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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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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Conor O’Callaghan
Conor O’Callaghan grew up in Dundalk, just south of the Irish border. He has written a novel and a memoir about football, as well as publishing five poetry collections, including Seatown and Earlier Poems (2000), Fiction (2005), which was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, The Sun King (2013) and Live Streaming (2017). He currently teaches at Sheffield Hallam University.
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Lani O’Hanlon
Lani O’Hanlon is a dancer and movement therapist as well as being a published novelist and poet. She is Writer in Residence at Molly Keane Writers’ Retreats in Co. Waterford, Ireland. She was shortlisted for the 2017 Hennessy New Irish Writing Award.
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