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248 Spring 2022

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Mark Mordue

Mark Mordue is a writer, journalist and editor working internationally. He is a co-winner of the 2014 Peter Blazey Fellowship, which recognises an outstanding manuscript in the fields of biography, autobiography or life writing.

Articles by Mark Mordue:

Published in Overland Issue 213 Summer 2013

I didn’t know your eyes were blue

Mark Mordue

It’s possible to forget a lot of things in the fullness of time: My father’s eyes, the pale intensity of distance, how it all began.

Published in Overland Issue 206 Autumn 2012

Mayfield Blues

Mark Mordue

O man – that concrete powder twilight over Mayfield falls softly down into the mind; we’re skylarking, you see, on Vine Street, atop the hill, near The Gatsby House,