Leicestershire Landscape

Leicestershire Landscapes Residency Evaluation

mark goodwin . gone ground — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:11:30 +0000

The final evaluation of Writing East Midlands Write Here Leicestershire Landscape residency can be heard here:

Leicestershire Landscape Poetry Residency, Evaluation by Mark Scape Goodwin

Thank you very much Natalie and Kerry for such a vital contribution to this evaluation.

Thank you very very very much to all you scapeshoppers – the work on this blog, and the recordings on SoundCloud are filled with your voices.

The residency continues, transmogrified as ‘Poetics of A Campus’, embedded into and funded by Loughborough University.

Live long in landscapes and wander!

Mark

Log-in Cancel – last Write Here Scapeshop

mark goodwin . gone ground — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:12:31 +0000

… flux mix of Loughborough Library interior with exterior Queen’s Park …

Log-in Cancel by Mark Scape Goodwin

Slate-The Brand

pmcbp1 — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:34:17 +0000

Palm Tree Helpdesk Tragedy

kerryfeatherstone — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:47:38 +0000

The haircut palms regret
a long winter of dredlocks.
“If faulty please ring helpdesk 222121.”
But don’t ask to replace the reggae
of trees that saw a white Christmas
when every little thing got burned.
The harder they winters come…

The helpdesk never answered
(there’s something jammin’ on the one).

Lear’s Entropy, Watermead, August 2011

mark goodwin . gone ground — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:37:59 +0000

Poets Steve Carroll & Mark Goodwin dig around
in Watermead Park for Lear & some

sense of August England …

To listen in on their diggings, go here:

Lear’s Entropy, Watermead, August 2011 by Mark Scape Goodwin

A Constructed Cube Round

mark goodwin . gone ground — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:55:55 +0000

On the 26th May 2011 a team of artists and poets entered
The Cube in The Phoenix Square in Leicester in England.
The team dug out words in response to Helen Saunder’s
constructed land & city scapes.

The produce can be listened to here:

http://soundcloud.com/mark-scape-goodwin/a-constructed-cube-round

Sun-Fall & Tools, a Watermead Park, a Charnwood

mark goodwin . gone ground — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:30:01 +0000

Hlo Happy July-End! If you have eleven minutes and twenty-five seconds and a pair of good ear or headphones the opportunity to slip between the contours of consciousness in a Leicestershire landscape awaits you here: http://soundcloud.com/mark-scape-goodwin/sun-fall-tools-a-watermead-1

Kind regards, m

Rhododendrons

mattm100 — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:36:40 +0000

Each purple supernova trails a plume
of bees, places you beyond the pale,
beyond the many native shades
of brown and green.
But you make us welcome.
As children, you served us as more
than mere shelter. Spacious palace,
trackless forest, dank cavern,
and everything in between.
A price on your head now,
there’s no disguising your otherness,
no hiding the bright pilot light
of your will to wander, put out feelers,
then hang on like dear life.

A path

mattm100 — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:51:33 +0000

paved with slate
and a gardener’s good intentions.
Plantings allowed
to shift for themselves,
a gradual giving way to broadleaf
and the forest’s understorey.

A wall
green with centuries of rain,
and two men climb the crevice
between sheer faces, a few feet
from where the trees make it look easy.

A cathedral of birdsong.
A grey wagtail
hangs his candle
from the highest buttress.

Beech

jaynestanton — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:17:40 +0000

rooted in placental
Mother Earth
her trunk umbilical
branches

buoyancy for nest-
lings lulled by
open-air even-
song’s pull of sleep