Azerate Poetry Prize Winner 2024

 Mark A. Hill's poetry has been published in The UK Poetry Library’s Top Writers of 2012 and the Live Canon 2013 Prize Anthology. He was highly commended in the 2015 Segora poetry prize and he was short-listed for the Canon 2015 First Collection Prize. In 2016, one of his poems was commissioned, published and performed at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, for the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death: “154 New poems, by 154 contemporary poets… in response to Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets” Published in celebration of Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary. Contributing poets include: Mark Hill. His debut novel “Mitchell Rose and The Bologna Massacre” will be published by Wallace Publishing in 2024. Highly commended in the Munster fool for poetry chapbook competition 2023. In 2024, Mark was published in DREICH  and in The Pierian. 

 He currently resides in Cagliari, Italy where he teaches English and writes. His winning poem  The Crows at My Liver is below.