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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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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Kathy Morgan
Kathy Morgan is an artist who lives in Llandeilo in South West Wales. Many of her naïve and vivid paintings reflect her early childhood memories of growing up on a farm and there is often an element of humour in her work. She has exhibited at the Albany Gallery Summer Exhibition in Cardiff and at London’s Russell Gallery.
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Pete Morgan
Pete Morgan (1939 – 2010) published five collections of poetry and several pamphlets. His first collection was The Grey Mare Being the Better Steed (Secker and Warburg, 1973). He also made a couple of TV series for the BBC, including A Voyage Between Two Seas (1983) about a journey across Northern England via the region’s waterways. For much of his life he lived in Robin Hood’s Bay near Whitby in North Yorkshire.
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David Morley
David Morley is a poet and ecologist with a background in zoology. He has published several full collections, including most recently The Magic of What’s There (Carcanet, 2017). He is also known for his poetry installations within natural landscapes and for his ‘slow poetry’, such as the work that featured in the Slow Art Trail at Bolton Abbey in North Yorkshire. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Warwick University.
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