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Mark Goodwin

@poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social
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poet . sound artist . fiction maker . re- thinker . speaks and writes . in various ways . walker . balancer . stroller . climber ...

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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
In this, my second post of August, I celebrate the good things that have happened over & around our house this summer @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...
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Swift Diaries
Hope is the thing with feathers
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In this, my first post of August I write about the beginnings and ends of swift season and the time in between. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...
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Swift Diaries
Time is what it is
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
My first Swift Diary for over a month, the first one posted in July. cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar... @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com
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Swift Diaries
What is left behind
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
. And every now, and every again, abrupt as lightening, the living ground’s sound punctures our map. . 'At' - out with Shearsman Books www.shearsman.com/store/Mark-G...
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
In my first post in June, I write about an encounter with a lot of swifts early on a Tuesday morning. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com open.substack.com/pub/cwjonesc...
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Swift Diaries
A Tuesday in early June
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
In my penultimate Swift Diary from May, I discuss prison time and swifts. @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @daveswann.bsky.social cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...
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Swift Diaries
Prison Time and Swift Trails
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
In this week’s Swift Diaries post I reflect on empty May skies. open.substack.com/pub/cwjonesc... @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social
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Swift Diaries
Cold May Skies
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/cwjonesc... In this, the second post of the year, I reflect on the swift bricks that have packed in and around our house’s dirty face. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social
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Swift Diaries
The Bricky Air
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Swifts shape a fly-by, their high, riotous piercings, and one year’s shot past. My first Swift Diary of the year. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...
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Swift Diaries
Where are you swifts?
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
. a weigher when weighing can only sway and keep balance a weigher can never 'know' a whole ab solute weight of a world for the depth of the world is all ways weight(')s shif ting .
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
. weight can be the anch or dropped for my becoming down through my be coming just as the waves of time break as they rise .
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
In the latest Two-Way Poetry podcast I talk to Meg Gripton-Cooper about Anne Carson’s ‘Short Talk on Hedonism’ & her own poem ‘Excavating the House of Love’ @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/meg-gripto...
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Meg Gripton-Cooper on Anne Carson's poem 'Short Talk on Hedonism' and her own poem 'Excavating the House of Love' | The Two-Way Poetry Podcast
In this episode, I talk to Meg Gripton-Cooper about Anne Carson's prose-poem 'Short Talk on Hedonism' and her own poem 'Excavating the House of Love.' Meg reflects on how she came to encounter Anne Ca...
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
. a weigher when weighing can only sway and keep balance a weigher can never 'know' a whole ab solute weight of a world for the depth of the world is all ways weight(')s shif ting .
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
. weight can be the anch or dropped for my becoming down through my be coming just as the waves of time break as they rise .
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
. 'Else' is the only word I can come UP with to re -PLACE Newton's word 'gravity'. #phenomenology #weight #poetics from Five Fold's Load, published by Stride Magazine blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2...
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
@concordmoose.bsky.social Would it be going too far to say that this is actually beautiful?! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
@concordmoose.bsky.social Would it be going too far to say that this is actually beautiful?! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Philosophy #FAQ 
Ontology: what the fuck?
Causality: why the fuck?
Epistemology: how the why the fuck?
Phenomenology: the fuck.
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@markspray.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @tearsinthefence.bsky.social @cwjoneschris.bsky.social @concordmoose.bsky.social @susiecampbell.bsky.social @helenmort.bsky.social @bourbonandwolfe.bsky.social @jodacombe.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/poet...
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
. 'Else' is the only word I can come UP with to re -PLACE Newton's word 'gravity'. #phenomenology #weight #poetics from Five Fold's Load, published by Stride Magazine blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2...
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
. from within from within this whole world boxed there rises up momentarily a tiny noise . from VASKO POPA'S TEARDROP just published by @internationaltimes.bsky.social internationaltimes.it/vasko-popas-...
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Vasko Popa’s Teardrop | IT
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
. from within from within this whole world boxed there rises up momentarily a tiny noise . from VASKO POPA'S TEARDROP just published by @internationaltimes.bsky.social internationaltimes.it/vasko-popas-...
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
. december's end when lit snow lays no self over the slow ly growing crop the hedge casts shadow across 'home barn' field ... . from: At – out with Shearsman Books www.shearsman.com/store/Mark-G...
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
. as she climbs above me I am framed by ridge & arête in a niche at my back vertical ground (landedge) horizontally deep & opaque in front of me a stupendous drop of sea's horizontal terror-clear-calm . At - out with Shearsman Books www.shearsman.com/store/Mark-G...
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
. " to imagine an existence is one thing, to be imagined into existence is beyond things " – Guy Noyd #cybernetics #poetics #phenomenology markgoodwin-poet-sound-artist.bandcamp.com/track/ai
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AI, by Mark Goodwin - poet-sound-artist
from the album aoueiai
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@jodacombe.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/poet...
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
If you haven't heard of Poets for the Planet until now please take a look at our website for more information about who we are and what we do. Our artwork was created by the wonderful Henny Beaumont. #poetrysky #nationalpoetryday poetsfortheplanet.org.uk
Blue and white watercolour painting with Poets for the Planet in large letters painted across the centre
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. 

And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
A final August post on the swifts we share a house with @drjomaher.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social
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Swift Diaries
O for a beaker full of the warm South (John Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale')
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Jason Bentsman @jasonbentsman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
📷 #preview of #film #photos via negative converter {note: these #thumbnails are tinted / dimmer / cropped / lower res than the actual photos will be} #photography #artshare #fotografia #filmsky #artsky #photosky #booksky #moviesky #laphotographie #filmisnotdead #analog #filmphotography #35mm #hi
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
A mid-July post on the swifts we share a house with. @drjomaher.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social
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Swift Diaries
Northern Climbs
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
. " to imagine an existence is one thing, to be imagined into existence is beyond things " – Guy Noyd #cybernetics #poetics #phenomenology markgoodwin-poet-sound-artist.bandcamp.com/track/ai
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AI, by Mark Goodwin - poet-sound-artist
from the album aoueiai
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It’s Swift Awareness Week. Here’s my flag waving in the Bluesky breeze. @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
A poem about swifts in high summer
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
A mid-June post on the swifts we share our house with @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...
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Swift Diaries
Looking Up
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cturnbull.bsky.social @cturnbull.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
happened upon
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cturnbull.bsky.social @cturnbull.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
maybe I will approach bluesky as if a path I might return to once a week or so -- though path and calendar are contrary concepts. [watersnake, Limerick wetland]
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
A new leisurely June post on the swifts we share our house with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social
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Swift Diaries
Second Wave
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
My first June post on the swifts we share our house with @drjomaher.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social
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Swift Diaries
Vanishing Act
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A fourth post on the swifts we share our house with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...
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Swift Diaries
Early May Entries
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
A final May post on the swifts we share our house with @drjomaher.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social
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Swift Diaries
Holding Patterns
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
. for us to stand up – so as to stand out as a figure against a back ground – re quires a body forged by ground pull that can feel through groundpull and so stand up against the ground’s pull … but also stand with that pull . so our habits weigh us
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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Swifts shape a fly-by, their high, riotous piercings, and one year’s shot past. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @joellanos.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
. all the world’s places & the bodies of all other people & other creatures, all the hands, feet, paws, wings, fins, tentacles & antennae ... & corners & edges & st ones & tr ees & rain ... & all the eyes! ... well, what an affective nest of percept ual in tersubj ectivity that is!
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Laura Kerr @sedserio.com · 28/03/2025
Memory Bent
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
@komarine.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/robg...
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
. for us to stand up – so as to stand out as a figure against a back ground – re quires a body forged by ground pull that can feel through groundpull and so stand up against the ground’s pull … but also stand with that pull . so our habits weigh us
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/poet...
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