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.-
Tom Sastry
Tom Sastry is a British poet. His most recent collection is You have No Normal Country To Return To (Nine Arches Press, 2022) which explores national identity and ‘the end of history’. His first collection A Man’s House Catches Fire (Nine Arches Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize.
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Carole Satyamurti
Carole Satyamurti (1939 – 2019) was a British poet and translator. She came to writing poetry in later life, having been a sociology lecturer for many years. Her first collection was Broken Moon (Oxford University Press, 1987) which was followed by five further collections. Her retelling of the Indian epic poem the Mahabharata was published in 2015.
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Lesley Saunders
Lesley Saunders is a poet, poetry mentor and translator. She studied Classics at university and went on to publish numerous collections including most recently This Thing of Blood & Love (Two Rivers Press, 2022). She has also translated the work of the Portuguese poet Maria Teresa Horta.
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William Scammell
William Scammell (1939 – 2000) was a British poet. His first collection Yes and No (Peterloo Poets, 1979) immediately established his reputation. He went on to publish numerous collections and also edited anthologies and other books, including Winter Pollen (1983), a collection of the critical writings of Ted Hughes, a poet he greatly admired.
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Vernon Scannell
Vernon Scannell (1922 – 2007) was a poet, novelist and critic. In 1960, he won the Heinemann Award for Literature, and in 1975 his collection The Loving Game was a Poetry Book Society choice. He has been described as “one of the finest poets of his generation” and continued to publish poems until the last year of his life.
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Clinton Scollard
Clinton Scollard (1860 – 1932) was an American poet and novelist whose work often explores themes of nature, love and beauty. His first collection was Pictures in Song (1884). He was also co-editor of The Bird Lover’s Anthology published in 1930. After his death, Jessie B Rittenhouse (his collaborator on that title) edited The Singing Heart; Selected Lyrics and Other Poems of Clinton Scollard (1934).
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