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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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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Cheryl Moskowitz
Cheryl Moskowitz began as a performance poet with the radical 1980s poetry collective Angels of Fire. She trained in dramatherapy and psychodynamic counselling and taught on the Creative Writing and Personal Development MA at Sussex University from 1996-2010. Publications include the novel Wyoming Trail (Granta, 1998), The Girl is Smiling (Circle Time Press, 2012) plus two poetry collections for children. Her pamphlet Maternal Impression (Against the Grain Press, 2021) was shortlisted for the Saboteur Awards.
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Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate from 1999-2009 and knighted in 2009 for services to literature. He is a public champion of poetry, currently through the Poetry by Heart project, and is co-founder of the Poetry Archive. He has written novels, a book of memoir and several acclaimed biographies, including those of Larkin and Keats. His latest poetry collection is Peace Talks (2015), which includes poems written from soldiers’ wartime experiences.
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Lisel Mueller
Lisel Mueller (1924 – 2020) was born in Hamburg. When she was 15 her family fled Nazi Germany and settled in America where she lived for the rest of her life. Her first collection was The Private Life (1975) and Alive Together: New & Selected Poems (1996) won a Pulitzer Prize. She was also a translator of German poetry.
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