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 800 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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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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Cerys Matthews
Cerys Matthews was born in Cardiff. She is a musician, author and broadcaster, presenting radio shows on BBC 6 music, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4. Cerys was a founder member of multi-million selling band Catatonia and in 2014 founded the Good Life Experience festival with Charlie and Caroline Gladstone. In recent years she has curated and composed for the National Theatre and was artistic director of the World Music Expo in 2013. She has been awarded an MBE for her services to music.
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Glyn Maxwell
Glyn Maxwell is a British poet, playwright, novelist, librettist and critic. His most recent poetry collection is Pluto (Picador, 2013). Previous collections have been shortlisted for major prizes including the Geoffrey Faber and the TS Eliot. His most recent book is Drinks with Dead Poets (Oberon Books, 2016) in which great poets from Dickinson to Keats wander around an imaginary university, meeting with the students.
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John McAuliffe
John McAuliffe is an Irish poet who grew up in County Kerry and now lives in Manchester where he co-directs the Centre for New Writing and edits The Manchester Review. He has published four collections of poetry with The Gallery Press, most recently The Way In (2015).
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