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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Hedd Wyn
Hedd Wyn (1887 –1917) was a Welsh language poet who was posthumously awarded the bard’s chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod after being killed in World War I. Born Ellis Humphrey Evans, he was inspired to take the bardic name Hedd Wyn, meaning ‘Blessed Peace’, from the way sunlight penetrated the mist in the Meirionydd valleys.
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Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch has published three collections of poems, Rockclimbing in Silk (Seren, 2001), Not in These Shoes (Picador, 2008) and Banjo (Picador, 2012). Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, Poetry London, Poetry Wales and Poetry Review. In 2005 she was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship and in 2007 a grant from the Society of Authors.
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Jerrold Yam
Jerrold Yam is a poet and Singaporean lawyer based in London. He is the author of three poetry collections: Intruder (Ethos Books, 2014), Scattered Vertebrae (Math Paper Press, 2013) and Chasing Curtained Suns (Math Paper Press, 2012).
He was named by Singapore’s National Arts Council as one of the ‘New Voices of Singapore 2014’, and his poems have been published widely in magazines including Poetry London, Magma, Oxford Poetry, Washington Square Review and Time Out.
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Paul Yandle
Paul Yandle is a poet and trainee English teacher from South Wales. He studied Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Glamorgan and graduated in 2005. His poems have been published in several literary anthologies and magazines, including Poetry Wales.
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Tiphanie Yanique
Tiphanie Yanique was born in the Caribbean and now lives in New York. She writes fiction and poetry and her collection Wife won the Forward/Felix Dennis Prize in the UK for Best First Collection in 2016. She had started writing it in 2000. She has commented that poets use language and form ‘to find a way to say something anew.’
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Warda Yassin
Warda Yassin is a British-born Somali poet, based in Sheffield. A pamphlet Tea with Cardamon was published by Smith Doorstop in 2019 and won the 2018 New Poets Prize judged by Kayo Chingonyi. In 2020 she became Sheffield Poet Laureate.
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