Background
Mark Granier was born in London in 1957.
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Fade Street
(These sensual, compact poems work with concentrated image...)
These sensual, compact poems work with concentrated imagery and effects of light and shade. They can be appreciated, like memorable photographs or songs thrown out on to the dark, without any 'irritable reaching after fact and reason' or effort beyond the turning of a page.
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Mark Granier
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He completed an Master of Arts in Poetry/Creative Writing with Lancaster University and has been teaching creative writing in University College Dublin for several years.
Career
Ireland Review describes Granier as, "a poet of individual poems," poems that are, "perfectly operating verbal machines, which are their own fulfillment, with everything concentrated on the final, sealing line." He has published four poetry collections: Airborne (Salmon, 2001), The Sky Road (Salmon, 2007), Fade Street (Salt Publishing, 2010) and Haunt (Salmon, 2015). He received three Arts Council bursaries, in 2002, 2008 and 2013. The Irish Times describes Granier"s Fade Street, in which the title poem is a reflection on a Victorian era photograph, as "ekphrastic." In its review of Fade Street, Ireland Review, describes Garnier as, "well-known for his visual sense." Mark Granier’s photography work includes portraits of some well-known writers and performers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jo Brand.
Apart from furnishing the cover photography for his four poetry collections, he has done cover work for a number of publishers, including Faber & Faber, The O’Brien Press, Salmon, Ireland Review and The Stinging Fly.
The literary/photographic journal Irish Pages published a portfolio of his work in 2011 and his photographs have regularly appeared in The Guardian Weekend Magazine and have been exhibited in two group shows in London (in The Oxo Gallery on The South Bank and The Guardian Offices). In 2012 he was awarded the jury prize in The Open House Photographic competition run by the Architecture Foundation.
In 2015 his work was selected by Mark Saint John Ellis (of nag Gallery, Dublin) to appear in an open submission competition/exhibition, Home, in the Municipal Gallery in The Lexicon Library in Dún Laoghaire. He was also awarded runner-up prize in this competition.
His work has also been exhibited in the 2015 Royal Hibernian Academy annual exhibition in Dublin.
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Fade Street
(These sensual, compact poems work with concentrated image...)
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Fade Street
