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.-
Ramona Herdman
Ramona Herdman’s recent publications are Glut, A warm and snouting thing and Bottle. The latter was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice, A warm and snouting thing was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards and Glut was one of The Telegraph’s ‘Top 20 poetry books of 2022’.
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Oliver Herford
Oliver Herford (1863 – 1935) was an American writer who during his lifetime was sometimes compared to Oscar Wilde. He was born in Sheffield but moved to Chicago as a child and spent many years in New York. He was an illustrator and poet, often writing whimsical verse full of wordplay and unexpected rhymes. He also wrote for children and often illustrated his books himself e.g. A Kitten’s Garden of Verses published in 1911.
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Tania Hershman
Tania Hershman is a queer writer of odd things. Her second poetry collection, Still Life With Octopus, is published by Nine Arches Press (July 2022) and her debut novel, Go On, by Broken Sleep Books (November 2022). Tania is also the author of two pamphlets, three short story collections, and a hybrid book inspired by particle physics.
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Phoebe Hesketh
Phoebe Hesketh (1909 – 2005) was an English poet born in Lancashire. Her early work focuses on the natural world but in later life she turned to themes of change, loss and aging. She published 16 collections in the course of her life, the last of which was A Box of Silver Birch (Enitharmon Press,1997). She also worked as a journalist on the Bolton Evening News.
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Dorothy Hewett
Dorothy Hewett (1923 – 2002) was a feminist poet, novelist and playwright, often lauded as one of Australia’s favourite writers. She starting writing poems as a child although her first major collection Windmill Country wasn’t published until 1968. In the last decade of her life she lived in the Blue Mountains and her final collection Halfway up the Mountain draws on this unique landscape and her memories of her childhood.
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Seán Hewitt
Seán Hewitt read English at Cambridge University. His pamphlet Lantern (Offord Road Books, 2019) was a Poetry Book Society Choice. A full collection is forthcoming from Cape. He also reviews fiction for The Irish Times and is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin.
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