Rock as Gloss by Mark Goodwin Ugly Duckling Presse will stand between him and

will stand between him and a lightning bolt

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

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

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

flights show up on the radar and technology keeps track of desire

Rock as Gloss by Mark Goodwin Ugly Duckling Presse will stand between him andDivided 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