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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MK Joseph
MK Joseph (1914 – 1981) was one of the most important poets and novelists in New Zealand during his lifetime. His poems draw on both high and popular culture, alongside meditations on the seen and unseen world and pieces informed by his experiences during the Second World War. His novels range from historical romance to science fiction.
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LB Jørgensen
LB Jørgensen is a poet who has lived in England several times, most recently for five years, but she has now returned to her native Denmark. She only writes poetry in English and has had poems published in several magazines, The North, Magma, Under the Radar, Pennine Platform and Strix among them. Her debut pamphlet A Woman Travelling about a year of travels primarily in Asia is published by Paekakariki Press in 2024.
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Mohja Kahf
Mohja Kahf is a poet, novelist and scholar. She was born in Damascus, Syria and moved to the US with her family in 1971. Her poetry collections include Emails from Scheherazad (2003) and Hagar Poems (University of Arkansas Press 2016). Her work reflects both Syrian and American influences and she writes about the differences between the cultures of her home and adopted countries.
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Chitra Kalyani
Chitra Kalyani is a poet and writer based in New Delhi, India. One of her poems is forthcoming in the anthology Daydreamers by Urban Ivy Press. She is also working towards publishing her first collection of poetry.
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Kapka Kassabova
Kapka Kassabova is a poet and writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Bulgaria and lived in New Zealand before settling in Edinburgh, UK. Her first poetry collection was All Roads Lead to the Sea (Auckland University Press, 1997). Two further collections are jointly published by Auckland University Press and Bloodaxe: Someone else’s life (2003) and Geography for the Lost (2007).
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Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh (1904 – 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. His first collection, Ploughman and other poems was published in 1936. Other works include the novel Tarry Flynn (1948) and his long poem, ‘The Great Hunger’. He spent his early life farming in rural Ireland, which inspired much of his work, and later moved to Dublin.
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