Martin Starkie

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Martin Starkie is an actor, writer and director for theatre, radio and television. He was born in London and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, under critic Nevill Coghill. In 1946 he founded the Oxford University Poetry Society, and with Roy McNab edited the Oxford Poetry magazine in 1947. He made his name in the BBC’s The Third Programme and on television in the 1950s. He went on to write with Nevill Coghill and composers Richard Hill and John Hawkins, and to produce and direct Canterbury Tales, based on Nevill Coghill’s translation, first in Oxford, then in the West End, on Broadway and in Australia.^[1] The Oxford University Poetry Society administers the annual Martin Starkie Prize in his honour.