E. A. Markham
Posted at 11:10AM Saturday 12 Apr 2008
The poet, fiction writer, theatre director, editor and creative-writing teacher E.A. Markham was born in the Caribbean but migrated to the UK as a teenager. Britain was to be his home for most of his life, but he was a perennial traveller and also lived in France, Germany and Papua New Guinea for extended periods.
Obituary in The Independent
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