Mark Ward

Mark Ward is the author of the chapbooks Circumference (Finishing Line Press, 2018), Carcass (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020), Faultlines (Voidspace, 2022) and HIKE (Bear Creek Press, 2022). As well as appearing in many journals, both at home and abroad, he has featured in numerous anthologies, including the landmark Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry (The Lifeboat Press, 2021). He was Highly Commended in the 2019 and 2022 Patrick Kavanagh Awards and in 2020 was selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series. In 2021 and 2022, he was awarded bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland. He is the founding editor of Impossible Archetype, a biannual international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry.