Mark Ward

Artist, Blogger, Event planner, Gay, Musician, Performer, Producer, Project manager, Public servant, Student, Writer/Editor

Mark Ward is a poet, librarian and cabaret artist from Dublin, Ireland. As a poet, his work has appeared in numerous journals across the world, from Ireland to Australia and back again, and he has appeared in the anthologies, 'Not Just Another Pretty Face,' 'The Myriad Carnival,' and 'Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed'. He was the Poet Laureate of 'Glitterwolf' and a featured poet in Ireland's Lingo Festival. His first book, 'Circumference,' is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Mark has worked in public libraries for thirteen years. He currently works in Library Development, overseeing county-wide event programmes and producing their large-scale annual Red Line Book Festival. He has also presented at numerous conferences and has published articles in An Leabharlann and Cataloging and Classification Quarterly. As a cabaret artist, under the name Fake Plastic Steve, he is a member of the underCURRENT troupe, and regularly performs all over Dublin.

Poetry, LGBTQ+ Issues, Performance, Music

That libraries can, and should, promote their range of stock better by setting up a library staff book review blog, like Ballyroan Reads, which will also act not only as a creative outlet for staff, but also as a form of book index that will complement the library catalogue

Curation, Event Management, Event Production, Libraries, Poetry, Writing

Had heard of TED many times, but I think the first video I remember watching was Amanda Palmer's 'The Art of Asking'. Have been involved in the organising and running of TEDxTallaght for a few years and am now looking to take over production of TEDxTallaght.

Editing - I edited an anthology for work a few years back and last year, I launched Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ poetry