Grace Notes - Paperback

by Andy Brown (Author), Marc Woodward (Author)

The poetry in 'Grace Notes' echoes instruments and moves from the intimacy of a pub singalong or an epiphany in a guitar shop, to virtuosic frenzy or the majesty of a symphony. Grace Notes is endlessly inventive, clever and heartfelt and so friendly and inviting you hardly notice it playing your heartstrings or lighting up your brain like a mixing desk, and before you know it you're part of its score.

Author Biography

Andy Brown, author of The Midnight Mechanic and co-author with Marc Woodward of Grace Notes And Other Poems (Sea Crow Press) is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Exeter University and known widely as a distinguished poet and writing tutor. His many poetry books include Casket (Shearsman, 2019); Bloodlines (Worple, 2018); Exurbia (Worple, 2014); The Fool and the Physician (Salt, 2012); Goose Music (with John Burnside, Salt, 2008) and Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 (Salt, 2006). He co-edited A Body of Work: an anthology of poetry and medicine (Bloomsbury, 2016) and edited The Writing Occurs As Song: a Kelvin Corcoran Reader (Shearsman, 2015). His study of literary and artistic tree climbing and wellbeing, The Tree Climbing Cure, is published by Bloomsbury. He is a singer-songwriter and has recorded and gigged solo and with a number ofsubands.

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.