Poetry Launch: Nightlight, by Mark Ward, with Peter Scalpello and Serge Neptune

Please join us on the 28th of April to celebrate the launch of Nightlight, Mark Ward's much anticipated first collection. Nightlight represents a striking new voice in Irish poetry, traversing dark streets, clubs, and half-illuminated bodies as it addresses sexuality, mental health, and the intricacies of relationships with a fresh eye and a commanding voice; erotic, visceral, and powerfully attuned to queer history, this is a remarkable collection. Mark will be joined by Peter Scalpello, the author of the incredible collection Limbic, and Serge ♆ Neptune, author of These Queer Merboys. Please arrive at The Common Press from 7 pm. Books by all of the poets will be available to purchase on the night.

In Nightlight, Mark Ward gives us poems that are closely attuned to the body, to physical encounter, to the way history exists inside and beyond us. Ward’s poems sing from the testimony of memory, decipher its…