Mark G Pennington

Author of ‘Naming the Storm’

Mark G. Pennington has published three collections of poetry and one novel.

He has poems published in magazines and anthologies all over the world, including those that have won awards and prizes.

Mark has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and he lives and writes in the north west of England where he studied Creative Writing with the Open University. 

one day he won’t be pushing the bicycle
and the river won’t talk
and the otter will be gone into fish traps
and the naming of storms will become a faithless sin

(Extract from ‘Begging for small mercy’)