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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Andrew McDonnell
Andrew McDonnell is a writer of poetry and short fiction who teaches at the University Centre Peterborough. His published work includes The Somnambulist Cookbook (Salt, 2019) and 55 Devotionals (Against Erasure) (Broken Sleep Books, 2025).
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Beth McDonough
Beth McDonough is a Dundee-based poet who co-hosts Platform Sessions in Fife. Her pamphlet Lamping for pickled fish is published by 4Word. Makar of the Federation of Writers (Scotland) in 2022, currently she’s working on a hybrid project on outdoor swimming, and a collaborative collection with Nikki Robson. Both books are scheduled for publication this year.
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Gill McEvoy
Gill McEvoy lives in Devon. She won the 2015 Michael Marks Award for The First Telling (Happenstance Press). She has also published two collections with Cinnamon Press: The Plucking Shed (2010) and Rise (2013). She is one of six featured poets in Caboodle published by Prole Books and is also a Hawthornden Fellow.
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Roger McGough
Roger McGough was born in Liverpool in 1937. He sold over a million records as one of The Scaffold in the late 1960s, and has since led a wide-ranging and successful poetry career, publishing over forty poetry collections for children and adults. He was made President of the Poetry Society in December 2011 and presents Radio 4’s Poetry, Please.
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Victoria McGrane
Victoria McGrane is an Australian artist and designer based in Burketown, North Queensland. Her intricate and delicate illustrations are inspired by her love of travel and capture the flora and fauna of her native country. Her background is in the visual arts but she now works equally in textile design and has collaborated with a number of major brands in Australia and Europe.
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Iain McIntosh
Iain McIntosh is a Scottish artist and illustrator who was born in Motherwell and now lives in Edinburgh, having studied at Edinburgh College of Art. He uses both traditional and digital techniques to create logos, illustrations and book jacket designs, including for best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith. He is married with two children.
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