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Hi everyone!

My first poetry chapbook, Circumference, is out now and I'm telling everyone about it!

Set in the 30s, 40s and 50s in Massachusetts, it tells the tale of Tommy Martin, a gay teenager, and his return almost twenty years later as an adult when he finds out his father is dying.

The official description :
"As the 1950’s draws to a close, Tommy Martin receives a telegram informing him that his father is dying and he should come home. Drawn back to Pepperell, Massachusetts, he’s forced to relive his teenage years, remember Mike the boy he loved and come face to face with the family he left behind."

A beautiful blurb by Bryan Borland:
“Mark Ward has named this slim volume of powerful poems Circumference, an apt title given the geological boundaries imposed on us by blood and heart: those things we run from; those things we run to. Here is the timeline of a life, not linear but circular, and the places and people loved and lost and sometimes found again. Here is the poetry of, if not redemption, then reckoning. Here is an understanding that coming-of-age is a process that never stops; that we all are coming-of-age no matter at which point on the circle we find ourselves. Ward has chronicled something aching and timeless in this collection: the weight of the legacies we carry, and the pull of the lives we invent for ourselves.”
–Bryan Borland, Author of DIG

It's available from the publisher, Finishing Line Press here:
(https://www.finishinglinepress.com/pr...)
and Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/Circumference-...)
and The Book Depository (https://www.bookdepository.com/Circum...)

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you like the book!