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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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882) was one of the most popular US poets of his day. He was the first Americans to completely translate Dante’s Divine Comedy and was one of the so-called ‘fireside poets’ of New England. One of his most famous works is ‘The Song of Hiawatha’ – an epic poem featuring native American characters.
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David Wagoner
David Wagoner (1926 – 2021) was an American poet and novelist, born in Ohio to an opera singer mother. In his long life he published 23 poetry collections and 10 novels. Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems appeared in 1999 and the consensus among critics was that the new poems were among his very best. One of his recurring themes is nature and the destruction of the natural world.
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Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott (1930 – 2017) published 24 collections of poetry, as well as dramas and works of criticism. He grew up in St Lucia and divided his time between Trinidad and Boston University where he taught Creative Writing. His collection, White Egrets (2010) won the T S Eliot Prize and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.
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Steve Waling
Steve Waling is a British poet who was born in Accrington and lives in Manchester. He has published several collections, including Calling Myself On The Phone (Smith/Doorstop, 2003) and Travelator (Salt 2007). He has worked as a teacher of creative writing and as a mentor to African writers via the British Council’s Crossing Borders project.
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Claire Walker
Claire Walker is a British poet, writer and editor based in Worcestershire. Her work has been published in journals and magazines including Poetry Wales, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal and Spelt. Her most recent publication is Collision (Against the Grain Press, 2019). A pamphlet Somewhere Between Rose and Black (V. Press, 2017) was shortlisted for Best Poetry Pamphlet in the 2018 Saboteur Awards.
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Jane Walker
Jane Walker studied illustration and printmaking in Dundee and now works mostly as a printmaker using the reduction linocut technique. Her work reflects her fascination with still life and she uses everyday objects (jugs, flowers, cups) to capture a sense of the past. She is a member of Oxford Printmakers.
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