Mark Goodwin

Images manipulated by Mark Goodwin from original photos by Nikki Clayton.


Mark Goodwin is a poet-sound-artist who speaks and writes in various ways. He has been making poetry for over three decades, and has published six full-length books & seven chapbooks with various poetry houses. His poetry was included in The Ground Aslant – An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry, edited by Harriet Tarlo (Shearsman Books 2011) & The Footing edited by Brian Lewis (Longbarrow Press 2013). Both his books with Longbarrow  – Steps (2014) & Rock as Gloss (2018) – were category finalists in the Banff Mountain Book Competition. Due out: in 2020, a full-length book called At with Shearsman, a chapbook called Of Gone Fox with The Hedgehog Poetry Press, and in early 2021, a chapbook called Erodes On Air with American publisher Middle Creek. Mark lives on a boat in Leicestershire. He tweets poems from @kramawoodgin, and his sound-enhanced poetry is at: markgoodwin-poet-sound-artist.bandcamp.com