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.-
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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Selima Hill
Selima Hill comes from a family of painters and her poems are certainly highly visual – often surreal. Her first collection, Saying Hello at the Station, was published in 1984 and she has since published 15 further collections (including two Selected Poems). The most recent is People Who Like Meatballs (2012), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
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Rob Hindle
Rob Hindle is a poet and writer of fiction based in Sheffield. He has published both pamphlets and full collections, most recently The Grail Roads (Longbarrow, 2018). His poems have also been widely published in magazines including The North and Staple.
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Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch is an American poet who has a PhD in Folklore. His tenth poetry collection Stranger by Night (Knopf, 2020) explores old age and contains elegies to many poet friends. He is also the author of five prose books, several about poetry and reading poetry. Poet’s Choice (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006) contains the popular columns he wrote for the Washington Post.
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