Böcker av Mark Waldron

Serious, comic, brave, cowardly, engaged, disengaged, urgent, unurgent, chattering chiffchaff, talking horses, unpretentious, pretentious: Mark Waldron's expansive fifth collection encompasses it all.There are a series of fairytale poems, and others which give unfettered voice to the character of Marcie, a character who has appeared in Mark Waldron's previous books. But behind the humour and playfulness, there is always something deeply unmeant, meant. Readers of Mark Waldron's previous collections will find all of his trademark wit and imagination here, as well as new poetic territory as Waldron continues to develop his distinctive voice.

Mark Waldron's fourth collection shows his always surreal work delivering even more surprises as he depicts the absurdity behind the posturing of human beings in society. Sometimes metaphysical, sometimes apparently confessional, often hilarious, they show our lives as both funny and sad, dark and light, silly and serious.

POETRY BANK CHOICE. Mark Waldron's debut collection The Brand New Dark is a book about sex, eyes, eggs, dogs, death and sausages. Funny, dark, disconcerting and moving, this entertaining collection of accessible poems is a book for all the people who don't like poetry as well as for the people who do.

Ex-Salt poet Mark Waldron joins Bloodaxe with his third collection. 'Mark Waldron is the most striking and unusual new voice to have emerged in British poetry for some time.' - John Stammers

The Itchy Sea is an extraordinarily vivid collection of poems which are, above all, entertaining. The poems each have a kind of freshness and cut-through that will hold the general reader's attention. Their concerns are sex, death, the soul and a chocolate car.