kingf isher just by Mark Goodwin

  

 

 

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, to live audience, or through mixing his voice with field-recordings & soundscapes. Mark has published five full-length poetry collections & five chapbooks with Leafe Press’s Open House Editions, Longbarrow Press, Knives Forks & Spoons Press, Small Minded Books, Nine Arches Press, & Shearsman Books. Mark’s collection Steps (Longbarrow 2014) was a category finalist in the 2015 Banff Mountain Book Competition. His latest chapbook with Shearsman is All Space Away and In (June 2017). Another full-length collection, called Rock as Gloss, which focuses on climbing and mountain navigation, is forthcoming with Longbarrow Press. Mark lives on a boat in Leicestershire.

 

 

 

 

 

  

kingf       isher just 

 

           this moment hov

 

ered and tapped at

our boat’s window

 

                                        glass as he flew

off his call ribb

                         oned

 

like swee                          t high

 

              pitched light

 

 

Mark Goodwin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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