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 700 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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Meryl Pugh
Meryl Pugh is a poet who was born in Wales and is now based in London. Her first full collection Natural Phenomena was published by Penned in the Margins in 2018. She has also published several pamphlets, most recently Wife of Osiris (Verve Poetry Press, 2021). She is a Poetry School tutor on the MA in Writing Poetry course.
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Sheenagh Pugh
Sheenagh Pugh is a poet, novelist and translator who was born in Birmingham and now lives in Shetland. She has published two novels and several poetry collections, the most recent of which is Afternoons Go Nowhere (Seren, 2019). Her book Stonelight (Seren, 1999) contains her own poems alongside translations of Medieval and Renaissance poetry and won the Wales Book of the Year Award.
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Victoria Punch
Victoria Punch is a voice coach and musician based in Devon. She is curious about voice and identity, the limits of language and how we perceive things and her poetry comes from these explorations. She has been published in Poetry and Reliquiae and is about to be published in One Hand Clapping.
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Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin (1799 – 1837) is Russia’s most famous poet and is widely considered to be the founder of modern Russian literature. His first major verse narrative, the mock epic Ruslan i Liudmila (1820), is a faux-fairytale based on Medieval Russian history. Perhaps his most famous long poem is Eugene Onegin (1833) which took seven years to write. Strangely, the fate of its hero foreshadows that of Pushkin himself who also died in a duel.
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Justin Quinn
Justin Quinn is an Irish poet and critic who now lives in Prague and teaches at Charles University and the University of West Bohemia. His first collection was The ‘O’o’a’a’ Bird (Carcanet, 1995) and his most recent is Early House (Gallery Press, 2015). He co-founded the influential literary journal Metre which sought to promote internationalism in poetry and has also translated the work of the Czech poet Ivan Blatný.
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Shazea Quraishi
Shazea Quraishi was born in Pakistan, grew up in Canada and lived in Spain before settling in London where she now works as a writer, translator and creative writing facilitator. Her poetry has appeared in The Guardian, The Financial Times, Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. Her latest collection is The Art of Scratching (Bloodaxe, 2015).
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