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About me: Mark Amos-Jones
Mark Amos-Jones is a poet and spoken-word performer based in Abergele, North Wales. His work draws on lived experience—navigating life with cerebral palsy, visual impairment, and a learning disability—and transforms it into honest, resonant poetry.
From defying early expectations of mobility to building confidence in education and community life, Mark has consistently carved out his own path rather than accept society’s assumptions. For him, poetry is both a release and a purpose: a space to voice frustration at injustice, to celebrate connection, and to examine disability with truth and dignity.
While Mark first encountered creative writing at school, his passion was reignited thanks to the encouragement of his Gig Buddy and friend, Alan Whitfield, a respected poet and artist whose support helped him rediscover his voice.
🔗 Alan’s poetry site
Mark’s poems—such as Life Sentence, Leading Lights, 40 Minutes, and From Silence, We Turn—explore inclusion, identity, rural Wales and the power of voice. He regularly performs at VoiceBox Wrexham, one of Wales’s leading spoken-word nights.
🔗 VoiceBox Instagram
Through writing and performance, Mark speaks up for those too often unheard—proving that lived experience and disability deserve a central place in Welsh literature.
Amdanaf i: Mark Amos-Jones
Mae Mark Amos-Jones yn fardd a pherfformiwr geiriau llafar o Abergele, Gogledd Cymru. Mae ei waith yn deillio o brofiad bywyd — gan fyw gyda phalsy yr ymennydd, nam ar y golwg, ac anabledd dysgu — ac yn ei drawsnewid yn farddoniaeth onest ac ystyrus.
O wrthsefyll disgwyliadau cynnar am symudedd i feithrin hyder mewn addysg a bywyd cymunedol, mae Mark wedi llunio llwybr ei hun yn hytrach na chytuno â rhagdybiaethau cymdeithasol. I ef, mae barddoniaeth yn gyfuniad o loches a gweledigaeth: lloches i fynegi anghyfiawnder, gweledigaeth i ddathlu cysylltiad, a ffordd i archwilio anabledd gyda gwirionedd a pharch.
Er iddo gyfarfod ysgrifennu creadigol yn yr ysgol, ailgynnwyd ei brwdfrydedd diolch i’w Gig Buddy a’i ffrind, Alan Whitfield, bardd ac artist parchus a wnaeth ei helpu i adbron ei lais.
🔗 Gwefan Alan
Mae cerddi Mark — fel Life Sentence, Leading Lights, 40 Minutes, a From Silence, We Turn — yn archwilio cynhwysiant, hunaniaeth, Cymru wledig a grym defnyddio’ch llais. Mae’n perfformio’n rheolaidd yng VoiceBox Wrecsam, noson geiriau llafar flaenllaw yng Nghymru.
🔗 Instagram VoiceBox
Trwy ysgrifennu a pherfformio, mae Mark yn siarad dros y rhai sy’n aml yn aros heb leisiau — gan brofi bod profiad byw ac anabledd yn haeddu lle canolog yng nghalonnau llenyddiaeth Cymru.
Image credit: Nick Roe