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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Sophie Bass
Sophie Bass is a London-based illustrator of mixed British and Trinidadian heritage. She creates vivid images which are inspired by her love of music, reflecting themes of social justice, mythology and symbolism.
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Paul Batchelor
Paul Batchelor was born in Northumberland and is a poet and critic. His first collection of poems, The Sinking Road, was published by Bloodaxe in 2008. He has won the Times Stephen Spender Prize for Translation and the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Prize, and he writes criticism for the Guardian and the TLS.
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Rachael Bates
Rachael Bates (1897 – 1966) was a poet who moved to the Lake District during the Second World War. She was born in Liverpool and worked for a while as secretary to the editor of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo. Her poetry collection Danae and Other Poems was published by Erskine Macdonald in 1922.
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) was a French poet, art critic and translator (for example of Edgar Allan Poe). His work had a major influence on modernism and on later poets such as Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarmé. He coined the term ‘modernity’ to express the changing nature of beauty amid the early industrialisation of Paris. His most famous work Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) was published in 1857.
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Lotte Beatrix Crawford
Lotte Beatrix Crawford is an illustrator and printmaker. She is also an art historian and academic with an interest in early 20th century women textile artists. Books about Tirzah Garwood and Enid Marx are forthcoming.
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David Belbin
David Belbin was born in Sheffield but has lived in Nottingham since completing his degree at Nottingham University. He is a popular short story writer and the author of numerous novels for young adults. His short stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies and many are published in Provenance: New and Collected Stories from Shoestring Press. David teaches creative writing at Nottingham Trent University.
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