Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Tom Raworth is a native of London, England, however during the seventies he traveled and worked in the United States and Mexico. He returned to England in 1977 to be Resident Poet at King's College in Cambridge where he still resides. Since 1966 he has published more than forty books and pamphlets of poetry, prose, and translation in several countries. His graphic work has been shown in France and Italy and he has collaborated performed with musicians like Steve Lacy and Joelle Leandre, painters like Giovanni D'Agostino and Micaela Henich, and other poets like Franco Beltrametti, Corrado Costa, and Dario Villa. Fellow poet Charles Bernstein stated that "For more than thirty years, Tom Raworth has been at the forefront of English language writing. With the fastest line in the west, Raworth's flickering, disconsolate, syntactically restless, lifting, often angry, almost balletic poems resist habitual thought at every break, rekindling animate social consciousness. There is no better
About the Author
Tom Raworth was born and grew up in London. During the 1970s he travelled and worked in the USA and Mexico, returning to England in 1977 to be Resident Poet at King's College, Cambridge, in which city he still lives. Since 1966 he has published more than forty books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations, in several countries. His graphic work has been shown in France, Italy, and the USA, and he has collaborated and performed with musicians (Steve Lacy, Jo‰lle L‚andre, Steve Nelson-Raney, Esther Roth, Nino Locatelli), painters (Giovanni D'Agostino, Mica‰la Henich), and other poets (Franco Beltrametti, Corrado Costa, Dario Villa). He was editor of three literary/art magazines: outburst (1961-63); Before Your Very Eyes! (1964); and Infolio (1986-87). During the 1960s he also ran two small presses - Matrix and Goliard. Since the early 1970s he has read his work in more than 20 countries, including at many International Literary Festivals, and has been invited to teach, or to be a visiting writer, in France, Italy, the USA, and the Republic of South Africa. Tom Raworth's Collected Poems were published in 2003. His latest collection is Caller and Other Pieces (2007).