Martyn Crucefix – born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. After a year studying Medicine, he switched to English and Philosophy, graduating from Lancaster University. A DPhil focused on the work and thought of Percy Bysshe Shelley was completed at Worcester College, Oxford. Martyn taught in London for many years. He has recently worked as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at The British Library.

Publications: Between a Drowning Man has just been published by Salt in  2023. Other recent publications of original poetry include Cargo of Limbs (Hercules Editions, 2019) and The Lovely Disciplines (Seren, 2017).artyn’s translations of the poems of Peter Huchel (Shearsman, 2019), with the title These Numbered Days, won the 2020 Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize.  Martyn has also translated Rilke’s Duino Elegies – shortlisted, 2007 Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation – and Sonnets to Orpheus, both published by Enitharmon Books. Martyn’s new, major – 200 page – selection and translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry from 1899 through to 1926 will be published early in 2024 by Pushkin Press. His translation of essays by Lutz Seiler, In Case of Loss, is due from And Other Stories in Autumn 2023. He has also published Daodejing – a new version in English (Enitharmon, 2016).