Mark Ward is a poet from Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of the collection Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2023), described as ‘assured, imaginative and surprising’ by Poetry Ireland Review, and chapbooks including Circumference (FLP, 2018), Carcass (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020), the interactive branching sonnet Faultlines (online version 2022, print version 2024) and I Was a Teenage Exorcist (Chaps Poetry, 2024). His work has appeared widely at home and abroad. He is a three-time awardee of the Arts Council of Ireland. He is the founding editor of Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry now in its ninth year. His second full-length collection, Real Estate, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in May 2026.

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