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Tom Raworth


photo: ©2008 Bernstein/PennSound

Close Listening recording session at Studio 111, UPenn, March 13, 2006

A conversation with host Charles Bernstein (30:42): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, March 13, 2006

  1. Introduction by Charles Bernstein (1:10): MP3
  2. Listen Up (1:25): MP3, [ text ]
  3. Reference (0:14): MP3
  4. Logbook, page 106 (1:17): MP3
  5. Logbook, page 291 (1:10): MP3
  6. Logbook, page 298 (1:01): MP3
  7. Logbook, page 301 (1:02): MP3
  8. Logbook, page 345 (0:59): MP3
  9. Logbook, page 356 (1:14): MP3
  10. Logbook, page 372 (1:18): MP3
  11. Logbook, page 399 (1:19): MP3
  12. Logbook, page 444 (1:06): MP3
  13. Logbook, page 453 (0:52): MP3
  14. Writing (35:11): MP3
  15. Caller (7:29): MP3
  16. Poem Poem (instrumental rendering) (1:40): MP3
Complete reading (1:00:11): MP3

Rockdrill 4: Ace, Tom Raworth Poems, 1966-1979



Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Optic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2004.
All tracks are from  Tom Raworth: Collected Poems ( Carcanet Press, 2003).
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.
  1. Drinking Electricity (1:42): MP3
  2. Anniversary (1:08): MP3
  3. My Face is My Own, I Thought (0:48): MP3
  4. Morning (0:30): MP3
  5. For Paul Dorn (0:37): MP3
  6. Six Days (6:39): MP3
  7. Ah the Poetry of Miss Parrot's Feet Demonstating the Tango (0:56): MP3
  8. Hot Day at the Races (0:54): MP3
  9. Got Me (0:34): MP3
  10. Shoes (0:45): MP3
  11. Gitanes (1:35): MP3
  12. Introduction (0:22): MP3
  13. Oratorio (0:29): MP3
  14. Variations (0:23): MP3
  15. Adagio (0:15): MP3
  16. Saraband (0:20): MP3
  17. Nocturne (0:21): MP3
  18. Traveling (0:45): MP3
  19. South America (1:18): MP3
  20. Come Back, Come Back, O Glittering and White! (0:32): MP3
  21. The Stroboscopic Forest Light Plays (0:17): MP3
  22. Your Number is Up (0:12): MP3
  23. Reference (0:13): MP3
  24. Energy Gap (0:18): MP3
  25. Toxophily (0:21): MP3
  26. Surgical Names: John (0:10): MP3
  27. Taxonomy (0:12): MP3
  28. Western World (0:32): MP3
  29. I Better Put a Pattern around This if They're Going to Call it a Poem (0:18): MP3
  30. The Century Doesn't Want to be 72 (0:11): MP3
  31. University Days (0:11): MP3
  32. Canvas (0:14): MP3
  33. The Only Sound in Dallas was the Mexican Beans Jumping (0:26): MP3
  34. A Blue Vacuum Cleaner (0:20): MP3
  35. The Beckoning Harpoon (0:14): MP3
  36. The Conscience of a Conservative (4:04): MP3
  37. Ulysses: or Trotsky's Death (0:26): MP3
  38. The Drama Review (0:57): MP3
  39. Funeral Cards (1:18): MP3
  40. Beautiful Habit (1:57): MP3
  41. Perpetual Motion (1:43): MP3
  42. Horse Power (2:38): MP3
  43. Coda: Songs of the Mask (0:32): MP3
  44. Ace (13:48): MP3
  45. Piety (0:16): MP3
  46. Skiey (0:28): MP3
  47. Sped on Alone (0:14): MP3
  48. Magnetic Water (1:22): MP3
  49. Pretense (7:53): MP3

Presentation at New College; recorded November 12, 1981.

Recordings courtesy of David Levi Strauss

  • complete recording (1:22:34): MP3
Rockdrill 5: Writing, Tom Raworth Poems 1966-1979

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, February 25, 1995

  • complete recording (24:14): MP3


Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Optic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2004.
All tracks are from Tom Raworth: Collected Poems (Carcanet Press 2003)
except "Pyrophoric" which is from a work in progress.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.
  1. Writing (32:26): MP3
  2. Just How Intelligent Is the Pilot Whale? (0:18): MP3
  3. Damn the Neutrinos! (0:12): MP3
  4. Quillets (0:13): MP3
  5. Making Marks (1:45): MP3
  6. "towards finding out the truth" (0:21): MP3
  7. "reversals of performance levels" (0:26): MP3
  8. "one precious fragment" (0:21): MP3
  9. "be scrupulously attentive" (0:19): MP3
  10. "forced to act" (0:20): MP3
  11. "fear that increases" (0:21): MP3
  12. "attitudes do not necessarily change" (0:20): MP3
  13. "minarets were built singly" (0:23): MP3
  14. "imperative is the index" (0:22): MP3
  15. "apart from supporting" (0:23): MP3
  16. "a very strange kind of intervention" (0:22): MP3
  17. "a record of attractions" (0:22): MP3
  18. "in a haze of nerve gas" (0:24): MP3
  19. "passing near the black hole" (0:21): MP3
  20. "he hated to get wet" (0:19): MP3
  21. "gazing without expression" (0:19): MP3
  22. "isolated in contrast" (0:19): MP3
  23. Emptily (5:23): MP3
  24. Wit Wither (2:06): MP3
  25. Errory (2:08): MP3 [text]
  26. Dark Senses (2:37): MP3
  27. Out of a Sudden (0:40): MP3
  28. Intellectual Compost 3 (0:42): MP3
  29. Unable to Create Carrier (0:53): MP3
  30. Crowded with Otiose Passengers (0:48): MP3
  31. Cat Van Cat (0:59): MP3
  32. Pyrophoric (0:32): MP3
  33. For John Gian (1:41): MP3
  34. Caller (3:09): MP3

Big Slippers On: Fourteen Poems by Tom Raworth

Cassette recording originally published by Ulli Freer at Microbrigade.
  1. Vein (5:24): MP3
  2. Wit Wither (1:54): MP3
  3. Blue Screen (6:39): MP3
  4. All Fours (1:59): MP3
  5. Gaslight (1:00): MP3
  6. Proust (1:19): MP3
  7. Catacoustics (5:44): MP3
  8. Belt (0:06): MP3
  9. Poe (0:05): MP3
  10. Attitude (0:02): MP3
  11. What's This All About (0:05): MP3
  12. Los Angeles (0:14): MP3
  13. Infinite Variety Stales (0:25): MP3
  14. Blue Vacuum Cleaner (0:15): MP3
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

  1. Introduction by Charles Borkhuis (2:23): MP3
  2. Last Words (Peter Porter Envoi) (1:30): MP3
  3. Systems Disruption (0:26): MP3
  4. Emptily (5:28): MP3
  5. The Mosquito and the Moon (3:21): MP3
  6. Death to a Star (22:22): MP3
  7. Caller (7:21): MP3
  8. War on Terror (instrumental rendering) (1:00): MP3
Complete reading (27:45): MP3

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 the Ed Dorn Memorial Tribute, San Francisco, Cloud House Poetry Archives, February 17, 2000

Also readings by Steve Dickison, Gordon Brotherston, Bob Callahan, Tom Clark, Stephen Emerson, Joanne Kyger, and Duncan McNaughton

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Reading at UCSD, 2000

Complete reading (21:38): RealAudio

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, October 9, 1991

  1. Not Under Holly or Green Boughs (for David and Nicole) (1:19): MP3
  2. The Blood Think, and Pauses (0:48): MP3
  3. September Morning (0:26): MP3
  4. The Third Retainer (0:29): MP3
  5. from All Fours (1:56): MP3
  6. from Eternal Sections (6:35): MP3
  7. Out of the Pictures (4:00): MP3
  8. from Survival (5:09): MP3
  9. from The Vein (4:57): MP3
Complete reading (27:28): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, March 24, 1989

Complete Reading (40:12): MP3

Also of Interest:

Read more about and listen to Raworth's works at Meshworks

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Tom Raworth PennSound page edited by Kun Jia.

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