Mark Goodwin reads from Shod

January 25, 2010
7:00 PM	to	9:00 PM

Mark Goodwin will be reading from Shod, his version of The Gospel, which will be published by Nine Arches Press in August.

This gig is organised by Nine Arches. It is on Monday 25th January, 7.30 pm, ENTRY IS FREE, it is at:

Looking Glass
68-70 Braunstone Gate
LE3 5LG

There will also be two other poets reading:

Tony Williams: Sheffield poet, his debut collection The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street (Salt) has been highly acclaimed nationally.
“…from all our cultural loam and junk, Williams has made real magic.” – The Guardian

Matt Nunn: Birmingham poet, editor and co-founder of Nine Arches, his latest collection Sounds In The Grass is out now.

Here’s some blurb about Shod, from Loughborough’s own inimitable Deborah Tyler-Bennett:

‘Raw, distinctly voiced, and edgy, Shod is a Twenty-First-Century allegory that doesn’t disappoint. Sydney Realer, the Shoe Messiah, and the apocalyptic cast of characters he encounters, stays with the imagination long after the poem has been read. With echoes of popular song, religious tracts, and consumer culture, Shod has overtones of the dissenting art of William Blake. But this is Blakean work which is very much for today, as Sydney moves between the blank-walled supermarket and broken-rural hinterland of a town’s outskirts. This is disturbing, savage, and memorable poetry, with something uncompromisingly human at its heart.’

May your soles last long, and Shod bless you!