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In his new collection Marc Woodward writes of time spent in Italy, India and elsewhere, as well as drawing from the rural environment of his home in Devon, England. These are beautifully crafted, melodic poems which lightly carry their intrinsic darkness. Whilst there are poems about cancer, Covid and loss, these are balanced by poems about love and nature, and often the author's sense of humour shines through, even if at times it's just a glimmer through the back door of a morgue!

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'In these searching, songful poems, Marc Woodward reflects on the ricketiness of life; of the body, and of the certainty of earthworms. His imagery elevates the natural world to its rightful place. Birds, sky and trees glimmer like new-found things while his pragmatism puts on its boots, picks up its keys and looks you straight in the eye.' Helen Ivory, 'The Anatomical Venus' (Bloodaxe), editor of Ink, Sweat & Tears. Marc Woodward's poetry 'links the personal and the countryside by providing both background and emotional intensity. Despite his non-urban base he has a wide range of subjects in his work going from the English countryside to Italy, Switzerland, the Ganges, and many places elsewhere. To read his poetry is to go from images to ideas to images seamlessly.' Patricia Oxley, founder and editor of Acumen Literary Journal. Of the author's previous work: 'Beautifully crafted poems... that sing in the dark of darkness.' Canto 'Like John Burnside's poetry, Woodward writes gently and concentratedly about things vanishing and uncertain.' The Blue Nib

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Marc Woodward is the author of Shaking the Persimmon Tree, Sea Crow Press, 2022 and co-author with Andy Brown of Grace Notes And Other Poems, Sea crow press 2023. Although a New Yorker by birth, Woodward has been a lifelong resident of rural England. His writing reflects his groundings in the remote West Country, often with a dark undercurrent -- and a degree of wry humour. He has been widely published in journals, anthologies and online. He was writer-in-residence at The Wellstone Center in Santa Cruz, California, and in 2018 he was shortlisted for the 2018 Bridport Prize. He won the 2019 Keats' Footsteps Prize and was commended for the 2020 Acumen Poetry Prize and the 2020 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. His previous collections include A Fright of Jays (Maquette Press 2015), Hide Songs (Green Bottle Press 2018), and The Tin Lodes, written in collaboration with well-known poet and English professor Andy Brown, (Indigo Dreams 2020). In addition to writing, he is also an accomplished musician who has recorded, performed, and taught internationally. He was recently diagnosed with mild early-onset Parkinson's Disease and this is touched upon in a number of his newer poems.

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