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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Flora McLachlan
Flora McLachlan is an artist and printmaker living near the Preseli mountains in West Wales. She makes etchings, lithographs and block prints as well as paintings. Her work is inspired by the natural world and by the fairy tales she read in her childhood. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and prints her own work on direct lithograph presses and Rochat etching presses.
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Paul McLoughlin
Paul McLoughlin (1947 – 2021) was born in London of Irish parents and has published four collections of poetry, the most recent being The Hungarian Who Beat Brazil (Shoestring, 2017). He also wrote articles and reviews for various publications, including PN Review and Critical Survey and his poetry is widely anthologised.
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Hugh McMillan
Hugh McMillan is from Penpont in south-west Scotland. He has published five collections of poetry and won a number of prizes, including the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award in 2017 for Sheep Penned. He has been a winner in the Smith/Doorstop Prize and the Cardiff International Poetry Competition, and has also been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award and the Basil Bunting Award.
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Ian McMillan
Ian McMillan is a poet, journalist, playwright and broadcaster and regularly presents BBC Radio 3’s weekly programme The Verb. In the 1970s he was active on the live poetry circuit and went on to publish several collections, both for adults and for children. To Fold the Evening Star: New And Selected Poems was published by Carcanet in 2016. He still lives in the South Yorkshire town where he was born.
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Hazel McNab
Hazel McNab is an artist and printmaker based in Cornwall. She makes reduction linocut prints, depicting wild landscapes as well as local flora and fauna. Many of her coastal images capture the sea’s repeating swirls and ripples, reflecting her fascination with colours and pattern and with light and shadows.
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Allison McVety
Allison McVety has published three collections of poetry, all with Smith/Doorstop. Her first collection, The Night Trotsky Came to Stay (2007), was the overall winner of the 2006 Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition, and was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize in 2008. Her poems have appeared in The Times, The Guardian, Poetry Review and Poetry London, have been broadcast on BBC radio and anthologised in the Forward Poems of the Decade 2002-2011 and The Best British Poetry, 2013. In 2011, she was winner of the National Poetry Competition.
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