Click here for Mark’s Inky Jamboree interview video with Andrew Williams Hello Mark, it’s a great pleasure to meet you! Many thanks for making time for this interview and I’m sure our readers will derive much benefit from your thoughts … Continue reading
The world was covered in the gloomOf swirling snow.A candle glowed in the room,A candle glowed.Like summer insects swarm to flameIn buzzing clouds,The snowflakes at windowpanesWould thickly crowd.The blizzard painted icy plumesIn frozen rows.A candle glowed in the room,A candle … Continue reading
A dark leaf runs,toyed by a winter’s wind,away from my grasptowards the trainand my father’s bodybent on the track. In the dim room, I recallonly scents of candle smoke,and notes of fruit wood,a melody which windslike cotton, around my wrists,to … Continue reading
Tell us about your journey towards becoming a poet. Childhood alienation and ill-health gave me an early passion for the written word as a vehicle of escape. Being the most elevated form of literary expression, poetry consequently became prominent … Continue reading
You were appointed Cheshire Poet Laureate in 2004, and Manchester Cathedral Poet of the Year in 2010. Congratulations! When did you first discover your passion for words? Almost as soon as I could speak it seems I was making up … Continue reading
Hello Elisabeth, it’s lovely to meet you. Can I start by asking about the foundations of your early writing inspirations? Who inspired you during your youth and adolescent years, and also can you see any aspects of your literary heroes … Continue reading