Back of a Vast - Softcover

Goodwin, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848611196 ISBN 13: 9781848611191

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2010

Synopsis

"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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About the Author

Mark Goodwin was born in 1969, spent his childhood on a farm in Leicestershire, and now lives on a narrow-boat on the river Soar, just north of Leicester. He works as a community poet with a wide range of people, including pupils and teachers in schools and colleges, other writers and artists, museum services, and with people who use mental-health services. Mark has been learning to write poetry since he was 16, and during that time has developed a love of playing with language. Both of his Shearsman collections reflect his deep interest in what has been termed 'landscape'-whether that be on a run-down housing estate on the rim of Leicester, in an ancient stone circle on the edge of the Hebrides, or in amongst the intricacies of Cornish coastland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848611196
• ISBN 13: 9781848611191
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90