Rock as Gloss by Mark Goodwin Ugly Duckling Presse a monumental work of translation

a monumental work of translation and poetry that will force us to rethink our understanding of global modernism and the hemispheric avant-garde

‘Officer’ / ‘Zipped File’ details the breakdown in communication between employee and employer

From brief lyrics that examine a mixtape or a plectrum to larger meditations on the connections between the life of Robert Frost and a trip to the supermarket in the snow

offers its readers a way ‘to know – & still to resist a last despair’

Mervyn Morris was born in Jamaica in 1937 and studied at the University College of the West Indies and St Edmund Hall

Rock as Gloss by Mark Goodwin Ugly Duckling Presse a monumental work of translationDivided 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