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Praise for STRANGERS LIKE YOU and SOUL BARKER

Mark Mansfield is a poet with a painterly eye and a neat touch. . . . He speaks with a quiet beauty, his placement and weighting of words astute and delicate. This lends an important quality to his poetry: cadence. When a poet gets a full grasp on the pace and heft of words, the effect can be sublime. . . .

--Charlie Baylis, Sabotage Reviews

[Mansfield's] is a unique combination of casual, at...
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Praise for STRANGERS LIKE YOU and SOUL BARKER

Mark Mansfield is a poet with a painterly eye and a neat touch. . . . He speaks with a quiet beauty, his placement and weighting of words astute and delicate. This lends an important quality to his poetry: cadence. When a poet gets a full grasp on the pace and heft of words, the effect can be sublime. . . .

--Charlie Baylis, Sabotage Reviews

[Mansfield's] is a unique combination of casual, at times slangy language within formal verse forms. I have never read anyone who writes in quite this way and the effect is arresting. . . . His musicianship is evident in the ease and confidence with which he uses rhythm; words 'land' perfectly but are never ostentatious.

Ghosts are familiars in every sense--Mansfield creates a sense that hauntings are commonplace . . . .

--Tanya Parker, Dream Catcher

[Mark Mansfield] has much to say and show . . . a Marlow spinning a tale of a grim and fascinating world populated by that most crazy and emotional animal, the human.

--Phil Wagner, The Iconoclast

[Soul Barker] is a collection which repays rereading many times. The themes of music, horror, lost content and passing of time, haunting and humanity are big ones, but so deftly handled. These poems do what poems should: they speak to the reader in the silence of her or his mind, and echo there.

--Angela Topping, London Grip