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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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894) was a significant voice in Victorian poetry, the youngest member of a family of poets, Pre-Raphaelite artists and critics. She was deeply religious and wrote devout, romantic and children’s poetry, as well as religious prose works. One of her best known works is Goblin Market and other poems, published in 1862.
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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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Sumana Roy
Sumana Roy is an Indian writer and poet who is an associate professor at Ashoka University. Her essays and poems have appeared in Granta, The Caravan, Los Angeles Review of Books and American Book Review. A collection of poems Out of Syllabus was published by Speaking Tiger Books in 2019.
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Gibbons Ruark
Gibbons Ruark is a contemporary American poet based in North Carolina. He has published numerous collections, most recently The Road to Ballyvaughan (Jacar Press, 2015). He has won a Pushcart Prize and held three poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The New Republic and Poetry magazine.
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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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