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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Rachel Jeffcoat
Rachel Jeffcoat is a Yorkshire-born, Hampshire-based poet whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of publications, including Under the Radar, Tears in the Fence, New Welsh Review, Off the Chest’s Spaces of Significance anthology, and a Ten Poets anthology from Sidekick Books.
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Elizabeth Jennings
Elizabeth Jennings (1926 – 2001) lived in Oxford and wrote over 20 books of poetry to critical acclaim. Her Catholicism was an important theme in her poetry. In later life she was awarded a CBE and her New Collected Poetry was published in 2002.
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Paula Jennings
Paula Jennings (1952 – 2004) was a poet whose work was widely published in literary magazines, national newspapers and anthologies. She gave numerous readings, including several for StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival. Two pamphlets were published by HappenStance Press, most recently Under a Spell Place (2015) and a full collection This is You, Dear Stranger was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2024.
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Lucy Jeynes
Lucy Jeynes is a writer, poet and performer based in the Midlands. Her work has appeared in anthologies including Bugged and her poem about Tracy Island was published in the anthology Double Bill (Red Squirrel, 2014) containing poems inspired by TV and film.
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Joan Johnston
Joan Johnston was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne where she still lives. Her collections include Orange for the Sun (dog eater 2005) and The Daredevil: Scenes from a Bigamist Marriage and Other Poems (Red Squirrel Press 2011). She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2000. She has worked as a writer in prisons, hospitals and schools.
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Brian Jones
Brian Jones (1938 – 2009) was a critically acclaimed, award-winning poet, who wrote the majority of his work between 1966 and 1990. He was the author of eight collections, including Freeborn John (1990) and The Island Normal (1978). He also wrote children’s poems, his collection The Spitfire on the Northern Line, being published in 1975. His New and Selected Poems was published in 2013.
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