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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Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (1930 – 1998) was a major British poet of the twentieth century. Born in Yorkshire, his poems draw on the natural world in which he grew up hunting and fishing around farms and moors. He was married to the American poet Sylvia Plath until her death in 1963. He published numerous collections of poetry to unanimous critical acclaim and was an inspiration and mentor to many younger poets. In 1984 he was appointed Poet Laureate, a position he held until his death.
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Ian Humphreys
Ian Humphreys is a British poet. His debut collection is Zebra (Nine Arches, 2019) and his latest collection Tormentil (Nine Arches Press, 2023) won a Royal Society of Literature ‘Literature Matters’ Award. He was Writer in Residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum (2023 – 24).
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Joanna Ingham
Joanna Ingham writes both poetry and fiction. She has published two pamphlets: Ovarium (The Emma Press, 2022) which was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards and Naming Bones (ignitionpress, 2019). She is the recipient of a Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England.
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Lucy Ingrams
Lucy Ingrams’ pamphlet, Light-fall (2019) was published by Flarestack Poets and a collection, Signs (2023) by Live Canon. Awards for her work include the Manchester Poetry Prize (2015). She is based in Oxford.
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Kate Innes
Kate Innes trained as an archaeologist and museum educator before turning to writing. She won the Imagined Worlds Poetry Prize 2016 and the WPF Festival in a Book Prize in 2023. Her first poetry collection, Flocks of Words, was shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award in 2018, as was her first children’s book, Greencoats, in 2022. She is also the author of The Arrowsmith Trilogy of medieval novels.
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Georgy Ivanov
Georgy Ivanov (1894 – 1958) was a member of the Russian Guild of Poets and began his career writing poems that were heavily influenced by Baudelaire and the French Symbolists. He suffered from alcoholism and wrote some of his finest work (‘poems of brilliant despair’ as one critic said) while living in penury and misery in France at the end of his life.
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