Join us for the launch of Mark Ward’s new collection of poetry, Real Estate. This confident second collection wonders how to successfully create your days when the ground has given way, delving into the surreal through grief, loss, and heartbreak with masterful dexterity. Introducing the collection on the night will be poet Rosamund Taylor, author of Filly and In Her Jaws.
All are welcome to attend.
Attendance is free but booking is essential.
PRAISE FOR REAL ESTATE
“Real Estate is remarkable for its fresh observations of modern life and relationships, rooted in Mark Ward’s clear-eyed studies of intimacy, vulnerability, and pain. Deft and playful, Ward’s work shines with lyric ingenuity and energy.” - Rosamund Taylor
“Dazzling, exacting, unnerving. Mark Ward’s latest collection maps an erotic architecture of sex, queer longing, grief and discovery. Artfully, the body sings through these electric poems. Real Estate claims new ground and dares you to encounter it.” - Annemarie Ní Churreáin
ABOUT MARK WARD
Born and based in Dublin, Ireland, Mark Ward is the author of the collection Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2023) and five previous pamphlets: I Was a Teenage Exorcist (Chaps Poetry, 2024), Faultlines (voidspace, 2024), HIKE (Bear Creek, 2022), Carcass (7KP, 2020) and Circumference (FLP, 2018). He is the founding editor of Impossible Archetype , an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry. A second full-length collection, Real Estate , will be published by Salmon Poetry in 2026. More info at http://linktr.ee/markwardpoet Author image by Ross Waldron.