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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Stuart Pickford
Stuart Pickford is the recipient of an Eric Gregory award. His first collection The Basics (Redbeck Press, 2001) was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize. His second collection Swimming with Jellyfish was published by Smith/Doorstop in 2016. He lives in Harrogate and taught in a local comprehensive school.
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Katherine Pierpoint
Katherine Pierpoint is a British Poet who studied languages at Exeter University. Her best-know poetry collection is Truffle Beds (Faber, 1995) which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and won a Somerset Maugham Award. Her poem ‘Buffalo Calf’ won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2005.
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Ruth Pitter
Emma Thomas ‘Ruth’ Pitter (1897 – 1992), CBE, FRSL was a British poet who published eighteen poetry collections in her lifetime and was the first woman to receive the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, in 1955. She was appointed a CBE in 1979 to honour her many contributions to English literature.
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963) was a major American poet who studied in the USA and then in the UK, where she settled. Her volumes of poetry, including her posthumously-published collection, Ariel, established her as one of the most important poets of her generation, alongside her husband, Ted Hughes. Although controversy surrounded and continues to surround her early death by suicide, the importance of her work (she is credited with creating what has become known as a ‘confessional’ genre of poetry) and its contribution to the course of twentieth-century poetry, are beyond controversy.
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Stanley Plumly
Stanley Plumly was a prolific American poet who loved the English Romantics and wrote a book about John Keats. His 2009 collection Old Heart (2009) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist in the National Book Award. He was Maryland Poet Laureate for many years.
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Rachel Plummer
Rachel Plummer is a UK poet who was born in London and lives in Edinburgh. She was a recipient of the Scottish Book Trust’s New Writer Award for poetry in 2016 and has had poems published in magazines including Mslexia, The Dark Horse, The Stinging Fly and Agenda. Her pamphlet of sci-fi poems The Parlour Guide to Exo-Politics (House Press, 2017) imagines aliens landing in Scotland’s ancient woodland and explores themes such as gender and homelessness.
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