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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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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Katrina Naomi
Katrina Naomi is British poet living in Cornwall. Her most recent collection, Wild Persistence (Seren, 2020) received an Authors’ Foundation Award from the Society of Authors. Her poetry has appeared on Poems on the Underground and BBC Radio, as well as in The TLS and The Poetry Review. Her poem ‘in the kelp forest’ was the winner of the 2021 Keats-Shelley Prize.
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James Nash
James Nash was born in west London and now lives in Leeds. His collection Coma Songs was published in 2003 and in 2012 Valley Press published Some Things Matter: 63 Sonnets. A second edition of this title contains new sonnets first broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He has worked as Writer in residence at HMP Wakefield and regularly takes part in literary events and readings.
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Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash (1902 – 1971) was an American poet, well-known and admired for his humorous light verse for both adults and children. His work was written from keen observation of American social life and had a popular anti-establishment quality. Also a lyricist and screenwriter, he was born in New York and lived most of his life in Baltimore.
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