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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Peter Reddick
Peter Reddick (1924 – 2010) was an artist and engraver who focused increasingly on engraving after polio made it difficult for him to paint. He studied at The Slade and at the London School of Printing. One of his most important projects was creating engravings to illustrate all 18 of Thomas Hardy’s novels.
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Yvonne Reddick
Yvonne Reddick is a poet and researcher. Her pamphlet Translating Mountains (Seren, 2017) was selected by the TLS as a favourite pamphlet of the year. She has been awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship and her book Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet is published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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Peter Redgrove
Peter Redgrove (1932 – 2003) was a major British poet who also wrote prose, novels and plays. He was a prolific writer, publishing over 30 collections of poetry. A Collected Poems was published by Cape in 2012 and contains over 500 pages of work. He was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1996.
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Deryn Rees-Jones
Deryn Rees-Jones was born in Liverpool and has strong connections with North Wales. She published her first poetry collection The Memory Tray in 1995. She has gone on to publish several more collections, including most recently Burying the Wren (Seren, 2012). Her work And You, Helen (Seren, 2014) is a collaboration with the artist Charlotte Hodes about the wife/widow of Edward Thomas.
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James Reeves
James Reeves (1909 – 1978) wrote around 30 books of poetry, short stories and anthologies for adults and children. His children’s book, The Wandering Moon (1950), was illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, with whom he formed a lifelong collaboration and friendship. His Collected Poems was published in 1974 and he was also known as a literary critic and broadcaster. Faber have recently published an anthology of his poems in their ‘Faber Finds’ series.
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Christopher Reid
Christopher Reid was born in 1949 and is the author of a number of award-winning poetry collections, most recently Nonsense and also including Arcadia (1979), Two Dogs on a Pub Roof (1996) and in 2009, A Scattering, which won that year’s Costa Best Book of the Year Award. He also writes poetry for children. From 1991 – 1999 he was poetry editor at Faber and Faber. 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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