Dr Gavin Goodwin

BA and MA (Cardiff) PhD (Surrey)

Module Coordinator

• WL11420 - Literature And The Sea
• WR32620 - Writing Music
• WRM6420 - Modes in Contemporary Poetry

Lecturer

• WL11420 - Literature And The Sea
• WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
• WR11020 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
• WR30040 - The Writing Project
• EN20120 - Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
• EN22920 - Literature since the '60s
• EN10520 - Contemporary Writing
• WR32120 - Writing and Place
• WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
• WRM6140 - Writer as Practitioner 1
• WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry

Tutor

• WR20620 - Writing Selves
• WR30040 - The Writing Project
• WR32620 - Writing Music

Coordinator

• WL11420 - Literature And The Sea
• WR32620 - Writing Music
• WRM6420 - Modes in Contemporary Poetry

Moderator

• WR11120 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
• EN11320 - Critical Practice
• WR31220 - Poetry for today

Gavin teaches creative writing, and twentieth century and contemporary literature.

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.