Of this collection Scott Glassman at Rain Taxi stated that Goar's "clause-free declarative sentences are a perfect match for the edgy grade-school surrealism which guides us into emotional revelation.”[1] Jordan Davis, in his Constant Critic article, included it amongst his best texts of the year.
[2] Seoul Bus Poems[3] (2010), his first full-length collection, was published by Ken Edwards' Reality Street.
This collection was hailed as a "brilliant portrait of life in a foreign city"[4] and "a glorious example of sparse language and observations.
He's been invited to read his poetry at the SoundEye Festival[10] in Cork Ireland and at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
past simple, the journal he edits, has had poems featured in the anthology: Best of the Net 2007[11] and is currently in its 10th issue.