@ 8 Oaks, Loughborough University Campus

This track was originally improvised in the moment in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, England. It has since had some editing, and a small amount of digital production.

It was recorded using an Edirol R-09HR field recorder.

The players are: 

poet Kerry Featherstone
poet Mark Goodwin
artist & art therapist Elaine Miller

Bradgate Oak Home

Recorded at The Brand, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England.

The poetry was written on location - each poet then took turns to read fragments. There has been some editing - and unfortunately some of the poetry has been lost due to extraneous noise (but not much).

The location includes a pool below a crag of Swithland slate, once quarried, now often played upon by rockclimbers. The crag is in a private 'garden' owned by the Martin family.

A list of the poet-players will be included here, shortly.

Slate & Dark Water, The Brand

This was improvised on location in the moment in Bradgate Park, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England. The track was later edited, and has had a wee bit of digital production.

The players are:

poet Kerry Featherstone

poet Mark Goodwin

artist & art therapist Elaine Miller

Tyburn Grove, Bradgate

This was recorded on location on top of a bird-hide in Watermead Country Park, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, June 2011.

There has been some mixing and digital audio production.

The poem is part of my chapbook collection Layers of Un, published by Shearsman Books. http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2012/goodwinLoU.html

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

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. 

To see Helen’s visual work go here: http://www.helensaunders.co.uk/gallery.html

The players: artist Helen Saunders, artist Elaine Miller, poet Matt Merritt, poet Pam Thompson, poet Mark Goodwin.

The track consists words dug out in the moment, along with ambient background sounds recorded in The Cube (no sounds were generated digitally). There has been minor editing of the voices and major digital production, including time-stretching of said ambient sounds. 




A Constructed Cube Round

This track, recorded in August 2011, on location in Watermead Park, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, consists spoken fragments from text that was written on location half an hour or so previously.

There has been minor editing of the voices.

Poets: Steve Carroll, Mark Goodwin

Legend has that King Lear was buried in a cavern beneath the River Soar, just north of Leicester.

Lear's Entropy, Watermead, August 2011

This was recorded in Loughborough Library, in October 2011. It is the result of an improvised collaborative workshop combining Loughborough's nearby Queen's Park with the Library's interior.

There has been minimal editing, and some digital production - particularly the paper-crunch background!

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Evaluation of Mark Goodwin's Leicestershire Landscapes poetry residency. 

Leicestershire Landscape Poetry Residency, Evaluation

Here are audio tracks 
to do with poet Mark Goodwin's 
residing in Leicestershire's landscapes.

This residency was part 
of Writing East Midlands' 'Write Here' 
region-wide residency programme. 
It was also supported 
by Loughborough University.

The residency ran 
from May to October 2011.

Running on from this project:
Mark Goodwin is now
landscape poet in residence
at Loughborough University.

Mark Scape Goodwin