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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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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Graham Mort
Graham Mort studied English at Liverpool Uni and, after extensive travels in Africa where he taught for the British Council, now works at Lancaster University. He has published ten poetry collections and two books of short fiction. He has also written for BBC Radio. His most recent poetry collection is Black Shiver Moss (Seren, 2017).
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Helen Mort
Helen Mort grew up in Derbyshire. Five-times winner of the Foyle Young Poets award, she received an Eric Gregory Award in 2007. Her first full collection Division Street was published by Chatto & Windus in 2013 and won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. Her second No Map Could Show Them was published in 2016. Both collections are infused with a strong sense of place and reflect her interest in climbing and mountain landscapes.
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JLM Morton
JLM Morton is a poet and writer based in Gloucestershire. Winner of the Laurie Lee, Geoffrey Dearmer and International Dylan Thomas Day awards, her work is published internationally including in The Poetry Review, The Rialto and most recently in Living With Water (MUP, 2023). Her first full collection of poems, Red Handed, is forthcoming with Broken Sleep Books (2024).
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