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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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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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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Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky is an American poet and critic. His most recent books include At the Founding Hospital (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) and Selected Poems (2012). He was US Poet Laureate from 1997 – 2000. As Laureate he set up the ‘Favorite Poem Project’ which saw people from all walks of life selecting and recording a reading of their favourite poem. An anthology Americans’ Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology proved highly successful.
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