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.-
Kathleen Raine
Kathleen Raine CBE (1908 – 2003) was a British poet, critic and scholar, and a founder member of the Temenos Academy. Her poetry won numerous awards and honours, including the Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize from the American Poetry Society. She published more than eleven volumes of poetry, as well as works of literary criticism and an autobiography. In 1992 she was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
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Vinode Ramgopal
Vinode Ramgopal has written hundreds of poems and is in the process of publishing two collections: Beyond a Millenium and Til the Simple Moods are Torn. He was educated at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Merton College, Oxford. He lives in the New York City area of the US and works in the financial sector.
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William Brighty Rands
William Brighty Rands (1823 – 1882) was a London-based poet of the Victorian era. He used various pen names and wrote a large number of nursery rhymes. He worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and was also a preacher at a chapel in Brixton. His works for children include Lilliput Lectures (1871) and Lilliput Legends (1872).
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Natasha Rao
Natasha Rao is an American poet whose work has been published in numerous journals, including Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine and The Yale Review. Her debut collection Latitude (Copper Canyon, 2021) was chosen by Ada Limón as the winner of the 2021 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She is currently co-editor of American Chordata.
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Tom Rawling
Tom Rawling (1916–1996) was a teacher and poet who lived in Cumbria and grew up in the Ennerdale Valley. It wasn’t until he retired that he began to write poetry; a pamphlet A Sort of Killing appeared in 1978, followed by Ghosts at My Back (Oxford University Press, 1982). A volume of poems and autobiographical pieces How Hall: Poems and Memories, a passion for Ennerdale was published by Lamplugh and District Heritage Society in 2009.
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Angela Readman
Angela Readman is a British poet and short story writer. Her most recent collection Bunny Girls was published by Nine Arches Press in 2022. Her poems have won various awards including the Charles Causley Prize and her short stories have won the Costa Short Story Award.
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