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.-
George Walter Thornbury
George Walter Thornbury (1828 – 1876) was a British author and the first biographer of JMW Turner. He worked as a journalist but also wrote poetry, novels and art criticism. His first success came with the publication in 1851 of Lays and Legends; or, Ballads of the New World. He also wrote about London which was the city where he was born and spent all his life.
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Peter Walton
Peter Walton is an English poet whose work engages closely with the natural world, especially with plants and birds. His full collection The Cheerfulness of Sparrows and Other Poems was published by Shoestring Press in 1998.
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Rob Walton
Scunthorpe-born Rob Walton now has a home and an allotment in Whitley Bay. He writes poetry and short fiction for children and adults, and has been published by Arachne Press, Candlestick Press, The Emma Press and others. He makes regular visits to schools, libraries and festivals.
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Robert Walton
Robert Walton is a poet based in the west of England. He has a PhD from Cardiff University where he taught creative writing for many years. His first collection Workings (Gomer, 1978) won the Welsh Arts Council New Poet Award but he then stopped writing for some 20 years. His second full collection, Sax Burglar Blues, was published by Seren in 2017.
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Sarah Wardle
Sarah Wardle was born in London and is a lecturer at Middlesex University. She was Poet in Residence at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and is the author of several poetry collections, including Fields Away (2003), Score (2005) and Beyond (2014) – all published by Bloodaxe Books. She has also contributed to various anthologies.
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Andrew Waterhouse
Andrew Waterhouse (1958 – 2001) was a poet, environmentalist and musician who lived and worked in the north east. His poetry collection In (The Rialto 2000) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A second volume, 2nd, featuring poems he was gathering into a collection at the time of his death, was published in 2002.
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