Dr Gavin Goodwin

BA and MA (Cardiff) PhD (Surrey)

Module Coordinator

• AB1 Literature And The Sea (WL11420)
• AB2 Writing Music (WR32620)
• AB1 Writer as Scholar (WRM6320)
• AB2 Modes in Contemporary Poetry (WRM6420)

Lecturer

• AB1 Adventures with Poetry (WR22120)
• AB1 Beginning Creative Writing (WR11020)
• AB1 Independent Research Project (WL30140)
• AB2 Introduction to Poetry (WL10420)
• AB1 Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues (EN20120)
• AB1 Literature And The Sea (WL11420)
• AB1 Writer as Practitioner 1 (WRM6140)
• AB1 Writing and Place (WR32120)

Moderator

• AB2 Beginning Creative Writing Part 2 (WR11120)
• AB1 Critical Practice (EN11320)

Tutor

• AB2 Writing Poetry: Modes in Contemporary Poetry (WRM6420)
• AB2 Writing Selves (WR20620)

Gavin’s research interests include: creativity and mental health; twentieth and twenty-first century poetry (especially the poetry of the Objectivists and work informed by that tradition); literary representations of class and work; literature and music; the personal essay; and writing with an environmental/ecological focus.. Gavin’s poetry, criticism, and creative non-fiction have appeared in a range of magazines and journals. He is the author of Creativity and Anxiety: Making, Meaning, Experience (Palgrave, 2023), and two pamphlets of poetry, Estate Fragments (KFS, 2014) and Blue Rain (Cinnamon Press, 2018). Gavin is also co-director of Contempo, the Centre for Contemporary Poetry run collaboratively between five UK universities.