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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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882) was a painter and poet, brother of Christina Rossetti. In 1848 he was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who rejected Victorian materialism and wanted to bring back into art what they saw as a pre-Renaissance purity. He worked on English translations of Italian poetry and published a volume of his collected poems in 1870. His long and widely-acclaimed sonnet sequence ‘House of Life’ appeared in Ballads and Sonnets (1881).
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Ali Rowland
Ali Rowland is a poet and author from Northumberland. Her poetry is sometimes about her own mental health issues and sometimes about the world in general. She is assisted in her endeavours by a wonderful husband and a beautiful border terrier. Ali won the Hexham Poetry Competition in 2023 and her stories and poems have been published in numerous journals including Dreich Magazine, The Frogmore Papers, The Northumbrian, Green Ink Press, The Open Journal of Arts and Letters, The Amphibian Press, Amsterdam Quarterly and Obsessed with Pipework.
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Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle is an American poet and essayist. She has published many poetry collections the most recent of which is Dunce (Wave Books, 2019) which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She teaches at Vermont College and is the poet laureate of the state of Vermont.
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Carol Rumens
Carol Rumens was born in South London and is a prolific writer of fiction, drama and translations. She has also published fourteen collections of poetry of which the most recent is De Chirico’s Threads (Seren 2010) and writes the highly popular ‘Poem of the Week’ feature for The Guardian.
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Declan Ryan
Declan Ryan is an Irish poet and critic in living in London. His first collection Crisis Actor is forthcoming in the UK from Faber & Faber (July 2023) and is to be published in the US in 2024. His essays have been widely published in journals including The Guardian, The New York Review of Books and the TLS.
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Kay Ryan
Kay Ryan was born in California in 1945 and is the author of several books of poetry, including Say Uncle (2000), The Niagara River (2005) and The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (2011), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her other awards include a Maurice English Poetry Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2006 and appointed United States Poet Laureate from 2008-2010.
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