Mark Waldron’s third collection, Meanwhile, Trees, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2016. He was selected as a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society in 2014.

Called ‘the most striking and unusual new voice’ in contemporary British poetry’ by John Stammers, Mark Waldron brings us a world at once real and unreal, familiar and strange. His self-reflexive poems break the fourth wall and then give the fourth wall a personality.

Maria Lewandowska interviews poet Mark Waldron, author of The Brand New Dark (2008), The Itchy Sea (2011), and Meanwhile, Trees (2016), who will be teaching the Advanced Poetry Course at Poetry School next term.

By Mark Waldron. Share. On occasion, when the mood takes him. as it so often does, he will put down. his papers, get up from his kindly old chair, and leave for a while the sweeping beam. to sow its charitable seed — that seed which, when falling on the ground.

Mark Waldron’s fourth collection, 'Sweet, like Rinky-Dink' was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2019. He was selected as a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society in 2014.

By Mark Waldron. Share. what a saint you are, shining on everything, drawn to the world like flames are to moths, like honey to bees. So readily do you dole. yourself out, and in such abundance so that. we might operate our otherwise redundant eyes. For they’d be useless even as shiny bibelots.

Mark Waldron was born in New York in 1960 and grew up in London. He began writing poetry in his early forties and published two collections with Salt, The Brand New Dark (2008) and The Itchy Sea (2011).

Mark Waldron’s third collection, Meanwhile, Trees, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2016. He was selected as a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society in 2014.

Mark Waldron was born in New York in 1960 and grew up in London. He lives in East London with his wife and son, and began writing poetry in his early 40s. He published two collections with Salt, The Brand New Dark (2008) and The Itchy Sea (2011), which were followed by three from Bloodaxe, Meanwhile, Trees (2016), Sweet, like Rinky-Dink (2019 ...

Called ‘the most striking and unusual new voice’ in contemporary British poetry’ by John Stammers, Mark Waldron brings us a world at once real and unreal, familiar and strange.