Education and writing
Marc Latham graduated from the University of Leeds in 2005.
A BA in History, and MA and PhD in Communications Studies provided a sound knowledge of a wide range of disciplines, facts and theories which help to analyse, interpret and describe world events. The final thesis focused on the relationship between journalists and the military during conflicts involving their country. Research methods included a comprehensive content analysis of British and American newspapers, and interviews with journalists. At the end of the course Marc was described as a world expert on his specialist subject.
After graduating he branched out into creative writing: inventing the folding mirror poetry form, and writing a travel book based on world travels that encompassed all the populated continents during the 1980s and 1990s.
Marc is now hoping to work on documents, articles and books that utilise all his skills, experiences and learning.
Copyright 2008 © Marc Latham
Travel and Leisure
Leaving home at 21, young Latham hitch-hiked and slept rough around Europe and the Middle East during 1987-88, working in Greece and Israel along the way.
He then spent three years in Australia and the Far East, working in Oz, Hong Kong and Taiwan, before travelling back to Eastern Europe on the trans-Siberian.
Mid-20s Latham was home for a couple of years before spending a year travelling in the Americas during 1993 and 1994.
In 1998 he spent two months travelling in Kenya and Uganda.
After travelling, a desire for new challenges led him to run marathons in Edinburgh (2004) and Tromso (2007), and several half-marathons and 10km races in Leeds.
Influences on the GreenyGrey
The greenygrey concept developed in the void between the known and the unknown: the conscious and the unconscious; which can themselves perhaps be represented by green and grey.
While divine inspiration might have inspired the unconscious, rewinding the conscious for possible influences brings to the fore green legends; mythical dogs and shapeshifters from British and world mythology; Churchill’s bulldog image; rock n' roll legends; and Bill Bryson’s book title 'Tales from a Small Island.'
