This can only be a good thing for poetry as Goodland is one of those rare writers whose mix of experimentation and play is usually as entertaining as it is thought-provoking. His early work Littoral (1996) was a description of a long walk along the South West coastline and combined his interest in geology with that of language - as an employee of Oxford University press, working on the O.E.D. his day job has an interesting relationship to his vocation as poet. A Spy in the House of Years (2001) represented each year of the last century via a 14 verse cut-up of material drawn from a wide range of sources relevant to the year in question. This was possibly a more severe project but a fascinating one nonetheless, mixing documentary 'evidence' with surreal jumps and chance juxtapositions. Capital (2006) was more of the same but in a less highly systematised form.