Books by Mark Goodwin

Mark has an unusual history. After losing his hearing as an eighteen-month-old infant, the next six years were silent as he honed his way of watching.

"In House At Out, Mark Goodwin steps into a new topography: a world that is a 'wild's inf i nite b its' approached through the gaps and hollows in the word. The holes are apertures as we zoom into language, crack open word hordes and find worlds of association." -Simon Perril

One of five chapbooks published by Shearsman in the summer of 2012, Layers of Un marks another stage in the development of Mark Goodwin's radical landscape poetry.

Rescaling the State provides a theoretically-informed and empirically-rich account of the process of devolution undertaken in the UK since 1997, focusing in particular on the devolution of economic governance. -- .

"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." (Tim Allen)

A collection of Leicestershire poet, Mark Goodwin.