<p>More Mixed Messages is courageous, unflinching, authentic, informed and indefatigable. Mark doesn¿t look away, or speak in whispers. The work sits well in the rich vein of protest poetry; confronting the reader and society with visceral truths wrapped in humour and righteous anger.</p><p>Mark compels the reader to the centre of the most heightened moments, to inhabit the hard questions about themselves, about life, about society; to hear the words as they read, to feel them as they¿re heard. Asserting the questions: Am I in or out of the system? What am I made of? Do I contribute to this? If not me, then who?</p>