uncaged sea
Publisher: Waterloo Press
Published: 2008
Number of pages: 78
Copyright date: 2008
Description: As readers of his restlessly inventive poety know, John Goodby's distinctive intelligence asserts itself in unexpected, self-effacing ways - through other voices, formal games and in the case of 'uncaged sea' a faithful and yet mischievous immersion in another poet's words. What he produces by his close attention and responsiveness to the stray energies of language is an engaging, addictive performance, whether enacted in sound and spoken word on stage or in the imaginative 'translation' of that experience to print.  The version laid out on the page is a performance of another kind, with the same teasing/enticing effect of continuity and discountinuity in a carefully unstable balance - giving the reader space both to think and enjoy; a sense of joining in the game.