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.-
Joan Downar
Joan Downar lived in Nottinghamshire. Her poetry career began in the 1970s, her work appearing in major poetry journals. Peterloo Press published two of her collections: The Empire of Light (1984) and The Old Noise of Truth (1989). Various Returns is a posthumous collection of poems which were unpublished at the time of her death in 1996. It was compiled and edited by Michael Payne.
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Camilla Doyle
Camilla Doyle (1888? – 1944). Little is known about this poet other than that she lived in England in the first half of the 20th century and is thought to have died in Norwich in 1944. She is best-known for her 1923 poem ‘The Town Rabbit in the Country’.
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Boris Dralyuk
Boris Dralyuk is an award-winning literary translator and the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years. He is a co-editor of the Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, and has translated Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, both of which are published by Pushkin Press.
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John Drinkwater
John Drinkwater (1882 – 1937) was a British poet and playwright. He was one of the Dymock poets, a movement that flourished before the First World War, and his work appeared frequently in the Georgian Poetry anthologies. A first volume of his Collected Poems was published in 1923 and in later years he was manager of Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
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William Drummond of Hawthornden
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585 – 1649) was a Scottish poet. He studied Law at Edinburgh University but soon turned to writing poetry instead. His first publication was an elegy on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales which was published in 1613. He lived at Hawthornden Castle, which is now well-established as a literary retreat.
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Ann Drysdale
Ann Drysdale (d. 2024) lived in South Wales. A prize-winning poet, she published several volumes of memoirs and a number of poetry collections, five of them published by Peterloo Poets. Her most recent collections are Between Dryden and Duffy (2005) and Quaintness and Other Offences (2009), the latter from Cinammon Press.
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