Mark McGuinness | Poet

I will be reading at the Winchester Poetry Festival on Sunday 15th October, as my poem ‘The Maze’ has been longlisted for The Winchester Poetry Prize.
I and the other poets on the list will read our poems from 2pm onwards in The ARC Performance Hall. And we’ll find out on the day who the prize-winners are!...

My poem ‘Circle Charm’ has just been published in Issue 6 of Propel magazine, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf.
You can read ‘Circle Charm’ and hear me read the poem here.
You can also download a pdf of the whole of Issue 6, featuring 20 poets, here.

I’ve had a few poems published in various places in recent months, several of which are available to read online. And one of them has been translated into gold, diamonds and rubies!
Ambit
‘Chrysalis’ was Commended in the 2021 Ambit Poetry Competition, judged by Kim Addonizio. The poem was published in Ambit 245....

This Sunday I will be one of the poets taking part in a sponsored poem-a-thon organised by Poets for Ukraine, a swiftly-assembled group of poets who have come together to raise funds to help refugees from the war in Ukraine.
The reading is a partnership between Poets for Ukraine and the UK Society of Authors, The Poetry Society and The Poetry School, as well as JW3, the Jewish Community Centre in London....