NEW BOOK! The Tin Lodes - due for publication in 2020

I'm delighted to announce that Indigo Dreams Press (IDP) will be publishing a new full collection 'The Tin Lodes' in 2020.

This is a book written in collaboration with my good friend Andy Brown. Andy is an excellent and well known poet, the author of around 14 collections (soon to be fifteen!), and professor of Creative Writing at Exeter University.

One of Andy's collections is Goose Music (Salt 2011) written as a collaboration with renowned poet John Burnside and we have collaborated in a similar manner. That is to say each of us would write a poem, send it to the other, critique and discuss it, and then write a response.
Although each poem is fundamentally the work of one or other of us they are published anonymously - the purpose being not so much to create a guessing game of 'who wrote that one?' but to ensure the book has a smooth flow and sense of cohesion.

The collection explores the ecology, archaeology and human presence in the English West Country where we both live. However the focus then expands out to put the human element inside a global context.

We're both really looking forward to the book coming out and are excited about doing readings from it - wherever we're invited!

And of course, we're excited to be working with Indigo Dreams who are a leading publisher of poetry with a stable of fine writers. Our thanks go out to Ronnie and Dawn at IDP for choosing to publish The Tin Lodes.

Watch this space for announcements regarding release date - but in the meantime if you're a literary festival or poetry association and would like to book us for a reading or talk in the second half of 2020 please contact me directly at  marcowoodward@gmail.com