Tom Raworth
Tom Raworth ( &#; ), in addition to a career that included being the editor of Outburst magazine, founder of the Goliard Press, and an artist whose shows were seen in galleries in Europe and America, was a prolific poet, with over forty books and pamphlets published since Born in London, he travelled widely and lived in both the USA and Mexico before returning to Britain, settling in Cambridge, where he was Poet in Residence to Kings College, Cambridge; he also received the Alice Hunt Bartlett prize, the Cholmondeley Award, and Arts Council funding for his writing. His Collected Poems were published by Carcanet in
His poetry&#;s subject matter ranges widely, including self-reflexive poems that discuss their own creation &#; &#;i remove i and a colon from two lines above&#; in &#;The Moon Upoon the Waters&#; to the loving farewell in &#;You Were Wearing Blue&#;, from elegiac fragments such as &#;In Memoriam Ludwig Wittgenstein&#; to political engagements in poems like &#;Human Warmth&#; or &#;Nothing&#;. Formally, while Raworth is not often given to familiar forms or full-rhyme, he will often shape his poems with stanzas or structural systems that counterpoint
Thomas Moore Raworth (19 July – 8 February ) was an English-Irish poet, publisher, editor, and teacher who published over 40 books of poetry and prose during his life. His work has been translated and published in many countries. Raworth was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival.
Life and work
Early life
Raworth was born on 19 July in Bexleyheath, Kent, and grew up in Welling, the neighbouring town. His family maintained its strong Irish connections while he was growing up, something which would leave an impression on Raworth's sense of himself as a poet. His mother's family lived in the same house in Dublin as Seán O'Casey at the time that the playwright was working on Juno and the Pay*. When he was 52 years old, Raworth acquired an Irish p*port.
He was educated at St. Stephen's Primary School, Welling, Kent (–); St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath, London S.E (–); and at the University of Essex (–), where he earned a Master's degree in He left school at the age of sixteen and worked at a variety of jobs. According to Raworth:
Between leaving school in and going to the University of Essex in I had a variety of jobs, includi
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Born Bexleyheath, London, 19 July He published more than 40 books of poetry and was credited with promoting the post-war American poetry tradition on the modern British poetry scene. He particularly promoted the work of poets associated with the Black Mountain School. He founded the Goliard Press in with the artist Barry Hall. Having left school at 15, he later attended the University of Essex where he gained an MA in literary translation. He travelled extensively, giving poetry readings in Mexico, Spain, the United States and South Africa. He held visiting teaching positions at the University of Texas in Austin, the University of California in San Diego, and the University of Cape Town. He was also poet-in-residence at King’s College, Cambridge. He died on 8 February
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Letters, postcards and notes (10 items) from Tom Raworth, nine to Ken Edwards and one (a copy) to Eric Mottram. With an untitled collection of poems by Raworth, dated
Tom Raworth
The Best Poem Of Tom Raworth
The University Of Essex
1. gone to lunch back in five minutes
night closed in on my letter of resignation
out in the square one of my threads had broken loose
the language i used was no and no
while the yellow still came through, the hammer and the drills
occasionally the metabolism alters
and lines no longer come express
waiting for you what muscles work me
which hold me down below my head?
it is a long coat and a van on the horizon
a bird that vanishes the arabic
i learn from observation is how to break the line
(genius creates surprises : the metropolitan
police band singing ‘bless this house'
as the filmed extractor fans inflate the house with steam
2. walking my back home
the wind
is the wind
is a no-vo-cain band
and the footstep
echoes
i
have conjured people
3. ah, it all falls into place
when it was time what he had left became a tile
bodies held shaped by the pressure of air
were clipped to his attention by their gestures
my but we do have powerful muscles
each of us equal to gravity
or sunlight that forces our shadows
into the pieces of a fully interlocking puzzle
4. good morning he whispered
the horror
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