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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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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Roger McGough
Roger McGough was born in Liverpool in 1937. He sold over a million records as one of The Scaffold in the late 1960s, and has since led a wide-ranging and successful poetry career, publishing over forty poetry collections for children and adults. He was made President of the Poetry Society in December 2011 and presents Radio 4’s Poetry, Please.
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Victoria McGrane
Victoria McGrane is an Australian artist and designer based in Burketown, North Queensland. Her intricate and delicate illustrations are inspired by her love of travel and capture the flora and fauna of her native country. Her background is in the visual arts but she now works equally in textile design and has collaborated with a number of major brands in Australia and Europe.
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Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast in 1950 and studied at Queen’s University, Belfast, with Seamus Heaney. She was a winner of an Eric Gregory award, and her first collection, The Flower Master (1982) won the Poetry Society’s Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Other prizes include the Forward Prize for Best Poem for ‘She is in the Past, She Has This Grace’ and the Bass Ireland Award for Literature.
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