Mark Totterdell

In this, his first full collection, Mark combines a clear and precise observation of the natural world with a passion for language and words.

Sample poem: Pied Wagtails

Oversteps publications

This Patter of Traces (2014)

Recent news

  • Robert Stein has been shortlisted in both the Winchester Poetry competition and the Bridport Prize.

     

    Mark Totterdell was highly commended in the Winchester Poetry competition, received special mention in the recent Sentinel Literary Quarterly poetry competition and won the Happenstance Press competition for blank verse.

     

    A C Clarke was shortlisted in the Lord Whisky Animal Sanctuary competition, commended in the Poets meet Politics competition, won first prize in the Beyond Borders competition and first prize in the Second Light Long Poem competition.

    [30-Oct-19 ]


  • Christopher North was highly commended in the Café Writers competition,2018

    Mark Totterdell was highly commended in the Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival poetry competition

    Tony Watts was awarded joint 3rd prize in the Barnett Open poetry competition,
    and was commended in the Sentinel Literary Quarterly open poetry competition
    and was shortlisted in the Littoral Press Nature Poetry Collection competition

    Rose Flint won the Littoral Press Nature Poetry Collection competition

    Ian Royce Chamberlain had 3 poems shortlisted in the Plough poetry competition

    [9-May-19 ]


  • Mark Totterdell was on the shortlist of the Bridport Poetry Prize

    [10-Nov-16 ]


  • Mark Totterdell was on the shortlist of the Bridport Poetry prize again this year, repeating his success of three years ago.

    [7-Nov-16 ]


  • Congratulations to Mark Totterdell who has won 1st price in the Poetry Pulse annual competition.

    [28-Aug-16 ]