Tom Raworth

photo: ©2008 Bernstein/PennSound

Close Listening @ Studio 111
University of Pennsylvania, March 13, 2006:
A Conversation with Charles Bernstein (30:42): MP3

Close Listening Reading
Kelly Writers House, March 13, 2006:
Complete Reading (1:00:11)
1. Introduction by Charles Bernstein (1:10)
2. Listen Up (1:25)   [text of poem at CounterPunch]
3. Reference (0:14)
4. Logbook, Page 106 (1:17)
5. Logbook, Page 291 (1:10)
6. Logbook, Page 298 (1:01)
7. Logbook, Page 301 (1:02)
8. Logbook, Page 345 (0:59)
9. Logbook, Page 356 (1:14)
10. Logbook, Page 372 (1:18)
11. Logbook, Page 399 (1:19)
12. Logbook, Page 444 (1:06)
13. Logbook, Page 453 (0:52)
14. Writing (35:11)
15. Caller (7:29)
16. Poem Poem (instrumental rendering) (1:40)

Big Slippers On - Fourteen Poems by Tom Raworth
Cassette recording originally published by Ulli Freer at Microbrigade.
1. Vein (5:24)
2. Wit Wither (1:54)
3. Blue Screen (6:39)
4. All Fours (1:59)
5. Gaslight (1:00)
6. Proust (1:19)
7. Catacoustics (5:44)
8. Belt (0:06)
9. Poe (0:05)
10. Attitude (0:02)
11. What's This All About (0:05)
12. Los Angeles (0:14)
13. Infinite Variety Stales (0:25)
14. Blue Vacuum Cleaner (0:15)

Recorded October 20th, 1993 at Tom & Val's Base, Cambridge.
Recorded by G. Boulting mix & dAT
M. Richie, Ulli Freer

Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, March 11, 2006
Complete Reading (27:45)
1. Introduction by Charles Borkhuis (2:23)
2. Last Words (Peter Porter Envoi) (1:30)
3. Systems Disruption (0:26)
4. Emptily (5:28)
5. The Mosquito and the Moon (3:21)
6. Death to a Star (2:22)
7. Caller (7:21)
8. War on Terror (instrumental rendering) (1:00)


Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, October 9, 2001

1. Lytle Shaw's Introduction (1:51): MP3
2. Just How Intelligent is the Pilot Whale? (1:41): MP3
3. Sleepy Villa (1:00): MP3
4. Transfer Track (0:22): MP3
5. Sleep, Perch (0:21): MP3
6. Remember When People Were Tortured? (0:22): MP3
7. Intellectual Compost 3 (0:36): MP3
8. Firewall (5:43): MP3
9. Intellectual Compost 4 (1:02): MP3
10. Tricking Electricity (1:23): MP3
11. Translation (3:41): MP3
12. Merchandising Slogans (Visual-auditory Notebook) (with xylophone postlude) (2:48): MP3

Complete Reading (22:17): MP3

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, October 9, 1991
Full Reading (27:28)

from The Relation Ship (1966)
1. Not Under Holly or Green Boughs (for David and Nicole) (1:19)
2. The Blood Thinks, and Pauses (0:48)
3. September Morning (0:26)
4. The Third Retainer (0:29)

5. from All Fours (1991) (1:56)

6. from Eternal Sections (1993) (6:35)

7. Out of the Picture (from Clean & Well Lit, 1996) (4:00)

8. from Survival (1994) (5:09)

9. from The Vein (1991) (4:57)


Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York March 24, 1989
Complete Reading (40:12): MP3

Also of Interest:
Reading at UCSD (21:38): RealAudio
Read more about and listen to Raworth's works at Meshworks

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These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2005 Tom Raworth. Used with permission of Tom Raworth. Distributed by PennSound.