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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William Meredith
William Meredith (1919 – 2007) was an American poet who won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was also a translator of Bulgarian and French poetry. He spent much of his life in New England, His first collection Love Letter from an Impossible Land (Yale University Press, 1944) was published when he was a young naval officer. He went on to publish several other collections, including two after suffering a major stroke. The William Meredith Foundation continues his legacy by promoting the reading and writing of poetry.
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James Merrill
James Merrill (1926 – 1995) was a New York-born poet who published his first collection The Black Swan at the age of only 20. In the course of his career he received numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for Divine Comedies (1976). He believed that his inspiration came from the world beyond and was a follower of mysticism and the occult.
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Matt Merritt
Matt Merritt is a wildlife journalist and editor of Birdwatching magazine. His poetry collections include The Elephant Tests (2013) and Troy Town (2008). His recent prose memoir, A Sky Full of Birds (2016), explores his passion for birdwatching.
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WS Merwin
WS Merwin (1927 – 2019) was a prolific poet, writer and translator. He was US poet laureate from 2010 – 2011, won two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award. His first collection was A Mask for Janus (Yale University Press, 1952) and his last was Garden Time (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). In later years, he was known for his work as a conservationist on the remote plantation in Hawaii where he lived alone, refusing to answer the telephone.
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Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell (1847 – 1922) was a British essayist and poet who was much admired by Tennyson. She and her sister, a painter, spent their bohemian childhood partly in Italy. Meynell published her first book of poems, Preludes, in 1875, under her maiden name Thompson. She worked for women’s suffrage and her poems reflect her feminist concerns as well as her response to the events of World War I.
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Linda Middleton
Linda Middleton lives in the south east of England and much of her poetry is written for children. Her work has been published widely online and in journals and anthologies. In her spare time, she can be found wandering in her local woods and watching wildlife.
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