Back of a Vast - Softcover

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Mark Goodwin is a balancer, walker, climber, and stroller who speaks and writes in various ways in various places - on paper, on-line, blended with photos, in film-poems, to live audience, or through mixing his voice with field-recordings & soundscapes ... and often through collaboration with other artists. He is also a ground-aslanter, his work being included in Shearsman Books' ground-tilting anthology 'The Ground Aslant - An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry' (2011). To date (June 2017), Mark has published a number of full-length poetry collections and several chapbooks with various English poetry houses. He continues to explore on foot or with feet-&-hands English, Welsh, Scottish mountains, urban-rimlands, crags, coastlands, individual trees of various species, riverbanks, derelict buildings, lakeshores, woodlands, various fence-rails, suspended-narrow-ways and ... moors ...Mark was born in 1969, and grew up on a farm in South Leicestershire. For the past twenty years or so he has lived on a narrow-boat, just off the river Soar, a little to the north of Leicester.