Mark Seton Mark Seton i(A117846 works by) (a.k.a. Mark Cariston Seton)
Gender: Male
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1 Mark Seton Reviews Text Messages from the Universe by Richard James Allen Mark Seton , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 29 2023;

— Review of Text Messages from the Universe Richard James Allen , 2023 selected work poetry

'It’s 2023, and our world flounders under an encroaching deluge of Artificial Intelligence apps, especially ChatGPT, that might enable anyone to ‘generate’ poetry, so why bother! The good news, I believe, is that the poetry that touches us, moves us and connects us still emerges from a living, breathing, feeling, embodied poet. That’s what Richard James Allen generously offers the reader in his latest work Text Messages from the Universe. And it’s fun too!' (Introduction)

1 More Lies – Review Mark Seton , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: FemAsia , October 2021;

— Review of More Lies Richard James Allen , 2021 single work novella
1 Inventive Interplay : Mark Seton Reviews ‘The Short Story of You and I’ by Richard James Allen Mark Seton , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , September no. 27 2019;

— Review of The Short Story of You and I Richard James Allen , 2019 selected work poetry

'I always get the sense after reading his poetry that Richard James Allen must thrive on human connection. In this latest anthology, a poem could be short as the line of a single sentence (excluding the title for it) or long and potentially unwieldy, filling 17 pages with concepts and riffs far more complex, yet entreating the listener/reader to persist with the seemingly one-sided conversation. I last reviewed Allen’s Fixing the Broken Nightingale (2014) and, upon embarking the reading of this new collection, I was reminded repeatedly about what I enjoy and value in his writing – an ever-deepening gift and capacity to bring together words, phrases, pauses, gaps, alignments, mal-alignments and punctuations that trigger our senses, our memories, our consciences and our consciousness with things we know (which we had forgotten) and things we didn’t know that could be known.' (Introduction) 

1 Hollywood May Be Able to Afford #MeToo, but It’s a Stretch for the Australian Arts Luke Hopper , Mark Seton , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 7 March 2019;

'Sarah is an aspiring actor, recently graduated from a prestigious acting school. She lands her first contract with a major theatre company to work with a respected director. The play includes performance of a simulated rape scene. Over the weeks of rehearsal, Sarah finds it difficult to get out of the role and relax. She becomes increasingly angry at her boyfriend and finds she can’t keep the role separate from her life. She can’t sleep well. Yet she is encouraged by the director to “ride the wave of emotion”.' (Introduction)

1 Review : Fixing the Broken Nightingale by Richard James Allen Mark Seton , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Latest Writing 2014-2016;

— Review of Fixing the Broken Nightingale Richard James Allen , 2014 selected work poetry
1 Untitled Mark Seton , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 53 2008; (p. 228-230)

— Review of Riflemind Andrew Upton , 2007 single work drama
1 Untitled Mark Seton , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 53 2008; (p. 230-232)

— Review of It Just Stopped [and] Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America : A Drama in 30 Scenes : Two Plays Stephen Sewell , 2007 selected work drama
1 The Exhilaration and Anxiety of Free Fall Mark Seton , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Jacket , October no. 33 2007;

— Review of The Kamikaze Mind Richard James Allen , 2006 single work novel
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