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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Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu (1879 – 1949) was an Indian political activist and poet. She was educated in Madras, London and Cambridge and played an important part in the Indian independence movement. She was also the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress. She wrote her poems in English and her first collection was The Golden Threshold published in London in 1905.
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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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Helena Nelson
Helena Nelson is a poet and publisher based in Scotland. Founder editor of HappenStancePress, she writes both serious poems (Starlight on Water, Rialto 2003 and Plot and Counter-Plot, Shoestring 2010) and light verse (Down With Poetry, HappenStance 2016 and Blended, Red Squirrel 2019). She is also author of How (Not) to Get Your Poetry Published, HappenStance 2016.
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Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson is an American poet, translator and biographer and a former Connecticut Poet Laureate. Her work is infused with themes of family and she also incorporates African-American oral traditions into her poems. Her collections include Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems 1996–2011 (LSU Press, 2012) and My Seneca Village (2015).
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