Mark Pajak was born in Merseyside in 1987. His work has received a Northern Writers' Award, a Society of Authors' Grant, an Eric Gregory Award and a UNESCO international writing residency. Slide was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the John Pollard International Poetry Prize and won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize.
Every spare word has been stripped ... Slide is the most polished
debut here.
*Daily Telegraph, *2022 TS Eliot Prize Shortlist**
Mark Pajak's debut does not read like a debut: there is no fumbling
beginner's luck, no rough moments or threadbare patches - it's
polished craftsmanship throughout is striking... Slide deserves to
be a blazing success.
*Observer, *Poetry Book of the Month**
[A] poised and visceral debut... Pajak's writing pulses with a
rhythmic intensity which compels the reader not to look away.
*Guardian*
A tremendously empathetic book, it is full of compassion for people
and animals, whose pain is felt vividly... Unlike so many hyped
debut collections, Slide more than lives up to readers'
expectations.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Mark Pajak's skillful poems keep themselves open, especially to
childhood and adolescent experience. Even so, they are far from
frail - their insight and imaginative verve make them robust as
well as eloquent.
*Carol Ann Duffy*
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