Mark Schueler

Mark Schueler is a writer and musician from London.  

Born on 5th September 1985, Schueler grew up in the London Borough of Harrow. 

Schueler graduated from UEA in 2007 with a BA (Hons) degree in History. 

He is currently writing several novels as well as a memoir and regularly writes poems and songs, including lyrics and guitar parts.  

He previously formed and played guitar in the covers band, The Vagabonds and the indie rock band Vargas

His favourite writers are Chrisopher Hitchens, John Steinbeck and Jack Kerouac.  

His favourite musicians include Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, The Strokes and Neil Young. 

He has lived in the London Boroughs of Lambeth, Richmond upon Thames and Wandsworth as well as the cities of Brighton and Hove, Norwich and in the town of Nailsworth, Glos. 

His grandfather was the philosopher Frank Sibley and his second cousin is the writer and broadcaster Brian Sibley. His twin brother is the writer and musician Joel Schueler

He enjoys reading, writing, playing guitar, watching football and cricket, walking, meditating and seeing friends and family. 

England, too

England 
where one looks the other way
experts and exporters of turning a blind eye
the passive aggressive note on the flat hallway window
the ill-disciplined screaming child with the piercing voice

England, too
a ‘how are you?’ message from a caring friend
a gentle demeanour, soft rolling hills
valleys hosting a cornucopia of trees, wild arboretums of pastel greens
nascent, nebulous mists. 
honeyed stone, will-o'-the-wisps

An English café, 2023

tides of turquoise
a whippet sitting on an antique sofa
pinks & orange
wired spotlights, origami bunting
sanguine ketchup
cutlery housed in a tin plant pot
competing timbres of chatter; human birdsong, tonal colours
a cry from a woman, ‘watch what that man does with the Zimmer!’

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