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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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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Flora McLachlan
Flora McLachlan is an artist and printmaker living near the Preseli mountains in West Wales. She makes etchings, lithographs and block prints as well as paintings. Her work is inspired by the natural world and by the fairy tales she read in her childhood. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and prints her own work on direct lithograph presses and Rochat etching presses.
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Paul McLoughlin
Paul McLoughlin (1947 – 2021) was born in London of Irish parents and has published four collections of poetry, the most recent being The Hungarian Who Beat Brazil (Shoestring, 2017). He also wrote articles and reviews for various publications, including PN Review and Critical Survey and his poetry is widely anthologised.
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Hugh McMillan
Hugh McMillan is from Penpont in south-west Scotland. He has published five collections of poetry and won a number of prizes, including the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award in 2017 for Sheep Penned. He has been a winner in the Smith/Doorstop Prize and the Cardiff International Poetry Competition, and has also been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award and the Basil Bunting Award.
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