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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Edna St Vincent Millay
Edna St Vincent Millay (1892 –1950), born in Rockland, Maine, USA, was a poet and playwright, known for her sonnets and activism. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the third woman to do so, and was also awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry in 1943.
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Kei Miller
Kei Miller was born in Jamaica and read English at the University of the West Indies before coming to the UK to complete an MA. He is a poet, short story writer and novelist and his first collection Kingdom of Empty Bellies was published in 2006. He edited Carcanet’s New Caribbean Poetry Anthology which showcased Caribbean identities and experiences. His most recent collection is Things I Have Withheld (Canongate 2021).
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Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan (1918 – 2002) was a popular and much-loved comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. He wrote and edited numberous books and frequently appeared on radio and television. He was well known as a writer of comic verse, much of it written for children, including Silly Verse for Kids (1959).
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David Mills
David Mills is an American poet and actor. He studied Economics and Theatre at Yale before a three-year post as Writer-in-Residence at Langston Hughes’s home. He has published four collections of poetry, most recently After Mistic (New Feral Press, 2019).
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Robert Minhinnick
Robert Minhinnick is a Welsh poet, essayist, translator and environmentalist. His most recent collections include New Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2012) and Diary of the Last Man (Carcanet, 2017) which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. A novel, Sea Holly, was published by Seren in 2007 and shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize.
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Adrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell (1932 – 2008) was a prolific poet, novelist, journalist and playwright. He completed his National Service in the RAF, which he said confirmed his natural pacifism and was firmly associated with left-wing politics in his writings and in editorial roles. He wrote poetry for children as well as adults, and a collection of his poetry, Tell Me Lies: Poems 2005 – 2008 was published posthumously in 2009.
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