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.-
Jack Underwood
Jack Underwood is an active member of the British poetry scene. He teaches English and creative writing at Goldsmiths College in London and is also involved in editing and reviewing. His first collection Happiness was published by Faber in 2015 and is characterised by poems that are both tender and frank in their probing of emotion and philosophical ideas.
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Eloise Unerman
Eloise Unerman writes both poetry and video game narratives. She was awarded a Cuckoo Young Writers Award in the Northern Writers Awards 2017and in the same year was commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award. She has been published in Introduction X (The Poetry Business) and Pennine Platform, as well as several other magazines and anthologies. She is currently Poet Laureate of Barnsley.
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Susan Utting
Susan Utting is a British poet who for many years taught poetry and creative writing at Reading and Oxford Universities. Her first full collection Striptease was published in 2001 by Smith/Doorstop Books and her most recent is The Colour of Rain (Two Rivers Press, 2024). She is the founder of Reading’s acclaimed Poets’ Café.
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Suzannah V Evans
Suzannah V Evans is the winner of a 2020 Northern Writers’ Award from New Writing North and of the 2020 Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment. Her debut poetry pamphlet Marine Objects / Some Language was published in 2020, and her second pamphlet Brightwork is forthcoming in 2021, both with Guillemot Press. She was poet-in-residence at Underfall Yard, a working boatyard in Bristol, in 2019.
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Jean Valentine
Jean Valentine was an American poet who spent most of her life in New York City. Her collection Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965–2003 won a National Book Award and Break the Glass (2010) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She was the State Poet of New York from 2008 – 2010.
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Edmund Vance Cooke
Edmund Vance Cooke (1866 – 1932) was a Canadian poet. His first job on leaving school was in a sewing machine factory. He is perhaps best known for his poem ‘How Did You Die?’ with its popular message of fortitude. His books include A Patch of Pansies (1894) and From the Book of Extenuations (1926).
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