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 850 historical and contemporary poets. In our pages you’ll find old favourites alongside twenty-first century voices – everyone from WH Auden to Belinda Zhawi. 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.-
Caitríona O’Reilly
Caitríona O’Reilly was born in Dublin and now lives in Lincoln. She has published several poetry collections, from The Nowhere Birds (Bloodaxe, 2001) which was shortlisted for a Forward Prize to her most recent Geis (Bloodaxe, 2016). She has also written for BBC Radio 4 and published fiction, as well as editing several issues of Poetry Ireland Review and being a contributing editor to the Irish poetry journal Metre.
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Leanne O’Sullivan
Leanne O’Sullivan was born in West Cork in 1983 and has published three poetry collections with Bloodaxe. The first, Waiting for my Clothes, appeared when she was only 21. Her work has been included in various anthologies and she received the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award in 2009.
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Pey Oh
Pey Oh is a Bath-based poet from Malaysia. She has an MPhil in Creative Writing from the University of South Wales. Her first pamphlet, Pictograph, was published by Flarestack Poetry in 2018. Her recent work can be found in Long Poem Magazine, The Scores – A Journal of Poetry and Prose and Butcher’s Dog.
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Ife Olatona
Ife Olatona is a multi-disciplinary writer who was born in Lagos and has lived in Nigeria and the US. His work has been widely published in magazines such as The Chicago Review of Books and The Poetry Review. He was commended in the Foyle Young Poets Awards and in 2021 was featured by The Times in an article about five top poets under 25.
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Charlotte Oliver
Charlotte Oliver is a poet who lives on the Yorkshire Coast. Her work explores the extraordinary in the everyday and has been published widely. She is one of Ilkley Literature Festival’s New Northern Poets 2023 and her debut pamphlet is How To Be A Dressing Gown (Dreich).
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John Ormond
John Ormond (1923 – 1990) was a Welsh poet and film-maker who was born in Swansea and studied painting at Swansea School of Art. He produced documentaries for BBC Wales and produced five collections of poetry, culminating in a Collected Poems (Seren, 2015) published after his death.
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