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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John Burnside
John Burnside (1955 – 2024) was a poet and a prolific prose writer. His first collection of poems, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and in 2012 his collection Black Cat Bone won both the TS Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. He taught at the University of St Andrews.
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Wayne Burrows
Wayne Burrows lives in Nottingham and is the author of several books of poetry, including The Apple Sequence (2011), and his most recent collection, Black Glass: New & Selected Poems (2015). He also writes fiction, his latest collection being Exotica Suite and Other Fictions (2015) and has made several short films, including Fantasmagorie (2015).
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Jeanette Burton
Jeanette Burton is a poet and English teacher from Derbyshire. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University. She was awarded first place in the McLellan Poetry Prize 2021 and the Ware Poetry Prize 2022, and was highly commended in both the Wales Poetry Award 2021and the Teignmouth Poetry Festival Open Competition 2022. Her pamphlet, What is this a family outing? was shortlisted for the inaugural Poetry Wales Pamphlet Competition 2021. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry Wales and Mslexia, and she is also a tutor for The Writing School.
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Derrick Buttress
Derrick Buttress was born in 1932. His poems have been widely published in magazines and in four collections by Shoestring Press; the latest, Welcome to the Bike Factory, in 2015. A memoir, Broxtowe Boy, was published in 2004, and its sequel, Music While You Work, in 2007. Sing to Me (2012) is his first collection of short stories. He has also written plays for BBC TV and Radio.
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Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron (1788 – 1824) inherited his title in 1798, along with his ancestral home of Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire. A flamboyant and controversial figure, celebrated for his excesses, he became well-known with the publication of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage in 1812. He travelled widely, and lived for some time in Italy where he wrote some of his most famous works, including Don Juan (1819 – 1824). He died in Greece in 1824, supporting the Greek War of Independence.
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Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell was a New Zealand poet, playwright and novelist. His collection Mine Eyes Dazzle (Pegasus, 1950) was the first by a Polynesian poet to be published in English. His output spans six decades, with his final collection (written with his wife Meg Campbell) published in 2008 just a year before his death.
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