Rock as Gloss by Mark Goodwin Elsa Cross whose old names emerge like

whose old names emerge like neon signposts from the dark: Red Marsh

partly inspired by the two rivers that meet in his adopted home city of York: the Ouse and Foss

Julian Flanagan passed away on 29 August 2018

Rodney Pybus

Rock as Gloss by Mark Goodwin Elsa Cross whose old names emerge likeDivided into four compasses, Mark Goodwins sixth full length collection offers a variety of approaches to the rock in hand (whether gritstone or slate), or the fell under foot (whether on or off the map), and also enacts a dialogue with the culture and literature of climbing and fell walking, speaking to (and through) Menlove Edwards, Ted Hughes, Coleridge and others. The poems and fictions of Rock as Gloss navigate imaginary and actual journeys