Brief biographical notes:
Born July 19th. 1938 in South East London. Educated at
St.Stephen's Primary School, Welling, Kent (1943--1949);
St.Joseph's Academy, Blackheath, London S.E.3. (1949--1954);
University of Essex, Colchester, Essex (1967--1970). Married
(to Margaret Valarie Murphy) with five children (Lloyd, Lisa [died 1996], Ben,
Bruno and Aram)and four grandchildren (Cato, Matilda, Florence and Edward).
Between leaving school in 1954 and going to the University of Essex in
1967 I had a variety of jobs, including Insurance Clerk, Builders'
Labourer, Packer, Assistant Transport Manager, and Continental
Telephonist. In 1959 I taught myself how to set type and to print,
and between then and 1964 I produced three issues of a magazine
(outburst) and a series of small books (by Pete Brown, Edward
Dorn, Anselm Hollo, Piero Heliczer and David Ball) under the imprint
of Matrix Press. In 1965, in partnership with the painter and
film-maker Barry Hall, I started the Goliard Press, working
there until 1967 when it was taken over by Jonathan Cape Ltd. Books
printed and published by the press included The Claim (Anselm
Hollo); In A Green Eye (the first book of poems by Elaine
Feinstein); Sky (a prose-poem by Ron Padgett); Sled Hill
Voices (poems by Aram Saroyan); The Baltimore Poems (by
Zoltan Farkas); The Emperor of the Animals (a play by Tom
Clark); West ( a series of poems by Charles Olson, and his
first book published in England); A Sight (a set of three
serigraph prints of a holograph poem by Robert Creeley, illustrated
by R.B. Kitai); and The Relation Ship (my first book of
poems). We also designed and printed books for other presses,
including work by Louis Zukofsky, Ted Hughes, Dom Moraes, Edward
Lucie-Smith and others for Turret Books and the first edition of
Basil Bunting's Briggflatts for Fulcrum Press. After the press
became Cape Goliard in 1967, and I left, several manuscripts I
had already accepted were published by the new entity, including
Olson's Maximus Poems; Paul Blackburn's In, On, Or About
the Premises; John Wiener's Nerves; and J.H.Prynne's
Kitchen Poems. I went on to the University of Essex where,
after studying Spanish for one year (including a term at the
University of Granada), and taking the first year of a B.A. in Latin
American Literature, I transferred to the Masters programme and in
1970 was awarded an M.A. in the Theory and Practice of Literary
Translation. Between 1970 and 1972 I visited the United States and
Canada several times on reading tours, and from the summer of 1972
until the autumn of 1977 I lived in the U.S.A (and, briefly, Mexico)
with my family. Since returning, I've lived from writing; from books, reading tours
(in Europe, Africa, Mexico, China and the USA -- including one of 30 readings in 6 weeks across the US and Canada),
and occasional teaching (see below). Since our daughter died, we have been bringing up
our grandson, Cato. After thirty years in Cambridge, we now live in Hove,
England.
Teaching, and related,
positions:
1969--1970 Poet in Residence, Department of
Literature, University of Essex, U.K.
1972--1973 Fiction Instructor, Bowling Green
State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA.
1973--1974 Resident Poet, Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1974--1975 Visiting Lecturer, University of
Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.
1977--1978 Poet in Residence, King's College,
Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K., and member of the English
Faculty.
1991 Visiting Lecturer, English Department, University
of Cape Town, South Africa, and Jagger Library Poet in Residence.
1996 Visiting Lecturer, English Department, University
of California, San Diego, USA.
One week teaching the University of New Hampshire Summer School
("Writing") at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK.
1997 One week as Resident Writer at New College of
California, San Francisco, California, USA. (March).
One week as Visiting Lecturer at Dartington College, Totnes,
Devon, UK. (April)
One week teaching the University of New Hampshire Summer School
("Writing") at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK. (August)
1998 One week teaching the University of New Hampshire
Summer School ("Writing") at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,
UK. (August)
Two weeks teaching at University of Cape Town and University of
the Transkei (South Africa) (September)
1999 Visiting Distinguished Writer, Columbia College,
Chicago USA.
2001 One week teaching a special advanced writing course at Miami University, Ohio, USA.
Awards, Fellowships, etc:
1969 Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize (then the U.K's major
poetry award) for The Relation Ship.
1970 Arts Council of Great Britain writers' bursary.
Invitations to two High Schools in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, to
read and to talk to students about their writing: the first "Poets in
Schools" there.
1971 (spring) Fellowship at YADDO, New York State, USA.
1972 Cholmondeley Award, UK.
Grant from the Committee on Poetry, NY, USA.
1974 Guest of the Hungarian P.E.N. Club for one month in
Budapest to work on translations with Gyula Kodolanyi.
1977 Arts Council of Great Britain writers' bursary.
1982 British Council "Cultural Exchange" bursary (the
first of its kind) to spend one month in Paris. The French poet
Claude Royet-Journoud spent one month in London.
1986 British Council invitation to Greece to give
readings in Athens and Thessalonika.
Invitation from the University of Venice "Ca'Foscari" for one week
to give readings and to talk with students of English Literature: the
first such invitation.
1988 Grant from the International Committee on Poetry,
NY, USA.
1990--91 (winter) First foreign poet resident at
the Centre International de PoËsie, Marseille, France.
(December - March).
1991 Jagger Library Poet in Residence, University of
Cape Town, South Africa: first European writer to visit/teach there
for 30 years.
1992 Invitation from the University of Trieste, Italy,
to give readings and to talk with students for three days.
Invitation from writers in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (who were not
members of the Writers' Union) to visit. Supported by the British
Council, who then asked me (as a sort of quid pro quo) to go down to
Macedonia (then internationally isolated) as they'd "asked for
someone" and no-one would go. I read at the main Library in Skopje
and met some great people.
1993 Invitation from the Italian Cultural Institute in
Prague to take part in a three-day International Conference on the
Arts.
1994 Invitation from the University of Las Palmas,
Tenerife, Canary Islands, to read and to take part in a four-day
International Conference on Language and Writing.
Markin Flanagan Distinguished Writer, Residency. University of Calgary,
Canada, during March.
1996 Invitation from the University of New Hampshire,
USA. to International Conference "Assembling Alternatives"
Invitation to visit two schools (High School equivalent) in
Venice, Italy, and talk to pupils about writing.
1999 One week residency at Porto dei Santi, Bologna,
Italy working with painter Giovanni D'Agostino. Presented with first
Poetry Skipper gold medal for Services to International Poetry.
2001
From June 9th:-- Artists'/poets' banners (part of Venice Biennale 2001) displayed in via Garibaldi.
My banner had one by Claude Royet-Journoud on the other side.
2002 Three day residency at SUNY Buffalo, USA.
Two-week residency at CIPM Marseille, including reading, exhibition of graphic
work and two-day invitation to four British poets of my choice to come to Marseille,
give readings, and talk about British Poetry.
Philip Whalen Memorial Grant.
2005 Spring. Five-week fellowship at the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy.
Summer. Guest of Honour at Tom Raworth Day at the University of
Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
2006 Winter. Week residency in Chicago (Audible Gallery; SAIC) to give classes
and performances with musician Peter Brötzmann.<
2007 Spring. Week residency in Marseille for translation project.
Spring: Week invitation to Miami University, Ohio, for the opening of a show of artworks by
Norma Cole, Marjorie Welish and myself.
Summer. Awarded the Antonio Delfini prize for lifetime achievment, Modena, Italy
2008 February/March. Fellowship at Macdowell Colony, NH, USA.
June. Awarded Stanford Calderwood Fellowship (2007-2008) by Macdowell, NH. USA.
2014 Awarded the N.C. Kaser-Lyrikpreis, Lana (Sud-Tirol), Italy
Publications:
Since the early 1960s my poetry and prose have been published in
English and in translation in journals and magazines from the United
Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, Denmark, Holland,
France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Chile, Argentina, Romania, Greece, Hungary,
Australia, Yugoslavia and China. Books of Selected Poems have been published
in Swedish, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian. Books in English include:
1966 The Relation Ship (poems). Illustrated by Barry
Hall. Goliard Press, London.
1968 Haiku (poems: with John Esam and Anselm Hollo).
Trigram Press, London.
1968 The Big Green Day (poems). Illustrated by Jim Dine.
Trigram Press, London.
1969 A Serial Biography (prose). Fulcrum Press, London.
1969 The Relation Ship (second edition : different
illustrations). Cape Goliard, London/Grossman Inc. NY.
1970 Lion Lion (poems : miscellaneous illustrations).
Trigram Press, London.
1971 Moving (poems). Illustrated by Joe Brainard. Cape
Goliard, London/Grossman Inc. NY.
1972 Tracking (poems/notebook). Cover by Fielding
Dawson. Doones Press, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA.
Pleasant Butter (poems). Cover by Charles Simonds. Blue Pig
Press, Paris/Northampton USA.
Betrayal (prose). Trigram Press, London.
1973 Act (poems). Illustrated by Barry Flanagan. Trigram
Press, London.
Back to Nature (poems). Cover by Pip Benveniste. Joe
DiMaggio, London, UK.
From the Hungarian ("translations") (with Val Raworth). 40
copies privately printed, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA.
An Interesting Picture of Ohio (irony). 40 copies privately
printed, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA.
1974 Ace (long poem). Illustrated by Barry Hall. Goliard
Press, London. (Apart from 35 copies, this edition was destroyed in a
freak flood).
Bolivia ñ another end of Ace (poem). Secret
Books, London, UK.
1975 Cloister (poems). Cover by Michael Myers. Blue Pig,
Northampton/Paris.
1976 Common Sense (poems). Illustrated by Michael Myers.
Zephyrus Image, San Francisco, USA.
The Mask (poems). Illustrated with masks found by Alastair
Johnston. Poltroon Press, Berkeley, USA.
1977 Logbook (prose). Illustrated by Frances Butler.
Poltroon Press, Berkeley, USA,
A Serial Biography (second edition). Turtle Island
Foundation, Berkeley, USA.
Ace (second edition : different illustrations). The
Figures, Berkeley, USA.
1978 Four Door Guide (poetry and prose). Cover and
illustration by the author. Street Editions, Cambridge, UK.
Sky Tails (poems). Lobby Press, Cambridge, UK.
1979 Nicht Wahr, Rosie? (poems). Poltroon Press,
Berkeley, USA.
1982 Writing (long poem). The Figures, Berkeley, USA.
1983 LËvre de Poche (poems). Cover by the author.
Bull City Press, Durham, N.C., USA.
1984 Heavy Light (poems). Cover by Lloyd Raworth. Actual
Size Press, London, UK.
Tottering State : Selected and New Poems 1963 to
1984. Cover by Eric Fischl. The Figures, Berkeley, USA.
1985 Tractor Parts (words/graphics : broadside).
Spectacular Diseases, Peterborough, UK.
1986 Lazy Left Hand (poems). Cover by Lloyd Raworth.
Actual Size Press, London, UK.
1987 Visible Shivers (poetry and prose). Cover by
Jean-Luc GuÈrin, illustrations by the author. O Books,
Oakland, USA.
1988 Tottering State (expanded edition: selected poems
1963 to 1987) Paladin Books, London, UK.
1989 Sentenced he gives a Shape (poems). Zasterle Press,
Tenerife, Spain.
1990 From Eternal Sections (poems). Hardpressed Poetry,
Dublin, Ireland.
1991 Catacoustics (long poem: illustrations by the
author). Street Editions, Cambridge, UK.
All Fours (poem). Cover by the author). Microbrigade,
London, UK.
1992 The Vein (poem). The Figures, Massachusetts, USA.
Blue Screen (poem). Equipage Press, Cambridge, UK.
1993 Eternal Sections (poems). Sun & Moon Press, Los
Angeles, USA.
1994 Survival (poems). Equipage Press, Cambridge, UK.
Emptily (poem). The Figures, Massachusetts, USA.
The Mosquito and the Moon(poem), Cambridge, UK.
1995 Silent Rows (poems). The Figures, Massachusetts,USA.
Muted Hawks (poem). Illustrations by Alastair Johnston.
Poltroon Press, Berkeley, USA.
Frames (poems: with Italian translation by Dario Villa).
Cover by Gianni Castagnoli. Illustration by Franco Beltrametti. Giona
Editions, Riva san Vitale, Switzerland.
1996 Clean & Well Lit (selected poems 1987 to
1995). Roof Books, NY, USA.
Firewall (poem: in book with works by Bill Griffith and Tom
Leonard). Etruscan Books, Devon, UK.
1997 Etruscan Reader V (extended version of the previous
volume, but including some older uncollected work)
2000 Tottering State (republication, with complete text of
Writing)(cover by Richard Tuttle) O Books, Berkeley, California, USA.
Meadow (new poems) PostApollo Press, Sausalito,
California, USA.
Landscaping the Future (new poems, bilingual: Italian
translations by John Gian and Rita degli Esposti) Porto dei Santi,
Bologna, Italy.
2001 Ace / Bolivia: another end of Ace (republication with original illustrations by Barry Hall) Edge Books, Washington, DC, USA.
2003 Collected Poems. Carcanet Press, UK.
2006 Caller. Edge Books, Washington, DC, USA. 2008 Let Baby Fall. Critical Documents, Providence, RI, USA. 2009 Earn Your Milk - Collected Prose. SALT Books, Cambridge, England. 2009 There Are Few People Who Put On Any Clothes (Starring It). Equipage, Cambridge, England. 2009 El Tiempo Se Volvio En Cuero. Sur+, Mexico City, Mexico. 2010 Windmills in Flames. Carcanet Press, U.K. 2011 Got On. ©_© Press, U.K. Incomprehensible Things. Privately Printed, U.K. 2012 Pleasant Butter. Republication Privately Printed, U.K. 2014 XIVLiners. Sancho Panza, Brighton, U.K. 2015 Structure From Motion. Edge Books, Washington D.C., USA As When: Selected Poems. Carcanet Books, UK
Anthologised in:
1969 Twentieth Century Love Poems, Hutchinson, London.
Holding Your Eight Hands, Doubleday, NY.
Children of Albion, Penguin Books, London.
1970 British Poetry Since 1945, Penguin Books, London
Poetry of the Dance, Corgi Books, London.
New English Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review.
1971 Penguin Modern Poets 19 (with John Ashbery and Lee
Harwood), Penguin Books, London.
23 Modern British Poets, Swallow Books, USA.
1977 The Film Addict's Archive, Elm Tree Books, London.
1978 English and American Surrealist Poetry, Penguin
Books, London.
1986 21 + 1 American Poets Today edited by Emmanuel Hocquard/and Claude Royet-Journoud,
Delta, Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier
1987 Thirty Years of the Poetry Book Society,
Hutchinson, London.
1988 Futures for English, Manchester University Press,
UK.
The New British Poetry, Paladin Books, London.
O One, O Press, Oakland, California.
1989 The Poetry Book Society Anthology, Hutchinson,
London.
1993 The Faber Book of Movie Verse, Faber & Faber,
UK.
1998 Poems for the Millennium (volume 2), Univ.of
California Press. California.
2001 Anthology of Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry, Oxford University Press, USA
and in Anthologies of British and/or American poetry published in
France, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Hungary and Romania
Translations include:
1969 (in) Con Cuba: An Anthology of Contemporary
Cuban Poetry, Cape Goliard, London.
1970 (in) The Penguin Book of South American Verse
(edited by Enrique Caracciolo). The Bolivian, Chilean,
Argentinian and Peruvian sections. Penguin Books, London.
1971 (in) Third World Political Documents (edited
by John Gerassi). Wiedenfeld and Nicholson, London. † 1972 (in) Arion, Budapest (poems translated from
the Hungarian in collaboration with Gyula Kodolanyi.
1986 What Day Is It, by Liliane Giraudon. Illustrated by
Kate van Houten. Womens' Study Workshop, Rosendale, NY. (Translated
from the French).
1988 (in) Coyote's Journal, Maine, USA.
Translations of Ballestrini and others, in collaboration with Franco
Beltrametti. (From the Italian).
1990 (in) Love Poetry by Women, edited by Wendy
Mulford, Virago Books, London. (From the Italian of Patrizia
Vicinelli).<
1993 Between the Eyelashes (poem sequence). From the
Italian of Dario Villa. Active in Airtime Press, Colchester, UK.
2006 The Tiger in the Mirror (poem sequence). From the
Italian of Rita degli Esposti. Coyote Books, Maine, USA.
Miscellaneous:
London Art Review for Das Kunstwerk, Baden, Germany, during
1964.
Script for short film A Plague on Both Your Houses,
directed by John Cowan, London, 1966.
Book reviews for Peace News, London, during 1967
(Gombrowitz, Dorn, Wm.Carlos Williams, etc.)
Guest Editor of Work 4, Detroit, USA, 1968, devoted to the
work of the German poet Rainer M. Gerhardt.
One of nine poets reading their work in a film titled
"Poet", directed by Pip Benveniste. "O" Films, London, 1969.
Selection of poems issued as a long-playing record Little Trace
Remains of Emmett Miller, by Stream Records, London, 1969.
Readings on television and radio including Late Night
Line-up (BBC TV); Word of Mouth (Border TV); The John
Peel Show (BBC Radio 1); The Living Poet (half-hour BBC
Radio 3); Albatross (half-hour France-Culture, Paris);
WMLT Chicago (one hour); and on various other stations in the
United States, Canada, Holland, France, Italy, Switzerland and
Sweden.
Many audio and video cassette recordings exist of readings during
the past thirty years in the United Kingdom, the United States,
Italy, France, Switzerland, and Sweden. There are also audio
cassettes/CDs of collaborations with musicians: with Steve Lacy in
Marseille, 1987; with Steve Nelson-Raney in Milwaukee, 1988, and
Chicago, 1989; with Esther Roth in Venice, 1996; with Nino Locatelli
in Locarno (Swiss Radio), 1997; and with JoÎlle LÈandre
in Lausanne, 2000. In 2005/2006 three CDs were issued: two by Optic Nerve and one
by the Poetry Archive (UK). In 2006 a CD of work with Peter Brötzmann was issued in Chicago, titled No Hard Feelings.
Editor and publisher of:
outburst (three issues 1961 — 1963) Before Your Very Eyes! (one issue 1964) Infolio (issues 1 ó 40, daily, 1986) (issues 41ó100, weekly, 1987)
Private Water (15 minute theatre piece), Theatre Maillol,
Strasbourg, 1993.
Contributing editor to DOC(K)S (Ajaccio, Corsica), PAGINAS
(Tenerife, Spain), Il Verri (Italy) and SHUFFLE BOIL (San Francisco, USA).
Cover illustrations for Critical Enquiry, Chicago;
Invariante, Milan; Poetry International, San Diego;
The Chicago Review;The Edinburgh Review; The Poetry Review and for books by Geoffrey Ward, Susan
Schultz, Randolph Healy, John Higgins, Tom Pickard, Fanny Howe, Peter Robinson, François / David Lespiau, Ron Silliman and others.
Shows of paintings, drawings, and collages at:
La Zucca, Venice, Italy 1984 Campanotti Editore, Udine, Italy 1984 Casa dei Architetti, Riva, Switzerland 1986 Ca'Bianca, Reggio d'Emilia, Italy 1987 Fortuna Gallery, Brunswick, Maine, USA 1989 Les Matinaux, Paris 14, France 1989 Gilpin's, London N16 1989 The Figures, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA 1991 Avida Dollars, Milan, Italy 1992 Le Refuge, Marseille, France 1992 La Zucca, Venice, Italy 1992 Abstract Gallery, Great Barrington, Mass. USA 1992 Jesus College, Cambridge, UK 1992 Gerald Adelman's, Chicago, USA 1993 The Poetry Society, London, UK 1994 Agli Orti, Lugano, Switzerland, 1994. Front Gallery, Housatonic, US 1997. C.C.C.P. Cambridge, UK 1998 Museo d'Arte, Mendrisio, TI, Switzerland, 1999 (collaborations
with Franco Beltrametti) Gerald Adelman's, Chicago, USA, 2000 Venice Biennale: banner (Claude Royet-Journoud's work on the other side)
displayed with other artists'/poets' banners in via Garibaldi, Venice, June, 2001. CIPM, Marseille, France, 2002 PACE Exhibition, Venice, Italy, December 2003 Art Museum, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, August/September 2005 Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, USA, Spring.
Audible Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA, November/December 2006 Gallery of the University of Miami, Oxford, Ohio, USA, January/February 2007
Readings:
For over thirty-five years I have given public readings too
numerous to remember, let alone list: in Universities, Colleges,
Libraries, Bookstores, High Schools, Primary Schools, Community
Centres, — anywhere I was invited: including the
following International Festivals.
1972 International Poetry Festival, Austin, Texas, USA
1977 Cambridge Poetry Festival, Cambridge, UK.
1978 Poetry International, Rotterdam, Holland
One World Poetry, Amsterdam, Holland
1985 PoËsie Sonore, Geneva, Switzerland
Rencontre International de PoËsie II, Cogolin, France
1986 Di Versi in Versi, Parma, Italy
Milanopoesia, Milan, Italy
1987 PoËsie Sonore, Geneva, Switzerland
Gothenburg International Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
Rencontre International d'Allauch, Allauch, France
1988 Rencontre International de PoËsie, Tarascon,
France
Polyphonix 13th International Festival, Paris, France
1989 International Arts Festival, Reggio d"Emilia, Italy
Di Versi in Versi, Parma, Italy
1990 Milanopoesia, Milan, Italy.
1991 Rencontre International de PoËsie, Tarascon,
France
1992 International Poetry Festival, Coimbra, Portugal
Segni nel Tempo, Lana, Italy
Homage to John Cage, Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
1993 Struga International Poetry Festival, Republic of
Macedonia
International Conference on the Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
1994 International Conference on Language and Poetry,
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
1996 Veneziapoesia, Venice, Italy
Assembling Alternatives, University of New Hampshire, USA
1997 Poesia in Percorsi, Pavia, Italy.
1999 Art Institute, Chicago, USA,
Arts Club, Chicago, USA
2000 Mot(s)/Musique, Lausanne, Switzerland.
International Poetry Festival, Locarno, Switzerland.
Poesia in Percorsi, Pavia, Italy.
Poesie Sonore, La Batie, Geneva, Switzerland.
Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, USA.
2001 La Nave dei Folli, International Poetry Festival, Locarno, Switzerland.
Venice Biennale, Guggenheim Museum, Italy.
International Poetry Festival, Cork, Ireland.
2002 International Poetry Festival, Cork, Ireland.
International Literature Festival, Berlin, Germany.
2003 International Poetry Festival, Cork, Ireland.
2004 International Poetry Festival, Cork, Ireland.
2005 First Pearl River Poetry Conference, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
2006 Contemporary Experimental Women's Poetry Festival, Cambridge, England.
Outer Ear Festival of Sound, Chicago and Milwaukee, USA.
2008 Keynote reader at "Poetry of the 70s" conference, U. of Maine, Orono, USA 2010 Second Qinghai International Poetry Festival, Xining, People's Republic of China. International Book Fair, Oaxaca, Mexico.
2013 Iridescent Notation (a selection of poems) pour soprano et 7 instruments, by Samuel Andreyev broadcast on France Musique.
I have read in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Canada, The
United States, Hungary, Sweden, Holland, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland,
Spain, Greece, Russia, the Republic of South Africa, the Republic of
Macedonia, Yugoslavia, the Czech Republic, Mexico and the People's Republic of China.
Reviews, interviews, articles,
etc.
Alpert, Barry:-- Tom Raworth, an interview in Vort 1,
Indiana 1972
Barrell, John:-- Subject and Sentence; the Poetry of Tom Raworth
in Critical Enquiry Vol.17 No.2, Chicago, winter 1991
Bartlett, Lee:-- Tom Raworth in Talking Poetry: Conversations
in the Workshop with Contemporary Poets, University of New Mexico
Press 1986
Brooker, Peter:-- Postmodern Postpoetry: Tom Raworth's Tottering
State in Contemporary Poetry meets Modern Theory,
Harvester/Wheatsheaf 1992
Champion, Miles:-- A Good Day for English Poetray in Poetry
News Review 97, London 1994
Corbett, William:-- Harwood/Walker and Raworth in Poetics
Journal 2, Berkeley 1982
Dietz, Bernd:-- Intelligencia que non sustituye a la intuicion: la
Poesia de Tom Raworth in Revista Canaria de Estudios Inglese,
Tenerife 1985
Dorn, Edward:-- On Tom Raworth in Vort 1, Indiana 1972
Dorward, Nate:-- in Chicago Review, Spring 2001
:-- (editor) Removed for Further Study (Toronto, 2003)
Hamilton, Ian (editor):-- (in) Oxford Companion to Twentieth
Century Poetry, Oxford University Press 1994
Guldimann, Colette:-- Difficult Poetry: Tom Raworth and the frame
of Postmodernism, in Pretexts Vol.6 No.2 November 1997
Higgins, John:-- Reviews of Writing, Tottering State, and Tractor
Parts in The Minnesota Review 26, NY 1986
Lawson, Andrew :-- Life after Larkin in Textual Practice
winter 1989
MacCabe, Colin:-- Dissolving the Voice in Times Literary
Supplement, London 1983
Mengham, Rod:-- Logarhythms: Tom Raworth's Logbook in
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 6, NY December 1978
Muckle, John:-- How Radio Works: Tom Raworth's Poetry (parts 1 & 2) in PN Review(s) 33 & 34, London 2007
Nuttall, Jeff:-- The Singing Ted in Poetry Information
9/10, London 1974
Pajalich, Armando:-- Tom Raworth in Dizionnario Bompiani degli
Autori di tutti i Tempi e tutte le Letterature 4, Milan 1987
Perloff, Marjorie:-- The World as Such in The American Poetry
Review, May-June 1984
Perril, Simon:-- The Endless Deployment/ of Writing in Tom
Raworth -- an Exhibition of Book and Art Works, Cambridge
Conference of Contemporary Poetry Catalog, Cambridge UK 1998
Reed, Brian M:-- Carry on, England: Tom Raworth's "West
Wind," Intuition, and Neo-Avant-Garde Poetics in Contemporary Literature 2006.
Robertson, James:-- Tom Raworth -- an interview in Varsity,
Cambridge 1992
Robinson, Kit :-- Tom Raworth in Dictionary of Literary
Biographies, Detroit 1985
Sheppard, Robert:-- Tom Raworth in New Cambridge Guide to
Literature in English, UK 1988
Tuma, Keith:-- On Tom Raworth on Tom Raworth in Poetica 64, Tokyo 2006
Ward, Geoff:-- On Tom Raworth in Perfect Bound 2, Cambridge
1976
Warsh, Lewis:-- On Tom Raworth's A Serial Biography in Poetry
Information 16, London 1977
Watson, Don:-- The Big Green Day in City Limits, London
1989
Weatherhead, A.N :-- Tom Raworth in The British Dissonance,
University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London 1983
Collaborations and performances (between
1980 and the present) with:
Franco Beltrametti (Swiss-Italian painter and poet)
MA IL (broadside, Switzerland 1984) Horses (paintings and graphic works, Italy 1986) The Thoughts of Captain Alexis (book and performance;
Switzerland, Italy and France, various times) La Bande des Cinq with Julien Blaine, Corrado Costa, James
Koller (painting/performance, France 1989) Signing a River (performance event, Switzerland 1990) Captain Alexis meets the Last Koing Poets (book and
performance, France 1991 Arte Nanetta (multimedia show, with Dario Villa, Italy
1992) KTCFYW (booklet), Switzerland, 1993)
Jean-Yves Cousseau (French photographer)
Lieux d'Ecrits (book, France) Le Voyage de l'Objet (book, France)
Giovanni d'Agostino (Italian painter)
Di Versi in Versi (performance, Italy) Collaborations (graphic works, Bologna, Italy)
John Gian and Rita degli Esposti (Italian writers and
painters)
Various performances and readings in Italy.
MicaÎla Henich (French graphic artist)
1,003 Drawings (books, with texts by Derrida, Fourcade,
Roubaud, Palmer and Raworth, France)
JoÎlle LÈandre (French musician)
Captain Alexis (with Beltrametti and Dario Villa;
performance, Italy)
Sixty Words; performance, Lausanne, Switzerland. † † Ruth Lingen (American book-designer and printer)
Nothing (broadside, USA)
Pierre Savatier (French photographer)
Rainbow (book, France)
Steve Lacy (American musician)
Performance in Marseille, France. Performance in Pavia, Italy.
Steve Nelson-Raney (American musician and writer)
Performances in Milwaukee and Chicago.
Giancarlo (Nino) Locatelli (Italian musician)
Performances in Locarno, Switzerland.
Dario Villa (Italian poet and translator)
Various performances of Captain Alexis, with others, in
Italy and Switzerland
Lars Fredrikson (Swedish/French sculptor, painter, sound
designer)
Son Nets (projected sound/poetry sculpture, France)
Susanne Doppelt (French photographer) and Rob Rusk
(American photographer)
Ascenseur (book, exhibition/installation, France and USA)
Esther Roth (Swiss pianist and composer)
Blue Screen (performance in Venice, Italy) Blue Screen (performance in Pavia, Italy) Something New (performance in Geneva, Switzerland)
Bruce Ackley (American musician)
Performance, San Francisco State University Poetry Center, 2000
Alberto Braida and Nino Locatelli (Italian musicians)
Performance of Dylan Thomas poems, Lodi and Milan, 2000
Peter Brötzmann (German musician)
Performances, graphics exhibition and classes in Chicago and Milwaukee, 2006
:-- Tom Raworth and the Invisibles in The Cambridge Quarterly, Cambridge 2002