Mark T Watson was born in Liverpool UK in the mid sixties to mixed parents. His mother a Welsh woman raised him after the tragic paralysis of his Guyanese father when he was just a boy. Mark has been a dish washer, a toilet cleaner, a milkman, a labourer, a potato bagger, a salesman, a merchant seaman, an advertising manager, a marketing co-ordinator, a tour manager, a roadie, a sales and marketing manager, a researcher, a research project manager, a business advisor, the director of Merseyside Refugee Support Network, a director of Hornby Housing, a director of a housing CO-OP, an author and a publisher. He holds a BA Hons. in Geography & Sociology, a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Social Research and is an Associate of The Institute of Business Advisors. Mark Converted to Islam after meeting the Last Poets and became Malik Al Nasir, founder of Fore-Word Press. He has recently made a film about his life and based upon his book "Ordinary Guy" called "Word Up - From Ghetto to Mecca" featuring Gil Scott Heron, The Last Poets and Benjamin Zephaniah, release on DVD 2006.
"Exhilarating! This must read collection, is a black Liverpudlians odyssey to find his 'truth' expressed in beautiful but always hard hitting poetry". Eddie Amoo (The Real Thing). "Mark Watson has spent years touring and hanging out with 'Gil Scott Heron' and 'The Last Poets'. Check out the foreword of his book. This has been some life". Pete Wylie (The Mighty WAH). "As a white man living in Liverpool, I felt privileged to read these powerful poems, which give some insight into the emotions and history of the black people of this city. These aren't poems about 'daffodils' they're about human beings and their lives. Mark is no 'ordinary guy' but he gives voice to all the ordinary lives of black people in this city." Roger Phillips (BBC Radio Merseyside).
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