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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Lorraine Mariner
Lorraine Mariner lives in London and works at the National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre. She has published two collections with Picador, Furniture (2009) and There Will Be No More Nonsense (2014) and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize twice, for Best Single Poem and Best First Collection, and for the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize. Her most recent publication is the poetry chapbook, Anchorage with Grey Suit Editions (2020).
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Jehane Markham
Jehane Markham is a musician, lyricist and poet. She has published several collections including Thirty poems (Rough Winds, 2004). The Jehane Markham Trio has also recorded CDs such as Vladivostok to Moscow inspired by a seven-day journey on the Trans Siberian railway which draws on contemporary gypsy jazz, Russian folk and classical music.
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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593) was a major Elizabethan poet, translator and playwright and an exact contemporary of Shakespeare. He was a pioneer of blank verse which became the standard form for verse drama in the Elizabethan era. One of his most successful works was the play Tamburlaine which was widely imitated and in which the lead was played by the actor Edward Alleyn for whom Marlowe wrote several parts.
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Elaine Marshall
Elaine Marshall was born in Greenwich where she still lives. She studied painting at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art and at the Slade School of Fine Art. At her studio in Greenwich she uses a range of printmaking techniques, including etchings and collagraphs on her Rochat etching press. Elaine is a founder member and currently gallery manager of Greenwich Printmakers.
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Roy Marshall
Roy Marshall is a UK poet whose first full collection The Sun Bathers (Shoestring Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Award. After Montale, which contains versions of poems by the Italian poet, was published in 2019. Roy’s work has appeared in magazines including The Rialto, Poetry Wales, The North and The Compass. He has worked as a gardener and a nurse, and as a part-time university lecturer.
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Harold Massingham
Harold Massingham (1932 – 2011) was the son of a collier and attended the same school in Yorkshire as Ted Hughes. His poetry collections include Black Bull Guarding Apples (Longmans, 1965) and Frost Gods (Macmillan, 1971). He was also a crossword compiler for The Listener and The Independent. He spent several years in Spain before returning to settle in the UK at the end of his life.
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