Slimming for the Beach

The poet Mark Granier rang me up about a lit­er­ary mat­ter the other day and in the course of our con­ver­sa­tion men­tioned his photo blog on blip­foto, which I must con­fess I never heard of.
It’s called Sky­road,
after his forth­com­ing col­lec­tion from Salmon. I logged into it while were talk­ing and was blown away, as they say in the best cir­cles. I vaguely knew that Mark “did” pho­tog­ra­phy, but I had no idea he was so tal­ented. He’s a fine poet too, and it shows in his com­men­tary on the pho­tos, where he quotes his own work or Sea­mus Heaney or Ted Hughes, or who­ever is appro­pri­ate. This is well worth check­ing out.
He has another blog, Light­box, which I haven’t yet had time to check out.

You can read some of Mark’s poems from his first book air­borne on Salmon Poetry. His new book from the same press will be avail­able in mid-May.

UPDATE: apolo­gies, I gave just the blip­foto home page for Sky­road. The link should work now.