For much of the last four decades, MARK ROBERTS has been involved in writing, criticism and publishing. In 1982, he established P76magazine in with Adam Aitken and has  been involved in small press publishing ever since. In 2011 he set up the on-line journal Rochford Street Review, which has recently published its 41st issue; the Review is  one of the leading and most long-lasting  independent (that is non-funded) cultural journals in the world.

The Office of Literary Endeavours is Mark’s third book, after Stepping out of Line (Rochford Street Press 1986) and Concrete Flamingos, Island Press 2016. After the publication of Stepping Out of Line, Ron Pretty—the legendary founder of 5 Islands Press—invited Mark to Wollongong University to talk to his students about writing, criticism and small press publishing. For many years following, he wrote reviews and criticism for the University’s SCARP magazine.

Mark was the winner of the 2016 Byron Bay Poetry Prize and runner up in 2013 Joanne Burns Award. He longlisted in the Joanne Burns Award in 2014 and 2019, and the Liquid Amber Poetry Prize in 2023.