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This episode is a part of Mark’s “A Journey Through Poetry” – a personal reflection of his life as a poet, a writer, and an author – in which he recites a different poem from every one of his poetry collections. In this episode Mark recites his poem ‘World Between Worlds’, from his poetry collection The Comeback Kid, and he gives some insight and some context into why he was inspired to write this poem in particular.
The more you live, the more you grow, the more you see, the more you hear, the more you experience things changing in profound, considerable, and unexpected ways, the more you become aware and accustomed to the insatiably complex nature of the world… the more you learn about yourself and the way things are and have always been, the more you start to understand and appreciate the things that have happened - both the good and the bad - that everything and everyone has in common with each other… the more you believe in the power of a person to be able to change their mind about what they have always believed, the more that you realise that people are not just driven by instinct alone; because sometimes some people have such an outpouring of empathy and compassion for others whom they don’t know that they even surprise themselves and their level of charity and generosity as a result can even surprise and surpass any and every expectation that they might have had of their own actions… the more you do to educate yourself on what is true and what is false, on what can be described and what can be proven, the more you learn that so much of what we all do and what we have always done comes down to what we are capable of sacrificing in order to achieve a sense of purpose in our lives - and sometimes the price we are faced with we deem to be too high, while sometimes some people find that have no choice but to do what must be done… the more you do not judge the person next to you, or the person who is just trying to do their best to find out why they are who and what they are, the more that you will see that nothing and nobody will ever truly fit the model of who they are sometimes told they are expected to be - because even those people who attempt to publicly emulate someone else behind closed doors everyone is their own self with their own thoughts, feelings, and emotions on things and on people, but sometimes everybody has to keep their own council on what to say and what not to say; however, there are some people who believe that it is their responsibility to challenge, to argue, and to defend each and every arena of self-expression, because there are so many places in the world where the freedom to say, and to be who you want to be, is not a guarantee… the more you accept that the more you know the more you will be able to make something that much more interesting and meaningful to you, the more you will experience a new and a sometimes more nuanced view of everything and everyone, and the more that you see the cracks in the facade of those who portray themselves as someone and something seemingly untouchable to the overriding principles and the laws of nature - those described, as well as those intrinsic to life as we know it on this planet - the more you can come to realise that nothing you can imagine is ever truly outside of the realms of possibility.
This episode is a part of Mark’s “A Journey Through Poetry” – a personal reflection of his life as a poet, a writer, and an author – in which he recites a different poem from every one of his poetry collections. In this episode Mark recites his poem ‘Where It All Started’, from his poetry collection Poet of the Multiverse, and he gives some insight and some context into why he was inspired to write this poem in particular.
Sister and brother, Olivia Hunter and Mark Mayweather – separated from one another all their lives – are once again drawn together; however, their reunion does not unfold as they hoped it would, and as a result they find themselves on opposite sides of a life and death struggle that will expose who they are, what they are, and what kind of a werewolf they both are.
And witness the reunification and the reckoning of the relationship of Olivia Hunter and Vega – The Vampire King. Will their love survive the battle being fought beneath The Shadow of The Wolf?
This episode is a part of Mark’s “A Journey Through Poetry” – a personal reflection of his life as a poet, a writer, and an author – in which he recites a different poem from every one of his poetry collections. In this episode Mark recites his poem ‘Dreams Of The Moment’, from his poetry collection The Rambler, and he gives some insight and some context into why he was inspired to write this poem in particular.
If looked down upon from space our planet, Earth, would be seen to be a shining blue sphere teaming with possibilities and full of potential; however, you would never be able to see everything and everyone that exists on our beautiful world from orbit because you would be too removed - but if you were able to listen to what humanity broadcasts, transmits, and has shared every moment of every day, for over half a century now, then you might find it hard to understand everything that everyone is saying to one another; however, if you were to travel farther from Earth - say fifty light-years away - then you would be able to receive the transmissions of humanity that left our planet fifty years ago, and it would be like discovering a message in a bottle, or an audio signal of an era in time, that travelled at the speed of light from its source to be heard by anyone or anything that was listening in Earth’s direction.
Earth has always been a world full of stories, of civilisations, of beliefs, and our ideas about why things are the way that they are, and Earth has always been a world of invention and of dreamers who hope to be given the answer to the question of whether we are alone in the universe… for all of human existence, groups of individuals - such as scientists, artists, musicians, and believers in a particular religion - have sought to reach out their grasp and touch the face of the unknown, and reveal the truth about the meaning of life and why we are here; and since we have had the means and the resources to send living beings into space to relay back what awaits us far beyond the clouds - from dogs, to chimpanzees, to humans - as well as robotic sojourners capable of sending back images of the planets and the moons of our solar system, as well as photographs of the extraordinary phenomenon of our galaxy, humanity has been uncovering the history of the universe as well as the possibilities of reality.
In 1977, two gold disks were launched along with their respective Voyager spacecraft containing a greeting from the people of Earth, as well as images and depictions of human anatomy and the building blocks of life, the location of the sun and our solar system, and also recordings of some of the sounds that can be found and heard on our planet - such as the sound of waves crashing, birdsong, whale song, and a selection of some of the human languages that our species has evolved to use for communication between one another for centuries… even now, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 - not to mention all the other probes we have sent out into space - continue their mission and their journey into the great unknown, hopefully to be one day found by another, similar, space-faring, intelligent, innovative, and inquisitive race of beings who might wish to see whom it was that chose to take a leap of faith and send an invitation to a fellow member of the galactic community to visit a beautiful planet that is full of people, plants, animals, and other things that need to be seen and heard to be truly believed and understood; however, it’s entirely possible that we have already been visited by an intelligent interplanetary extraterrestrial species of explorers, who were drawn to our world a long time ago and who have already bore witness to the wonders of our planet, and who have long since become obsessed with the infinite number of the sounds of Earth.
I remember January 10th, 2016, like it was yesterday… I remember what I was doing and where I was on the day when I heard that David Bowie had died… and I remember what I did next: I wrote a poem. I wrote a poem for David Bowie called “Always The Starman”, because I wanted to pay tribute to him, to who he was, and to what he and his music meant to so many people from all around the world. Then, not long after, I was inspired to write a short story that was not about David Bowie per se but his spirit definitely influenced it, my story “The Man in Black”; and following on from my short story I would go on to write six more short stories once again influenced by the spirit of David Bowie, which I would go on to collect together and have published in my short story collection “Playing God”. The original 2018 paperback version of “Playing God” had this image of David Bowie on the cover which I drew against a starry backdrop, and the 2024 hardback version featured a cover which was inspired by a sketch of David Bowie which was already within my book – but I gave it a fresh twist of colour and detail. Anyway, suffice to say, if it weren’t for David Bowie then I don’t know who I would be right now, because David Bowie has inspired me and he has influenced me for years in one way or another. I am so grateful for the spirit and the music of David Bowie which has visited me and inspired me so many times over the years, and I know that I am not the only one who feels that way. Rest in peace, David Bowie. Thank you, Starman. ⭐ 🖤
This episode is a part of Mark’s “A Journey Through Poetry” – a personal reflection of his life as a poet, a writer, and an author – in which he recites a different poem from every one of his poetry collections. In this episode Mark recites his poem ‘Tales of Wonder Lands’, from his poetry collection The Dreamer and The Dream, and he gives some insight and some context into why he was inspired to write this poem in particular.
My Poem “The Wolf Moon” which I wrote in 2020 – which was published in my poetry collection ‘The Rambler’, originally published in paperback in 2020 and republished in hardback in 2024.
Mark The Poet 