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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Kenn Nesbitt
Kenn Nesbitt is an American poet who grew up in California and now lives in Washington. In 2013 he was named Children’s Poet Laureate. His first collection was My Foot Fell Asleep (Purple Room Publishing, 1998) and since then he has gone on to publish nearly 20 books of poems for children. He also posts new work on his popular Poems4Kids website.
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork and is a leading contemporary poet, translator and editor. She has published several poetry collections, including Acts and Monuments (1966) which won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, The Magdalene Sermon (1989) and most recently The Boys of Bluehill (2015), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
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Grace Nichols
Grace Nichols was born in Guyana and moved to the UK in the 1970s. She is well-known as a poet writing for both adults and children. Her children’s collections include Everybody Got A Gift (2005) while her adult collections include The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984) and The Insomnia Poems (2017).
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Norman Nicholson
Norman Nicholson (1914 – 1987) lived all his life in the iron-mining town of Millom, Cumbria, and his relationship with the social and religious community and the landscape there informed his work. He wrote in several genres, but is best known for his poetry and was awarded the Queens Medal for Poetry in 1977 and the OBE in 1981. His Collected Poems was published by Faber & Faber in 1994.
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Lauren K Nixon
Lauren K Nixon is an ex-archaeologist and author who has written short stories such as The Fox and the Fool and the Chambers magic series. She also curates ‘The Superstars’, a community of writers, poets and artists. Her poetry collection Wild Daughter (The Mysterium, 2021) explores themes of folklore, femininity and the natural world.
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Alistair Noon
Alistair Noon is a British poet who is based in Berlin. His translations of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam have appeared in the Guardian and New Statesman, His most recent collection is the long poem Paradise Takeaway (Two Rivers Press, 2023).
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