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 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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William Morris
William Morris (1834 – 1896) was the most influential designer of the nineteenth century. He was also a scholar, publisher, writer of fiction, translator of ancient texts and a respected poet. His collection The Earthly Paradise (1868 – 1870) was hugely popular and he was offered the Poet Laureateship on the death of Tennyson, but declined. He founded the Kelmscott Press in the 1890s and was a key figure in the emergence of socialism in Britain, as well as being highly influential in the Arts and Crafts Movement.
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Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison was born in Yorkshire and before becoming a full-time writer was literary editor at The Observer and then at the Independent on Sunday. He has written novels and poetry, as well as two memoirs: And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Granta Books, 2007) and Things My Mother Never Told Me (Vintage, 2003). He is Professor of Creative Life Writing at Goldsmiths College and lives in London.
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Sinéad Morrissey
Sinéad Morrissey was born in 1972 and brought up in Belfast. She has travelled widely and in 2003 was appointed the inaugural Belfast Poet Laureate. She is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Parallax, winner of the T S Eliot Prize in 2013. A new collection, On Balance, is forthcoming in 2017.
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