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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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967) was an American author and critic known for her wit, who wrote for magazines such as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. She was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table but, following the breakup of the circle, Parker travelled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting, where she was placed on the Hollywood Blacklist due to her left-leaning politics.
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Caleb Parkin
Caleb Parkin, Bristol City Poet 2020 – 22, has poems in numerous journals and anthologies, with extensive tutoring and facilitation experience. He has published three pamphlets and a collection, This Fruiting Body (Nine Arches, longlisted Laurel Prize). He holds an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes and is currently practice-as-research PhD candidate at University of Exeter, as part of RENEW Biodiversity.
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Ian Parks
Ian Parks is a British poet and academic. He has published several full collections, including most recently Citizens (Smokestack, 2017) and his work been widely published in magazines and newspapers. He is the editor of Versions of the North: Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry (Five Leaves, 2013) and has taught creative writing at a number of universities. He now runs the Read to Write project in Doncaster.
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Abigail Parry
Abigail Parry is a UK poet whose first collection Jinx (Bloodaxe, 2018) was shortlisted for several awards. Her work has been broadcast on BBC radio and published in journals and anthologies. She spent several years working as a toymaker and completed a PhD on wordplay. A second collection I Think We’re Alone Now is published by Bloodaxe in 2023.
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Linda Pastan
Linda Pastan (1932 – 2023) was born to a Jewish family and raised in New York City. Her poetry is published in several collections, including most recently, Queen of a Rainy Country (2006) and Traveling Light (2011). Her work has gained several awards including a Pushcart Prize and a Dylan Thomas Award. From 1991-1995, she was Poet Laureate of Maryland.
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Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960) was far more than just the writer of Doctor Zhivago (1957). He rose to prominence in Russia with two poetry collections including Themes and Variations (1922) which established him as a leading figure in the literary landscape. He also translated Verlaine, Swinburne, Shelley and Shakespeare as well as the work of Georgian poets. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958.
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