawthornden prize for literature and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award.
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Paul McDonald
Paul McDonald taught at the University of Wolverhampton for 25 years, where he ran the Creative Writing Programme, before taking early retirement in 2019. He is the author of 20 books to date, which includes fiction, poetry and scholarship. His most recent poetry collection is 60 Poems (Greenwich Exchange Press, 2023)
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Beth McDonough
Beth McDonough is a Dundee-based poet who co-hosts Platform Sessions in Fife. Her pamphlet Lamping for pickled fish is published by 4Word. Makar of the Federation of Writers (Scotland) in 2022, currently she’s working on a hybrid project on outdoor swimming, and a collaborative collection with Nikki Robson. Both books are scheduled for publication this year.
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Gill McEvoy
Gill McEvoy lives in Devon. She won the 2015 Michael Marks Award for The First Telling (Happenstance Press). She has also published two collections with Cinnamon Press: The Plucking Shed (2010) and Rise (2013). She is one of six featured poets in Caboodle published by Prole Books and is also a Hawthornden Fellow.
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