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 850 historical and contemporary poets. In our pages you’ll find old favourites alongside twenty-first century voices – everyone from WH Auden to Belinda Zhawi. 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.-
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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Bob Beagrie
Bob Beagrie is a poet, editor and mentor based in Middlesbrough who has published 14 collections of poetry and several pamphlets. A collection of poems inspired by the Spanish Civil War Romanceros was published by Drunk Muse Press in 2024. Bob has also worked as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing.
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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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Jo Bell
Jo Bell is a poet, tutor and mentor. She was born in Sheffield and until 2015 was the first Canal Laureate, appointed by The Poetry Society and the Canal & River Trust. She has published several collections of poetry, including most recently Kith (Nine Arches Press, 2015).
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