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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Roger McGough
Roger McGough was born in Liverpool in 1937. He sold over a million records as one of The Scaffold in the late 1960s, and has since led a wide-ranging and successful poetry career, publishing over forty poetry collections for children and adults. He was made President of the Poetry Society in December 2011 and presents Radio 4’s Poetry, Please.
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Victoria McGrane
Victoria McGrane is an Australian artist and designer based in Burketown, North Queensland. Her intricate and delicate illustrations are inspired by her love of travel and capture the flora and fauna of her native country. Her background is in the visual arts but she now works equally in textile design and has collaborated with a number of major brands in Australia and Europe.
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Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast in 1950 and studied at Queen’s University, Belfast, with Seamus Heaney. She was a winner of an Eric Gregory award, and her first collection, The Flower Master (1982) won the Poetry Society’s Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Other prizes include the Forward Prize for Best Poem for ‘She is in the Past, She Has This Grace’ and the Bass Ireland Award for Literature.
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Iain McIntosh
Iain McIntosh is a Scottish artist and illustrator who was born in Motherwell and now lives in Edinburgh, having studied at Edinburgh College of Art. He uses both traditional and digital techniques to create logos, illustrations and book jacket designs, including for best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith. He is married with two children.
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Claude McKay
Claude McKay (1890 – 1948) was a Jamaican writer and poet who moved to the US in 1912. He was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a literary movement that flourished in the 1920s. Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads were published in London in 1912. His later collection, Harlem Shadows (1922) was an important book in the Harlem Renaissance.
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Jamie McKendrick
Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955 and studied at the University of Nottingham, after which he taught at the University of Salerno in Italy. The author of five collections of poetry, including The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Poetry Prize Best Poetry Collection of the Year, his work has been shortlisted for various prizes, including the TS Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. His translations of the poetry of Valerio Magrelli were published in 2009.
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