The syllabic poetry of Mark Antony Owen centres on that world where the rural bleeds into the suburban – a world he calls ‘subrural’.

 

Since 2010, Mark has written about this world using his own nine original forms, sometimes with subtle variations.

 

At times general, at others, intensely personal, Mark’s economic poetry cycles through themes of love and loss and what we think we remember; shifts unchronologically between things recalled and things observed.

 

Based in subrural East Hampshire, Mark is the author of digital-only poetry project Subruria. He’s also the creator and curator of quarterly journal and poet library iamb, and the ekphrastic poetry fortnightly After ...