Mark Laurent

Mark Laurent is a professional musician, poet/writer, and Christian communicator. He’s recorded many albums over more than 30 years, and worked as a recording producer. Since the early 1980s he has used music & poetry extensively for entertainment, social comment, and for Christian outreach and in facilitating worship, mostly in New Zealand but also overseas. Mark has previously published 3 collections of poetry and an illustrated children’s storybook. He writes magazine articles and reviews from time to time. Now and then he can be seen busking on Queen Street; “It’s good to keep in touch with life where it happens – with people where they are.” He lives with wife and fellow musician Brenda Liddiard in a 20th floor, high-rise apartment in central Auckland.