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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Tamar Yoseloff
Tamar Yoseloff was born in the US and moved to the UK in 1987. She has published six full collections, most recently The Black Place (Seren, 2019). She is also the author of Formerly (the inaugural chapbook from her publishing venture Hercules Editions). She is currently a lecturer on the Poetry School / Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry and cites the visual arts as one of her key areas of interest.
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Dean Young
Dean Young (1955 – 2022) was an American poet who was Texas poet laureate and William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas. He published numerous collections of poetry as well as critical work. Strike Anywhere (University Press of Colorado, 1995) won the Colorado Prize for Poetry and Elegy on Toy Piano (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent collection is Solar Perplexus (Copper Canyon Press, 2019).
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Sarah Young
Sarah Young is a printmaker, designer, painter, maker and illustrator whose first creative venture was a travelling puppet theatre with her husband. She now works from her studio on the south coast of England and her work is widely exhibited in galleries across the UK and in the US. She has recently illustrated a collection of Greek Myths for children, published by Walker Books.
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Holly Yuille
Holly Yuille is a poet and fiction writer, who often uses magic realism in her work. As well as holding a Creative Writing Degree from Swansea University, Holly regularly performs at spoken word events in Worcester where she now lives. She was the winner of the 2019 Worcestershire Litfest Flash Fiction Slam.
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Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah (1958 – 2023) was a poet, novelist and playwright who grew up in Jamaica and Birmingham. He is the author of several poetry collections, including Talking Turkeys (1994); Too Black, Too Strong (2001); and We Are Britain! (2002). He also wrote plays and teenage novels, and produced many music recordings.
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Belinda Zhawi
Belinda Zhawi is a Zimbabwean-born writer and educator based in London. She is a former London Laureate and ICA Associate Poet whose work explores the effects of colonialism on southern Africa. Her pamphlet Small Inheritances was published by Ignition Press in 2019. She has run the London poetry platform Born::Free for five years.
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