Mark Halliday was born in Glasgow in 1964 and grew up in various parts of Scotland. He began writing poetry for children, and the title poem of his book Teacher on a Horse won the Times Educational Supplement competition in 2003.
In August 2004 Dagger Press published his first collection for 'grown ups', entitled For Crying Out Loud. It documents his early experience of living with cancer, and featured at a joint reading with internationally acclaimed author Gillian Slovo in September 2004. His recent work looks at the struggle between suffering and hope and the 'never mundane' experience of raising an autistic child. He is married with three children and lives in York, where he is the headteacher of a primary school.
Mark Halliday
Lost For Words
At Greenbelt Mark will leading workshops on how poetry can act as a tool for making sense of life's big challenges.
People are often moved to write in times of extremity, and Lost For Words will look at how poetry can help us explore and articulate things in our lives that leave us speechless. There will be well known examples from established work, various brief writing exercises that provide good starting points and focus, and the opportunity to write and share within the session.
Click here for Mark's website.
