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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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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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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