Books by Mark Staniforth

"The Sonnet," wrote Phillis Levin in her introduction to The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, "is a portrait of the mind in action." In committing to the creation of one sonnet per day for a year, 'Anti-Sonnets' challenges the convention of toilsome authorship and instead renders the process of production at centre stage. Building on a vast contextual scaffold, 'Anti-Sonnets' uncovers the form's true post-internet potential.

Porn stars and serial killers, nazis and nymphomanics, hunchbacks and bare-knuckle boxers: just a few of the disparate cast of characters who call the remote moorland community of Fryupdale their home. These 18 short stories reveal the truths behind their lonely, sad and sometimes hilarious lives - and why the world beyond village limits will always seem so distant.

FLUXCUP is the product of a year-long aleatory event in which three hundred and sixty-four nations and territories played off in a knockout tournament determined by the roll of two dice. In collaging found texts to chronicle each nation in relation to the stage of its exit, FLUXCUP confronts inescapable nationalistic stereotypes and resists age-old cartological hierarchies to compile a truly aleato-geographical atlas of the world.

Argues that material goods were a necessary adjunct to the successful colonization of Australia demonstrating that it was necessary to establish trade networks that provided adequate supplies of culturally 'appropriate' food, drink and other consumer goods for the newly arrived colonists.