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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Stephen Payne
Stephen Payne was born in Merthyr Tydfil and lives in Penarth, South Glamorgan. His first full collection, Pattern Beyond Chance, was published in 2015 by HappenStance Press and shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. His second collection, The Windmill Proof, was published by the same press in September 2021 and followed, in February 2022 by a pamphlet The Wax Argument & Other Thought Experiments.
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MR Peacocke
MR Peacocke grew up in South Devon and started writing poems as a child. Peterloo Poets published her first four poetry collections: Marginal Land (1988), Selves (1995), Speaking of the Dead (2003) and In Praise of Aunts (2007). Caliban Dancing and Finding the Planes: New and Selected Poems were both published by Shoestring, the latter in 2015.
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Cheryl Pearson
Cheryl Pearson is a British poet who lives and works in Manchester. Her poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies and her first full collection Oysterlight was published by Pindrop Press in 2017. She has won the High Sheriff’s Cheshire Prize for Literature in 2016 and in 2017 was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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Pascale Petit
Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales and lives in Cornwall. She is of French/Welsh/Pakistani heritage. She worked as a sculptor before turning to poetry. Her seventh poetry collection Mama Amazonica, published by Bloodaxe in 2017, was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Her work has been widely translated and is characterised by the opulence and vividness of its image-making.
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Ian Phillips
Ian Phillips is a linocut and woodcut artist who studied illustration at Leicester Polytechnic. He now lives in Wales and specialises in prints taken from drawings made in the course of long distance walks. He is also a member of the print collective ‘Pine Feroda’ based in North Devon. His work has appeared in exhibitions across the UK, as well as in Hong Kong and the US.
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Peter Phillips
Peter Phillips is a London-based writer and poet whose first full collection Looking for You was published in 2001. His most recent title is Four Poems From Saying It With Flowers (Hearing Eye, 2016) which includes linocuts by the printmaker Emily Johns. His poems are characterised by a lyrical warmth, and often by gentle humour.
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