Mark Pirie (born 30 April 1974) is a New Zealand poet, writer, literary critic, anthologist, publisher, and editor.
He is best known for his Generation X New Zealand anthology The NeXt Wave, which included an 8,000-word introduction (1998),[1] the literary journals JAAM (Just Another Art Movement) and broadsheet, a book cover photo series of tributes to famous rock albums,[2] and the small press HeadworX Publishers in Wellington, New Zealand.
His thesis was on the New Zealand poet and editor Louis Johnson, a writer who shares similarities with Pirie's work.
[4] The main influences on his literary development were listening to popular music, blues and jazz at an early age.
[5] Pirie's own published works include numerous collections or anthologies of poetry (one of them being a hand-made book The Bet: Poems in Memory of Jim Morrison - American Poet) and a novel in verse, TOM (2009).