Salt Sea Ballads

Salt Sea Ballads by Mark Carson is an iOTA Shot Pamphlet

Mark Carson’s first job was as an engineer at the National Institute of Oceanography.  For nine years he supported work in deep-sea biology, geology and geophysics, marine physics and meteorology, and his sea-going experience is the source of most of these poems.  He has worked in other offshore industries since then, fish farming, oil and gas, renewable energy.

He has published two pamphlets with Wayleave Press;  Hove-to is a State of Mind (2015), and The Hoopoe’s Eye (2019); and one with The Damson Press,  Enraptured (2026).

Some of these poems have been published in the following:  The Poetry Shed, Obsessed with Pipework, Under the Radar, The Frogmore Papers.

ISBN 9781911132790