Mark Dickinson's first full length collection, Tender Geometries will be published by Shearsman (April 2015). He contributed to The Ground Aslant: an Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (2011). He practises plant based input, in a natural/ nature farming system on a croft in the North Isles of Scotland, as well as working as a builder specialising in low impact materials. He studied at Palackı and Hull.