Poetry. LGBT Studies. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that "Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood and you will discover that blood is spirit." Mark Walton does not merely write with blood, he wields his pen like a scalpel - marbling away fat and dead tissue with economy and precision. FROSTBITTEN is not merely a collection of poetry, it's the literary equivalent of open heart surgery.
Author City: LONDON UK
Mark Walton inhabits the back waters and the in-between places. He writes in order to share the realities of the life he lives, feels, dreams and observes. In doing so he seeks to shine a light into the darker recesses, to celebrate the magic of the ordinary and to bring the marginal and the oblique into plain view. Mark lives and performs in London, England.
“Mark Walton’s poems fizzle with energy and capture the modern gay experience in all its many guises.”
—Paul Burston
“I found FROSTBITTEN lucid, harrowing and compelling.”
—Paul Magrs
“There couldn’t be a more flawless collection of poems in our hands.”
—Rob Plath
“To say that this book is powerful in its content is almost demeaning.”
—RD Armstrong
“The poems in FROSTBITTEN radiate with an urgency that forces the reader’s eye into devouring page after page, skipping from the flushes of love through to heartache and fear.”
—Andrew Taylor