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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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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Mary Mulholland
Mary Mulholland grew up across several countries and now lives in London. She came to poetry following careers as a psychotherapist, in property and as a journalist, and did an MA in Poetry (Newcastle University/ The Poetry School), as well as the advanced poetry course at Faber. She has solo and collaborative pamphlets with Live Canon and Nine Pens, and is most recently published in Rialto, 14 Magazine and Aesthetica. When not writing poetry she may be found shepherding at a west country farm.
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Jill Munro
Jill Munro lives and writes in East Sussex. Her first collection Man from La Paz was published by Green Bottle Press in 2015 and her Fair Acre Press Prize-winning pamphlet The Quilted Multiverse appeared in 2016. She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2018 (but says she struggled with the rule of daytime silence in the Castle). She describes writing poetry as an antidote to her day job in a financial services company. Jill is a graduate of the Open University.
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Les Murray
Les Murray (1938 – 2019) was an Australian poet who published over 30 volumes of poetry in his long career. His work has been translated into 10 languages, and he was awarded the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Sometimes referred to as ‘the bush-bard’ his work often explores the Australian landscape and its creatures.
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