Giving value to all the little things that make up a life.

Mark Ranger is from a small town between Southampton and the New Forest. With a BA in English & Creative Writing, and an MA in Critical Theory & Cultural Studies, his writing encompasses the overlooked details of the landscape, community, and all the little things that make up a life.

Publications:

Fragments Exhibition (June - September 2025), Nest Coffee House, Southampton.

Fragments (2024): a series of 4 collaborative, seasonal zines. Fragments Press. www.fragmentspress.co.uk

‘Ghosts of Love Lost in Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years (2015)’ in The Big Picture Magazine (2022)

Lines of Flight (2021): a series of 12 self-published zines about the social aspect of landscape

‘The Future of Class Consciousness in Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets’ in The Big Picture Magazine (2020)

Book Review of ‘Ditch vision: essays on poetry, nature and place’ in Green Letters Journal (2019)

‘Southampton’ in PORT, Dunlin Press (2019)

‘Liminal spaces as sites of transformation in Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank’ in The Big Picture Magazine (2018)

‘A dive into the twisted psychology of Dogtooth’ in The Big Picture Magazine (2018)

‘Lost Classic: Discover the sparse realism of this dystopian road movie’ in The Big Picture Magazine (2017)

Historian and musician exploring links between the self, identity, community, and the landscape. His work engages with cultural articulations and resonances of nature, and the sociopolitical avenues that these might open up, for better or worse.