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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Norman Nicholson
Norman Nicholson (1914 – 1987) lived all his life in the iron-mining town of Millom, Cumbria, and his relationship with the social and religious community and the landscape there informed his work. He wrote in several genres, but is best known for his poetry and was awarded the Queens Medal for Poetry in 1977 and the OBE in 1981. His Collected Poems was published by Faber & Faber in 1994.
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Stephanie Norgate
Stephanie Norgate is a poet and playwright who lives in Sussex and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. Her collections Hidden River (2008) and The Blue Den (2012) are both published by Bloodaxe. She sees a close connection between radio and poetry and her poems are often closely engaged with the natural world. As a child she often played in the Selborne garden of Gilbert White.
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Alden Nowlan
Alden Nowlan (1933 – 1983), poet, dramatist and novelist, left school early and later supported his writing by working as a nightshift journalist and newspaper editor. His early works were inspired by rural Nova Scotia and he was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Prize in 1978. He is the author of several collections of poetry, the last being I Might Not Tell Everybody This (1982).
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Stanley O. Ayodeji
Stanley O. Ayodeji is a writer, performer and poet. His novel Damage Limitation was published by CreateSpace in 2014. His first collection of poetry After the Riot, Quiet was published by CreateSpace in the same year. He is a collaborator in the We4Poets network.
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Mary O’Donnell
Mary O’Donnell is a novelist, short story writer and poet whose most recent poetry collection is Those April Fevers (Arc Publications, 2015). In 2001 she was elected to Aosdana, the organisation that honours artists engaged in literature, music and the visual arts who have made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland. She lives and works in County Kildare in Ireland.
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Sean O’Brien
Sean O’Brien is a leading contemporary poet. His first collection was The Indoor Park (1983) which won a Somerset Maugham Award. Since then he has published numerous full collections, most recently Europa (Picador, 2018), as well as translations of Dante and Aristophanes and two Selected Poems. He has won both the TS Eliot and Forward Prizes several times and is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University.
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