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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Rob Walton
Rob Walton was born in Scunthorpe, and lives in Whitley Bay. His poems for both adults and children have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He also writes flash fictions and short stories, and collaborates with visual artists. His debut poetry collection is to be published by Culture Matters.
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Robert Walton
Robert Walton is a poet based in the west of England. He has a PhD from Cardiff University where he taught creative writing for many years. His first collection Workings (Gomer, 1978) won the Welsh Arts Council New Poet Award but he then stopped writing for some 20 years. His second full collection, Sax Burglar Blues, was published by Seren in 2017.
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Sarah Wardle
Sarah Wardle was born in London and is a lecturer at Middlesex University. She was Poet in Residence at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and is the author of several poetry collections, including Fields Away (2003), Score (2005) and Beyond (2014) – all published by Bloodaxe Books. She has also contributed to various anthologies.
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Andrew Waterhouse
Andrew Waterhouse (1958 – 2001) was a poet, environmentalist and musician who lived and worked in the north east. His poetry collection In (The Rialto 2000) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A second volume, 2nd, featuring poems he was gathering into a collection at the time of his death, was published in 2002.
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Rory Waterman
Rory Waterman was born in Belfast and is a British critic, poet and academic. He has published three full poetry collections with Carcanet of which the most recent is Sweet Nothings (2020). His first collection was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize. He is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Nottingham Trent University where he also leads the Creative Writing MA.
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Giles Watson
Giles Watson was born in the UK but emigrated to Australia at the age of one and lived there for 25 years. He is an author and painter, writing essays on nature, folklore and medieval visual culture. His most recent publication is Saints, Birds and Devils (Lulu, 2023) which pairs poems about the relationships between medieval people and birds with illustrations inspired by the bestiaries. He returned to England in early adulthood, living in Durham, the Isles of Scilly and rural Oxfordshire, before returning to live in Western Australia in 2013. Much of his poetry is redolent of the landscapes of these places.
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