The Night Before Snow

The Night Before Snow"Jude Goodwin uses the personal to translate the universal. There is a little something of Jude in everyone of her poems as well as large swathes of the epic of life; the kind of thing that takes you from the simple to the grand in less than fifty lines." Carmen is a Cat, Blog. "The imagery throughout is melancholy and powerful as if each vision is there to haunt the reader." Arlene Ang "Wonderfully textured imagery, splendid sounds and subtle

"Jude Goodwin uses the personal to translate the universal. There is a little something of Jude in everyone of her poems as well as large swathes of the epic of life; the kind of thing that takes you from the simple to the grand in less than fifty lines."
- Carmen is a Cat, Blog.

"The imagery throughout is melancholy and powerful - as if each vision is there to haunt the reader."
- Arlene Ang

"Wonderfully textured imagery, splendid sounds and subtle treatment."
- Sachi Nag, poetry judge, Crescent Moon Journal

"I love the plain-spoken, conversational tone..... and how quickly it moves from the mundane to the extraordinary."
- Sylvia Symons, poetry judge, RCLAS 2018 Write On!

Jude Goodwin is an emergent Canadian poet whose poems have been published in journals and anthologies both in North America and overseas. This is Goodwin's first book of poetry. She lives in BC, Canada and can be found on the web at judegoodwin.com