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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Jack Powers
Jack Powers founded the Stone Soup poetry reading series in Boston in 1971, where many famous U.S. poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Robert Bly, performed their work. He was known for nurturing new talent and published many new poets under the name Stone Soup.
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Wendy Pratt
Wendy Pratt is a writer and editor who lives on the North Yorkshire coast. Her memoir The Ghost Lake was longlisted for the Nan Shepherd prize in 2021 and is inspired by an extinct lake in North Yorkshire. She has also published six poetry collections including Blackbird Singing at Dusk (Nine Arches, 2024). A previous collection, When I Think of My Body as a Horse, won the Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet competition in 2020.
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Marsha Prescod
Marsha Prescod came to the UK from Trinidad as a child. Her first poetry collection was Land of Rope and Tory (Akira Press, 1985). She is also interested in science fiction and published The Afro-Saxon Chronicles in 2020. She lectures in Law at London South Bank University.
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Estelle Price
Estelle Price lives in St Albans. She is the winner of the 2021 Welsh Poetry Competition and the 2018 Book of Kells Writing Competition. She was published in 2022 by Nine Arches Press in Primers 6, a series for emerging poets. She writes from a feminist perspective on themes including her East End past, the body and the Bloomsbury Group. Her poetry has been twice long-listed in the National and placed/listed in the Bridport, Ver, Canterbury, London Magazine and other competitions.
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DA Prince
DA Prince is a poet and writer based in Leicestershire. Her first published poems appeared in weekly competitions in the New Statesman and Spectator. HappenStance Press subsequently published three full-length collections: Nearly the Happy Hour (2008); Common Ground (2014) which won the East Midlands Book Award 2015, and The Bigger Picture (2022).
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Pauline Prior-Pitt
Pauline Prior-Pitt is a British poet based on North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. Her collection North Uist Sea Poems won the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for pamphlet poetry in 2006. Her most recent collection Beyond the Bite is published by Spike Press. She has also appeared on BBC Radio including on Woman’s Hour and frequently reads her work at festivals across the UK.
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