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.-
Katie Hale
Katie Hale is a novelist and poet, based in Cumbria. She won a Northern Debut Award for her poetry collection, White Ghosts (Nine Arches, 2023) and has written two novels: The Edge of Solitude and My Name is Monster. Her short fiction has been longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award.
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Alyson Hallett
Alyson Hallett was born in Somerset and studied Comparative Literature at the University of East Anglia. She has published numerous poetry collections, including several collaborations. The most recent of these is End of the Glacier (2023) which responds to the glacier paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
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Robert Hamberger
Robert Hamberger has published six poetry pamphlets and four full-length collections. Blue Wallpaper (Waterloo Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 Polari Prize. His prose memoir with poems A Length of Road: finding myself in the footsteps of John Clare was published in 2021. He has been shortlisted and highly commended in the Forward prizes, and his poetry has appeared in a number of international anthologies, as well as in The Guardian as a Poem of the Week. He has also received a Hawthornden Fellowship.
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Susan Hamlyn
Susan Hamlyn has published two collections of poetry, The Only Thing Untouched (Flarestack, 2000) and Quiet Myth (Mattock Press, 2000). Her poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. She lives in London.
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Mary Stewart Hammond
Mary Stewart Hammond is an American poet. Her first collection Out of Canaan was published in 1993 and her most recent Entering History (which chronicles a long marriage) in 2016. She teaches poetry Masterclasses in New York where she lives.
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Jenny Hancock
Jenny Hancock is a painter and printmaker living in rural Cheshire. Her work reflects her love of plants, wildlife the garden and the changing seasons. Both her paintings and linocut prints have a bold use of colour and feature the flora and fauna from her own garden, the surrounding countryside and her visits to many inspirational gardens.
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