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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Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875 – 1935) was an American poet, born in New Orleans. She was of African American, Anglo, Native American and Creole descent – a complex heritage that is reflected in her work. She campaigned actively for civil rights and women’s suffrage, as well as being a journalist, short-story writer, and playwright.
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Cat Moore
Cat Moore is an artist and (self – taught) linocut printmaker based in Orkney. Her work is informed by her love of wild landscapes and her interest in folklore. She has exhibited at a number of art fairs and print shows across Scotland.
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Hubert Moore
Hubert Moore taught for forty years, after which he spent nine years as a writing mentor at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. He is the author of a number of poetry collections, including The Bright Gaze of the Disoriented (2014); Whistling Back (2012); and Happiness Crouching There (2011).
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Kim Moore
Kim Moore lives in Cumbria and is currently a PhD student exploring how to write poetry about sexism. Her first full length collection The Art of Falling was published by Seren in 2015 and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves was chosen as an Independent Book of the Year. Kim Moore’s poems are energised by startling details of the natural world, as well as being intensely human.
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Edwin Morgan
Edwin Morgan (1920 – 2010) was born in Glasgow and lived there for most of his life. He was the city’s first Poet Laureate from 1999 – 2002 and in 2004 went on to become the first Scots ‘Makar’. He published numerous poetry collections, his last being A Book of Lives (Carcanet, 2007). He is considered to be one of the most influential poets of his generation and his archive is held at the Scottish Poetry Library.
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Esther Morgan
Esther Morgan has published three collections with Bloodaxe Books, including Beyond Calling Distance which won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and most recently Grace, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011. She started writing poetry while working as a volunteer at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, Cumbria and after completing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, stayed on to teach undergraduates. She is Historic Recordings Manager for the Poetry Archive, and lives in Suffolk.
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