Mark Goodwin

because

his tongue
had always

been

a coiled oak
~shaving  

between
his jaws

Mark Goodwin speaks and writes in various ways. He is also a walker, balancer, stroller, climber, and experiencer of place. Mark has published with various poetry houses, including Longbarrow Press & Shearsman Books. His latest chapbook – a compressed mountain travelogue called Erodes On Air – is published in North America by Middle Creek. His next full-length collection – At – is forthcoming from Shearsman. Mark lives with his partner on a narrowboat just north of Leicester.