A professional actor, percussionist, photographer and journalist Mark's poetry has been conversely described as 'Pop Poetry' and 'Dub Poetry' and his body of work is considered to be '...the zeitgeist of social commentary.' That is according to Mark who was born in Lambeth, south-west London (sometime in the 1970s). He studied politics and philosophy and, later, post-graduate journalism at the University of Central Lancashire. He was accidentally elected as Students Union president in 1999 much to his distress.