Mark Tarren

Mark Tarren is a poet who lives on remote Norfolk Island in the South Pacific.

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His work has been published in literary journals and magazines in New York, Los Angeles, Dublin, the UK and Indonesia. Referred to in Italy as “la voce dei Mari del Sud” (“The voice of the South Seas”), Mark’s poems have been translated into Italian and published in Critica Impura, L’Atrove, Pangea and Puntoacapo.

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Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2020, he is currently part of the 2023-2024 reading/selection panel for The Northern Irish Writers competition.

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The Place of First Things is his second collection of poetry.

 

Books by Mark Tarren

A New Heaven The Norfolk Poems 2021