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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Martina Evans
Martina Evans is an Irish poet, novelist and teacher. She is the author of twelve books of prose and poetry. Her collection American Mules (Carcanet, 2021) won the Pigott Poetry Prize 2022 and was a TLS and Sunday Independent Book of the Year. Her latest collection is The Coming Thing (Carcanet, 2023).
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Suzannah Evans
Suzannah Evans is a poet, editor and tutor based in Sheffield. Her debut collection Near Future was published by Nine Arches Press in 2018. In 2021 she received a Northern Writers’ Award for poetry for her second collection Space Baby, (Nine Arches Press, 2022). Her most recent publication is a pamphlet, Green, an ecological take on the folkloric Green Man figure, published by Bad Betty Press.
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Marie-Louise Eyres
Marie-Louise Eyres was born in England and raised partly in the USA. After attending York University, she spent some years as an actress touring European castles and UK prisons, then several more years as a literary agent in London, before embarking on her own poetry writing career. She currently has six chapbooks and lives in California with her family.
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UA Fanthorpe
UA Fanthorpe (1929 – 2009) began to publish poetry in her late 40s, after leaving teaching and taking up a position as a receptionist in a neurological hospital, which inspired her first collection. She was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry in 2003, and her Collected Poems was published in 2004.
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Helen Farish
Helen Farish is a British poet based in Cumbria. Her debut collection Intimates (Cape, 2005) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Subsequent collections are published by Bloodaxe, including most recently The Penny Dropping which tells the story of a failed love affair.
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Paul Farley
Paul Farley is a poet, academic and broadcaster. He was born in Liverpool and studied at Chelsea School of Art. His first poetry collection The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You was published in 1998 and in 1999 he was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His poems often contain elements of wry humour and are interested in form and metre.
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