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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Kathy Miles
Kathy Miles lives in West Wales. Her work has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, and her fourth full collection, Bone House, was published by Indigo Dreams in 2020.
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Rob Miles
Rob Miles is from Devon and he lives in Leeds. His poetry has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, and he has won various competitions including the Philip Larkin Prize, judged by Don Paterson, the Resurgence International Ecopoetry (now Ginkgo) Prize, judged by Imtiaz Dharker and Jo Shapcott, and the Poets & Players Prize, judged by Sinéad Morrissey. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, One Hand Clapping, Stand, and Masculini
ty: An Anthology of Modern Voices (Broken Sleep Books). Rob was also the winner of a recent Candlestick Christmas postcard poem competition and his poem ‘The little town’ was produced as a limited edition postcard in 2018. Featured in
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Sue Millard
Sue Millard is a poet, novelist and award-winning non fiction author whose ‘day job’ is mostly about editing and web design. She lives on a small Cumbrian farm, with husband, dog, cat and two Fell ponies.
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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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