Mark Haywood is a British poet and composer. He enjoys working with the challenges of formal poetry, particularly the sonnet and the limerick, and has had several sonnets and sonnet sequences published in the UK, Canada and the USA. Some of his sequences have dealt with topics that are uncommon in the sonnet form, for example art criticism and jazz theory. Mark is currently working on translating some of Molière’s classic comedies into rhyming verse. Some of this work has been shortlisted and longlisted in the John Dryden Translation Competition. In addition to writing poetry, Mark enjoys composing and has had two collections of piano music published, one of which is a book of ragtime. He has also had some articles on jazz published.