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 over 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.-
Ali Rowland
Ali Rowland is a poet and author from Northumberland. Her poetry is sometimes about her own mental health issues and sometimes about the world in general. She is assisted in her endeavours by a wonderful husband and a beautiful border terrier. Ali won the Hexham Poetry Competition in 2023 and her stories and poems have been published in numerous journals including Dreich Magazine, The Frogmore Papers, The Northumbrian, Green Ink Press, The Open Journal of Arts and Letters, The Amphibian Press, Amsterdam Quarterly and Obsessed with Pipework.
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Sumana Roy
Sumana Roy is an Indian writer and poet who is an associate professor at Ashoka University. Her essays and poems have appeared in Granta, The Caravan, Los Angeles Review of Books and American Book Review. A collection of poems Out of Syllabus was published by Speaking Tiger Books in 2019.
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Gibbons Ruark
Gibbons Ruark is a contemporary American poet based in North Carolina. He has published numerous collections, most recently The Road to Ballyvaughan (Jacar Press, 2015). He has won a Pushcart Prize and held three poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The New Republic and Poetry magazine.
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Andrew Rudd
Andrew Rudd is a British poet who has been a teacher, the Poet Laureate of Cheshire and poet in residence at Manchester Cathedral. His poetry collections include One Cloud Away from the Sky (2007) and Nowhere Else But Here (2012). His work has been widely published in journals and magazines.
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Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle is an American poet and essayist. She has published many poetry collections the most recent of which is Dunce (Wave Books, 2019) which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She teaches at Vermont College and is the poet laureate of the state of Vermont.
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Reshma Ruia
Reshma Ruia is a writer who has a PhD and Masters in Creative Writing and Critical Thought from Manchester University. She is the co-founder of The Whole Kahani, a collective of British South Asian writers, and a trustee of Manchester City of Literature. Her poems have been published in several anthologies and a collection A Dinner Party in the Home Counties was published by Skylark Publications in 2019.
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