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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Miriam Wei Wei Lo
Miriam Wei Wei Lo is a mixed-place-and-race writer who was born in Canada, grew up in Singapore, and has lived in Australia since she was nineteen. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland, but took a long detour from academia to raise her children and do the work of a country pastor’s wife in Margaret River, Western Australia. She currently lives in Walyalup (Fremantle) and teaches creative writing at Sheridan Institute. Her first collection, Against Certain Capture, won the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. She is working towards her next collection.
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Sarah Westcott
Sarah Westcott’s first collection, Slant Light, was published in 2016 by Pavilion Poetry, an imprint of Liverpool University Press. Sarah’s poems have appeared in magazines including The Poetry Review and Magma, and in anthologies including The Forward Book of Poetry 2017 – as well as on beermats, billboards and the side of buses.
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Dominic Weston
Dominic Weston is a British poet who also produces wildlife and adventure programmes for TV. His work has been published in journals and anthologies including Agenda, Black Bough Poetry, Magma Poetry, The North, and Under The Radar.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 – 1919) was an American poet and novelist who started writing as a child and had her first poem published when she was only 13. Her poem ‘Solitude’ contains the much-quoted line “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.” Her first collection was Poems of Passion (WB Conkey, 1883). Throughout her life she was interested in spiritualism and believed in reincarnation.
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Henry Kirke White
Henry Kirke White (1785 – 1806) was born in Nottingham, the son of a butcher, and at the age of seventeen, published a volume of poetry, Clifton Grove, which attracted much attention and the interest of Southey and Byron. He studied at Cambridge and died there at the age of twenty-one. His completed Poetical Works were published after his death.
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Gary Whitehead
Gary Whitehead is an American poet, teacher and crossword constructor. His poetry collections include A Glossary of Chickens (2013); Measuring Cubits while the Thunder Claps (2008); and The Velocity of Dust (2004). His awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He is also a painter, and teacher of English and Creative Writing in New Jersey.
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