Mark Goodwin is a poet-sound-artist who speaks and writes in various ways. He is also a balancer, walker, climber, and stroller. Mark has been making poetry for over three decades, and has published six full-length books and eight chapbooks with various poetry houses, including Longbarrow Press, Leafe Press & Shearsman Books.
Some of Mark Goodwin’s Awards:
East Midlands Arts Writers’ Bursary 1996.
Eric Gregory Award 1998.
Nottingham Trent University M.A. Bursary, 2000.
M.A. in Writing (poetry & fiction), Nottingham Trent University, 2002.
Winner of the inaugural East Midlands Book Award 2010.
Awarded substantial Arts Council England Grant for the arts, to develop ‘sound-enhanced poetry’, 2013.
Category finalist in the Banff Mountain Book Competition, 2015.
Category finalist in the Banff Mountain Book Competition, 2019.
Publications
Else (Shearsman Books, 2008) Link: https://www.shearsman.com/store/Goodwin-Mark-c28271739
Distance a Sudden (Longbarrow Press 209) Link: http://longbarrowpress.com/current-publications/mark-goodwin/
Back of A Vast (Shearsman Books, 2010) Link: https://www.shearsman.com/store/Goodwin-Mark-c28271739
Shod, (Nine Arches Press, 2010) Link: http://fiveleavespublications.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/there-is-no-doubt-that-that-shod-by.html
All Are Lots (Small Minded Books, 2012) Link: not available
Layers of Un (Shearsman Books, 2012) Link: https://www.shearsman.com/store/Goodwin-Mark-c28271739
Clause in A Noise (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2013) Link: https://issuu.com/alecnewman/docs/clause_in_a_noise_by_mark_goodwin
Steps (Longbarrow Press, 2014) Link: http://markgoodwinsteps.wordpress.com/
Tones Fled All, with Julia Thornley (Leafe Press’s Open House Editions, 2015) Link: http://www.leafepress.com/catalog/goodwin/tones.html
House At Out (Shearsman Books, 2015) Link: https://www.shearsman.com/store/Goodwin-Mark-c28271739
All Space Away and In (Shearsman Books, 2017) Link: https://www.shearsman.com/store/Goodwin-Mark-c28271739
Rock as Gloss (Longbarrow Press, 2019) Link: https://markgoodwinrockasgloss.wordpress.com
Portland : a Triptych, with poets Tim Allen & Norman Jope (Knives Forks & Spoons Press, 2019) Link: https://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/product-page/portland-a-triptych-by-tim-allen-norman-jope-mark-goodwin
Lake-Skin As Eye (The Red Ceilings Press, 2019) Link: https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/lake-skin-as-eye-by-mark-goodwi
Moor, with artist Dominique Cameron (Fidra Fine Art, 2020)
Selected anthologies
Full of Star’s Dreaming, Peter Redgrove 1932-2003 ( Stride Publications, 2003)
Stanage, rock-climbing guidebook (The British Mountaineering Council, 2007)
Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh, manifestos and unmanifestos, edited by Rupert Loydell (Salt, 2009)
The Ground Aslant, Radical Landscape Poetry edited by Harriet Tarlo (Shearsman Books, 2010)
Llanberis Slate, rock-climbing guidebook (Ground Up, 2011)
Entanglements, New ecopoetry, edited by David Knowles and Sharon Blackie (Two Ravens Press, 2012)
The Footing, edited by Brian Lewis (Longbarrow Press, 2013)
West Cornwall, Bosigran and the North Coast, rock-climbing guidebook (The Climbers’ Club, 2016)
25, Celebrating 25 Years of NTU’s MA in Creative Writing, edited by David Belbin & Rory Waterman (Nottingham Trent University, 2019)
Forthcoming publications
Full-length book – At – forthcoming with Shearsman, 2020.
Chapbook – Erodes On Air – forthcoming from American publisher Middle Creek, 2021.
Further information
Twitter: @kramawoodgin
