Mark Russell has published three full collections prior to Come to the River: Men Who Repeat Themselves (erbacce press, 2022), Shopping for Punks (Hesterglock, 2017), and Spearmint & Rescue (Pindrop, 2016). His pamphlets are published by Red Ceilings, tall-lighthouse, and Kattywompus. He won the Magma Poetry Judge's Prize in 2020, and the erbacce-poetry prize in 2022. His poems have been published in a variety of magazines and journals, including Stand, Shearsman, Poetry Wales, The Manchester Review, The Rialto, Tears in the Fence, The Interpreter's House, Molly Bloom, Gutter, New Writing Scotland, Poetry Salzburg Review, Tentacular, and Blackbox Manifold.
