Mark The Poet - The Podcast

"The Eyes of Masks" by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark's poetry collection 'Poet of the Sphere' which was published in 2012 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark's poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet. Me - all poems © Mark Hastings

In this Special Halloween Episode, Mark reads his short story "The Witch in the Well" from his 2016 book of short stories and poetry 'Too Close To The Sun'. All of Mark's books are available as ebooks/paperback from Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Waterstones, and all other good online bookstores. © Mark Hastings

"Worth Every Verse" by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark's poetry collection 'Poet of the Sphere' which was published in 2012 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark's poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet. Me - all poems © Mark Hastings

"Love" by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark's poetry collection 'Poet of the Sphere' which was published in 2012 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark's poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet. Me - all poems © Mark Hastings

"Loving in Silence" by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark's poetry collection 'Poet of the Sphere' which was published in 2012 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark's poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet. Me - all poems © Mark Hastings

In this episode Mark talks about one of his favourite films: the 2006 dark fantasy film "Pan's Labyrinth" written, directed, and co-produced by Guillermo del Toro. Set during the summer of 1944, five years after the Spanish Civil War, the story of the film centres upon a 10 year-old girl called Ofelia (played by Ivana Baquero) who encounters a faun (played by Doug Jones) within an abandoned stone...

"Halcyon" by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark's poetry collection 'Poet of the Sphere' which was published in 2012 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark's poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet. Me - all poems © Mark Hastings

"Epic" by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark's poetry collection 'Poet of the Sphere' which was published in 2012 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark's poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet. Me - all poems © Mark Hastings

"Unica" by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark's poetry collection 'Poet of the Sphere' which was published in 2012 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark's poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet. Me - all poems © Mark Hastings

"It's Always Been You" by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark's poetry collection 'Poet of the Sphere' which was published in 2012 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark's poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet. Me - all poems © Mark Hastings

"Bigger on the Inside" by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark's poetry collection 'Poet of the Sphere' which was published in 2012 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark's poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet. Me - all poems © Mark Hastings

"Forever Dreamer" by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark's poetry collection 'Poet of the Sphere' which was published in 2012 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark's poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet. Me - all poems © Mark Hastings

"The Theory of Poetry" by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark's poetry collection 'Poet of the Sphere' which was published in 2012 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark's poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet. Me - all poems © Mark Hastings

"The Poet" by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark's poetry collection 'Poet of the Sphere' which was published in 2012 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark's poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet. Me - all poems © Mark Hastings

In this episode Mark does a review of one of his favourite episodes from one of his favourite TV series: 'Doctor Who' - S8, E4: "Listen" (2014) written by Steven Moffat and directed by Douglas Mackinnon. Starring Peter Capaldi as The Doctor and Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald.

In this episode Mark talks about one of his favourite films: the 1988 American fantasy comedy film "Beetlejuice", directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis as Adam and Barbara Maitland, a recently deceased couple who become ghosts that haunt their former home, who attempt to scare away the new residents of their house, the Deetz family - consisting of Charles, Delia, and...

In this episode Mark talks about one of his favourite films: the 2013 American adventure comedy-drama film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" directed, co-produced by, and starring Ben Stiller. The second film adaptation of James Thurber's 1939 short story of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", the story revolves around Walter Mitty, a negative assets manager at Life magazine who regularly daydreams...

In this episode Mark does a *Spoiler* review of the critically acclaimed South Korean survival drama Netflix television series "Squid Game". The series centres on a contest in which 456 players, from all different walks of life but who each are deeply in debt, participate in a set of children's games for the chance to win a ₩45.6 billion prize - however the penalty for losing in a game is death, w...

In this episode Mark talks about the 2021 American science fiction action comedy film "Free Guy" directed by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn. The film stars Ryan Reynolds as a bank teller, named Guy, who discovers that he is actually a non-player character in a open-world video game and becomes the hero of the story. The film also stars Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel H...

In this episode Mark recites four of the most recent poems that he has written and he talks about what inspired him to write them, including his poem "Forté", "The Best of Us", "The Mark of New York", and "Back to the Theatre". You can read more of Mark's poetry on his website @ http://MarkThePoet. Me

In this episode Mark talks about one of his favourite films: the 2005 American superhero horror film "Constantine" directed by Francis Lawrence. Based on the DC Comics' 'Hellblazer' comic book, the film stars Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, a cynical exorcist with the ability to perceive and communicate with half-angels and half-demons in their true form, who finds himself being drawn into the i...

In this episode Mark talks about one of his favourite films: the 2019 American superhero horror film "Brightburn" directed by David Yarovesky, written by Mark Gunn and Brian Gunn, and produced by Jamed Gunn and Kenneth Huang. The film stars Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Matt Jones and Meredith Hagner, and the plot follows Brandon Breyer, a young boy of extraterrestrial origin who...

In this episode Mark talks about the 2021 American crime film "The Many Saints of Newark" directed by Alan Taylor and written by David Chase and Lawrence Konner. A prequel to David Chase's HBO crime drama TV series "The Sopranos", the film stars Michael Gandolfini, Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, Michela De Rossi, John Magaro, Ray Liotta, and Vera Fa...

In this episode Mark does a review of the first season of the American psychological thriller television series "You" developed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble. Based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Caroline Kepnes, the story follows the character of Joe Goldberg (played by Penn Badgley), a New York bookstore manager and serial killer who falls in love with a customer, Guinevere Beck (playe...

In this episode Mark talks about the 1931 American science fiction horror film "Frankenstein" directed by James Whale, produced by Larmmle Jr., and adapted from 1927 play by the Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel 'Frankenstien; or The Modern Prometheus'. The film stars Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Dwight Frye, and Edward van Sloan.