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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Genny Rahtz
Genny Rahtz is a poet and creative writer who spent much of her time in Yorkshire, particularly Hull and York, before moving to Oxford. She worked for the Open University for many years. Her poetry collections include Sky Burial (Flux Gallery Press, 2010).
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Craig Raine
Craig Raine was born in 1944 in County Durham and read English at the University of Oxford. One of the so-called ‘Martian poets’, he has published a number of acclaimed collections, including A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979), Rich (1984) and Clay, Whereabouts Unknown (1996). He gained a Cholmondeley Award in 1983 and the Sunday Times Writer of the Year Award in 1998. He is founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté and Professor Emeritus of New College, Oxford.
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Kathleen Raine
Kathleen Raine CBE (1908 – 2003) was a British poet, critic and scholar, and a founder member of the Temenos Academy. Her poetry won numerous awards and honours, including the Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize from the American Poetry Society. She published more than eleven volumes of poetry, as well as works of literary criticism and an autobiography. In 1992 she was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
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Vinode Ramgopal
Vinode Ramgopal has written hundreds of poems and is in the process of publishing two collections: Beyond a Millenium and Til the Simple Moods are Torn. He was educated at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Merton College, Oxford. He lives in the New York City area of the US and works in the financial sector.
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Julia Rawlinson
Julia Rawlinson grew up in London and graduated from Southampton University with a degree in geography. She is the author of Fletcher and the Falling Leaves and Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms, illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.
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Angela Readman
Angela Readman is a British poet and short story writer. Her most recent collection Bunny Girls was published by Nine Arches Press in 2022. Her poems have won various awards including the Charles Causley Prize and her short stories have won the Costa Short Story Award.
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