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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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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Julia Nemirovskaya
Julia Nemirovskaya is a Moscow-born writer and poet who now lives in the US and teaches at the University of Oregon. Her two collections are Moia knizhechka (1998) (My Little Book) and Vtoraia knizhechka (2014) (Second Little Book). Her work is characterised by a lyrical delicacy and a deceptive child-like imagination.
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Kenn Nesbitt
Kenn Nesbitt is an American poet who grew up in California and now lives in Washington. In 2013 he was named Children’s Poet Laureate. His first collection was My Foot Fell Asleep (Purple Room Publishing, 1998) and since then he has gone on to publish nearly 20 books of poems for children. He also posts new work on his popular Poems4Kids website.
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (b.1942) was born in Cork and is a leading contemporary poet, translator and editor. She has published several poetry collections, including Acts and Monuments (1966) which won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, The Magdalene Sermon (1989) and most recently The Boys of Bluehill (2015), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
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Grace Nichols
Grace Nichols was born in Guyana and moved to the UK in the 1970s. She is well-known as a poet writing for both adults and children. Her children’s collections include Everybody Got A Gift (2005) while her adult collections include The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984) and The Insomnia Poems (2017).
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