Mark Goodwin: Back of A Vast
Published 15 August 2010 / available for sale from mid-July 2010
Paperback, 90pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848611191
"These poems disclose a poet's rich relationship to the natural world by stripping away, by letting a raw objectivist lyric scrape off any rhetorical surface to discover the details beneath. This happens in almost every line, every phrase—so much so that finally his individual words seem to do it by themselves. The result is that /nature/ here ticks and clicks as though it were trying to find a halfway-house language between itself and the writer. Illusion of course, the trick of poetry, and Mark Goodwin is the magician." —Tim Allen
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