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 850 historical and contemporary poets. In our pages you’ll find old favourites alongside twenty-first century voices – everyone from WH Auden to Belinda Zhawi. 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.-
George Crabbe
George Crabbe (1754 – 1832) was born in Suffolk, the son of a tax collector. He completed medical training but then later became a clergyman and wrote well-known long poems such as The Village and The Borough, realistically observed verse about society, mostly in heroic couplets.
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Diana Croft
Diana Croft is a printmaker, painter and stained glass artist based in Surrey. She trained in illustration at Brighton University before working in London, teaching printmaking and editioning complicated multi-plate etchings and collagraphs for the printmaker Brenda Hartill. She draws inspiration from the Surrey Hills and South Downs, and has produced a series of linocuts and collagraph prints based on these distinctive landscapes.
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Barbara Crooker
Barbara Crooker is an American poet. Her most recent collection is Slow Wreckage (Grayson Books, 2024) which reflects on themes of ageing. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize on numerous occasions and her work has appeared in magazines such as Poetry International and America.
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Claire Crowther
Claire Crowther lives in Somerset and has worked as a journalist and in communications. She has published a number of pamphlets and full-length poetry collections, including Stretch of Closures (Shearsman, 2007) which was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Best First Collection Prize. She was Poet in Residence at the Royal Mint Museum from 2014-15 and her resulting pamphlet Bare George was published in 2016.
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Martyn Crucefix
Martyn Crucefix is a British poet and translator. He is the author of seven original collections of poetry, most recently Cargo of Limbs (Hercules Editions, 2019) and Between a Drowning Man. He has received an Eric Gregory award, a Hawthornden Fellowship, and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translations of the poems of Peter Huchel. His Duino Elegies was published in 2006 and shortlisted for the Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation. He is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at The British Library.
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ee cummings
E E (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 – 1962) was born in Massachusetts. His award-winning poetry, breaking with tradition and experimenting with form, punctuation, speech and syntax, is published in several collections. He received several honours during his lifetime.
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