Mark Ward is the author of the collection Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2023) and four chapbooks: Circumference (Finishing Line Press, 2018), Carcass (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020), the prose/haiku/hybrid HIKE (Bear Creek Press, 2022) and the Choose Your Own Adventure sonnet, Faultlines (voidspace, online 2022/print late 2023). His poems have been featured in The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, Poetry Ireland Review, The North, Banshee, Crannog, Southword, Skylight47, The Honest Ulsterman, ROPES, fourteen poems, Softblow and many more, as well as anthologies, the most recent of which is Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry. He was Highly Commended in the 2019 and 2022 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Awards and 2022 Fool for Poetry Chapbook Award, and in 2020 was shortlisted for the Cuirt New Writing Prize and selected for Poetry Ireland's Introductions series. In 2021 and 2022, he was awarded bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland. He has recorded poems for RTE Radio 1's Arena and The Poetry Programme, Lyric FM's Poetry File and the podcast Words Lightly Spoken. He is the founding editor of Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry, now in its sixth year.

Books by Mark Ward:

Other poems on the web by Mark Ward:
"A Life In Pictures"
Four poems
"Prop"
"Police Sketch"
Two poems
"Love Song"
"Ten Steps to be Correctly Consumed by a City"
"Threads"
Three poems
"The Lads"
"Masked for Masked"
Two poems

Mark Ward on Twitter.

About Carcass:

"The brief and putrescible flesh that forms us is the fugitive & mystifying site of devotion & erotic energy in these poems by Mark Ward, 'the place itself primordial' wherein we are made solid in a world of light. Exciting, mysterious, seductive, frightening . . . these are poems lit by moonlight & intense curiosity & speculative tomorrows."
—D. A. Powell