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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HM Truscott
HM Truscott is a poet, editor and translator. Her work appears in magazines in the UK, US and Ireland, including Oxford Poetry, Magma and many others. She is a member of a book arts collective, The Bookness Collective, and is particularly interested in how a poem’s physical context affects the way that it’s read. Harriet currently lives in the rainy corner of Spain.
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Kostya Tsolakis
Kostya Tsolakis was born and grew up in Athens and now lives in London where he works as a poet and journalist. He is founding editor of harana poetry, the online magazine for poets writing in English as a second or parallel language. His debut pamphlet Ephebos was published by Ignition Press. His poetry has also been widely published in magazines.
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Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892 – 1941) was a Russian poet who published her first collection Evening Album when she was only 18. During her lifetime she wrote poems, verse plays, and prose pieces and she is considered one of the most significant poets of her generation. She lived through a turbulent time in Russian history and spent several years in exile. Having lost several members of her family, she took her own life at the age of 49.
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Julian Turner
Julian Turner (b. 1955) was educated at New College, Oxford and Goldsmith’s College, London. He has worked in the field of mental health, most recently as chief officer at Mind in Leeds. His collection Crossing the Outskirts (Anvil, 2002) was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize. Other collections include Orphan Sites (2006) and Planet-Struck (2011).
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain is the pen name of the author and humourist Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) who is best known for his ground-breaking novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was hugely successful in his lifetime as a writer and public speaker, and was called ‘the father of American literature’ by the novelist William Faulkner.
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Florence Tweddell
Florence Tweddell (1824 – 1899 ) also known as Florence Cleveland was a Yorkshire dialect poet. In 1869 she published a pamphlet of five short rhymes to illustrate the North York dialect, which was followed by a similar pamphlet of Rhymes and Sketches to illustrate the Cleveland dialect. In 2009 the folk band Megson set the words of her dialect poem ‘Take Thyself a Wife’ in a song that gained widespread popularity.
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