Come along to the Castlemaine launch of Mark’s fifth poetry collection published by Birdfish Books, A Beginner’s Guide. This is a book of mornings, of learning “at last, to stand in the light of the world”. It is a lyric argument for presence, for stubborn gladness, for the work art does in keeping us alive, and it finds beauty in hard places. 

These poems console and challenge and mourn and celebrate. They call us to attention—within ourselves and out into the world. These poems are a cry for justice and an act of love.To read these poems is to travel geographies and times and selves and all the while deeper into your own humanity, your own being with the rest of the miraculous world.

Venue: Coolroom at the Northern Arts Hotel

Address: 359 Barker St, Castlemaine, Victoria.

Enquire here with Birdfish Books.

Tegan Gigante from Bridfish Books in conversation with Mark.