Rock as Gloss by Mark Goodwin Christopher Smart An anthology of poems by

An anthology of poems by members of Trinity College

is there a need for such a book

much less a ‘generation’: the poets included employ a wide range of styles

Dr Fulminare

delving into his music

Rock as Gloss by Mark Goodwin Christopher Smart An anthology of poems byDivided 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