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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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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Nicholas Murray
Nicholas Murray is a novelist, poet, biographer and publisher based in Wales and London. His most recent of many publications is the pamphlet City Lights (Melos Press, 2020) which contains ‘The Song of Rhodri’ – a sequence in the voice of an imaginary Welsh bard. His biography of Kafka has been translated into nine languages. He is also widely published in magazines and literary journals.
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Nora Nadjarian
Nora Nadjarian is a poet and fiction writer from Cyprus. Her work was included, among others, in Being Human (Bloodaxe Books, 2011) and Europa28: Visions for the future (Comma Press, 2020), in which she was selected to represent Cyprus. In 2022 she won the Anthropocene Valentine’s Day poetry competition and was a finalist in the Mslexia poetry competition. She was one of the poets chosen to take part in a Poetry Society/EUNIC project where she produced new work in collaboration with Jacqueline Saphra. Her poetry collection Iktsuarpok is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in 2024.
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André Naffis-Sahely
André Naffis-Sahely is the author of two collections of poetry, The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life and High Desert. He has translated over twenty works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. He is a lecturer at the University of California, Davis in the US and the editor of Poetry London in the UK.
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