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Rockdrill 1

I Know A Man, Robert Creeley: Poems 1945–1975.
Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Optic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2004.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.

  1. Return (0:28): MP3
  2. For an Anniversary (0:27): MP3
  3. The Europeans (0:16): MP3
  4. The Revelation (0:27): MP3
  5. Chasing the Bird (0:41): MP3
  6. The Changes (0:34): MP3
  7. Stomping with Catullus (1:10): MP3
  8. The Picnic (0:38): MP3
  9. The Sentence (0:27): MP3
  10. Preface to 'For Love' (1:28): MP3
  11. A Song (0:58): MP3
  12. The Crisis (0:35): MP3
  13. The Innocence (0:36): MP3
  14. After Lorca (0:37): MP3
  15. The Dishonest Mailman (0:32): MP3
  16. The Immoral Proposition (0:33): MP3
  17. The Conspiracy (0:29): MP3
  18. I Know a Man (0:29): MP3
  19. The Disappointment (0:23): MP3
  20. Naughty Boy (0:40): MP3
  21. The Whip (1:13): MP3
  22. All That is Lovely in Men (0:23): MP3
  23. A Form of Woman (1:27): MP3
  24. Please (1:01): MP3
  25. Oh No (0:30): MP3
  26. Goodbye (0:41): MP3
  27. A Marriage (0:30): MP3
  28. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:56): MP3
  29. If You (1:00): MP3
  30. Heroes (0:59): MP3
  31. The Door (4:12): MP3
  32. Kore (0:55): MP3
  33. The Rain (0:59): MP3
  34. Midnight (0:28): MP3
  35. Mind's Heart (0:18): MP3
  36. Loves Comes Quietly (0:23): MP3
  37. The People (0:32): MP3
  38. The Wife (0:34): MP3
  39. For Love (2:31): MP3
  40. Preface to 'Words' (1:03): MP3
  41. The Rhythm (1:11): MP3
  42. The Mountains in the Desert (0:34): MP3
  43. For W.C.W. (0:35): MP3
  44. I (1:31): MP3
  45. Something (1:03): MP3
  46. Anger (4:55): MP3
  47. The Answer (0:28): MP3
  48. Some Echoes (0:23): MP3
  49. A Prayer (0:17): MP3
  50. Joy (0:17): MP3
  51. A Picture (0:27): MP3
  52. Here (0:13): MP3
  53. Intervals (0:35): MP3
  54. From 'Song' (Allen Ginsberg) (0:12): MP3
  55. As real as thinking (0:37): MP3
  56. The Moon (1:08): MP3
  57. Names (0:26): MP3
  58. America (0:38): MP3
  59. Mazatlan: Sea (1:25): MP3
  60. B- (1:36): MP3
  61. Four (0:37): MP3
  62. Here (8:54): MP3
  63. 'Do You Think. . .' (2:01): MP3
  64. Massachusetts (1:31): MP3
  65. For Benny and Sabina (0:51): MP3
  66. Rain (0:58): MP3
  67. Rain (2) (0:34): MP3
  68. As Now It Would Be Snow (1:41): MP3
  69. For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley, April 8, 1887-October 7, 1972 (3:13): MP3

Rockdrill 2

Just in Time, Robert Creeley: Poems 1976–1998.
Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Optic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2004.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.

  1. So There (3:36): MP3
  2. Myself (1:09): MP3
  3. This World (1:09): MP3
  4. The House (1:28): MP3
  5. I Love You (0:48):MP3
  6. For Years Later (1:07): MP3
  7. Thanks (0:56): MP3
  8. First Rain (0:41): MP3
  9. The Edge (1:20): MP3
  10. Song ('Love has no other friends') (1:13): MP3
  11. Time - for Willy (2:03): MP3
  12. Mother's Voice (0:56): MP3
  13. Buffalo Evening (0:34): MP3
  14. Oh Max (5:25): MP3
  15. Room (0:29): MP3
  16. Massachusetts May (0:35): MP3
  17. Fathers (1:08): MP3
  18. Memory Gardens (0:44): MP3
  19. Supper (0:13): MP3
  20. Mother's Photograph (0:36): MP3
  21. Valentine (0:29): MP3
  22. Back (1:01): MP3
  23. The Doctor (1:11): MP3
  24. Stairway to Heaven (0:44): MP3
  25. Oh (0:40): MP3
  26. 'Ever Since Hitler. . ." (0:39): MP3
  27. Thinking (1:13): MP3
  28. Whatever (0:32): MP3
  29. Helsinki Window (5:37): MP3
  30. Spring Light (0:39): MP3
  31. New Mexico (1:13): MP3
  32. East Street Again (0:48): MP3
  33. A Note (1:02): MP3
  34. This House (1:19): MP3
  35. Edges (1:43): MP3
  36. Historie de Florida (19:17): MP3
  37. Credo (2:07): MP3
  38. Goodbye (1:14): MP3
  39. Four Days in Vermont (4:47): MP3
  40. Edges (2:40): MP3

Rockdrill 3

The Chart Table, Lee Harwood: Poems 1965–2002.
Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research
Centre, Optic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2004.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.

  1. As Your Eyes Are Blue (3:47): MP3
  2. The Doomed Fleet (8:13): MP3
  3. Question of Geography (2:17): MP3
  4. Linen (1:52): MP3
  5. The Words (2:25): MP3
  6. Animal Days (5:55): MP3
  7. Qasida (3:49): MP3
  8. One, Two, Three (4:12): MP3
  9. You Essai. You O.K. (8:42): MP3
  10. Summer Solstice (3:12): MP3
  11. African Violets (5:37): MP3
  12. The Rowan Tree (4:32): MP3
  13. For Paul / Coming Out of Winter (1:28): MP3
  14. October Night (3:01): MP3
  15. Czech Dream (4:39): MP3
  16. Gorgeous (1:28): MP3
  17. Late Journeys (1:13): MP3
  18. The Wind Rises (4:32): MP3
  19. Salt Water (3:58): MP3
  20. Hampton Court Shelter (2:46): 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

Rockdrill 5

Writing, 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)
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. 'forced to act' (0:20): MP3
  10. 'fear that increases' (0:21): MP3
  11. 'attitudes do not necessarily change' (0:20): MP3
  12. 'minarets were built singly' (0:23): MP3
  13. 'imperative is the index' (0:22): MP3
  14. 'apart from supporting' (0:23): MP3
  15. 'a very strange kind of intervention' (0:22): MP3
  16. 'a record of attractions' (0:22): MP3
  17. 'in a haze of nerve gas' (0:24): MP3
  18. 'passing near the black hole' (0:21): MP3
  19. 'he hated to get wet' (0:19): MP3
  20. 'gazing without expression' (0:19): MP3
  21. 'isolated in contrast' (0:19): MP3
  22. Emptily (5:23): MP3
  23. Wit Wither (2:06): MP3
  24. Errory (2:08): MP3
  25. Dark Senses (2:37): MP3
  26. Out of a Sudden (0:40): MP3
  27. Intellectual Compost 3 (0:42): MP3
  28. Unable to Create Carrier (0:53): MP3
  29. Crowded with Otiose Passengers (0:48): MP3
  30. Cat Van Cat (0:59): MP3
  31. Pyrophoric (0:32): MP3
  32. For John Gian (1:41): MP3
  33. Caller (3:09): MP3

Rockdrill 6

Sightings, Jerome Rothenberg: Poems 1960–1983
Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research
Centre, Optic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2004.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.

  1. Twentieth Century Unlimited (0:36): MP3
  2. 'A Little Boy Lost' (0:57): MP3
  3. A Bodhisattava Undoes Hell (2:22): MP3
  4. Sightings #1, #2, #4 (2:55): MP3
  5. The Pirate (1:31): MP3
  6. The Water of the Flowery Mill (0:59): MP3
  7. Child of an Idumean Night (3:24): MP3
  8. from Poland/1931 'The Wedding,' Yiddish translation by Amos Schauss (0:59): MP3
  9. from Poland/1931 'The Wedding' (2:27): MP3
  10. from Poland/1931 'The Wedding,' music by Bertram Turetzky (3:05): MP3
  11. Portrait of a Jew Old Country Style (3:04): MP3
  12. Cokboy: Part One (7:03): MP3
  13. Cokboy: Part Two (7:08): MP3
  14. The Animals Are Coming, translation from Senecan Indian with Richard Johnny John (1:25): MP3
  15. Introduction to 'A Seneca Journal' (1:02): MP3
  16. from 'A Seneca Journal 1: A Poem of Beavers' (1:38): MP3
  17. Old Man Beaver's Blessing Song (1:33): MP3
  18. from The Dreamers (1:32): MP3
  19. The 13th Horse Song of Frank Mitchell (4:53): MP3
  20. from The First Horse Song of Frank Mitchell: 4-Voice Version (3:30): MP3
  21. The Chicago Poem (2:44): MP3
  22. The Chicago Poem, with music by George Lewis (3:53): MP3
  23. That Dada Strain (0:39): MP3
  24. That Dada Strain, with music by Bertram Turetzky (0:43): MP3
  25. Karawane (Hugo Ball), with music by Bertram Turetzky (1:57): MP3
  26. A Glass Tube Ecstasy for Hugo Ball, with music by Bertram Turetzky (1:53): MP3
  27. the Holy Words of Tristan Tzara (7:53): MP3

Rockdrill 7

Seedings, Jerome Rothenberg: Poems 1984–2003
Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research
Centre, Optic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2004.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.

  1. In the dark world, khurbn (0:42): MP3
  2. Dos Oysleydikn (The Emptying) (2:31): MP3
  3. In the dark world, khurbn [music by Charlie Morrow] (0:45): MP3
  4. Dos Oysleydikn (The Emptying) [music by Charlie Morrow] (2:38): MP3
  5. Dos Geshray (The Scream) [music by Charlie Morrow] (2:39): MP3
  6. Peroration for a Lost Town [music by Charlie Morrow] (6:04): MP3
  7. A Paradise of Poets (0:38): MP3
  8. Lorca Variations XXXIII: Second New York Poem (7:05): MP3
  9. Seedings (10:09): MP3
  10. Postlude to Seedings (2:21): MP3
  11. At Tsukiji Market, Tokyo (7:19): MP3
  12. New Improvisations (8:05): MP3
  13. Three Paris Elegies (5:00): MP3
  14. First Night Poem, for Jackson MacLow (3:41): MP3
  15. Autobiography 1997 (5:36): MP3
  16. Auschwitz-Birkenau (0:51): MP3
  17. Baba Yar (0:35): MP3
  18. The Case for Memory (0:49): MP3
  19. The Burning House (0:44): MP3
  20. Where God is Light (0:51): MP3
  21. A Real Man (0:50): MP3
  22. The Last Friend (0:43): MP3
  23. I Am Mad by Turns (0:59): MP3
  24. A Cruel Nirvana (0:52): MP3
  25. I Prefer a Poem with Spaces (1:04): MP3
  26. I Can't Say Who I Am (0:56): MP3
  27. I Come into the New World (1:19): MP3

Rockdrill 8

Via, Caroline Bergvall: Poems 1994–2004
Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Opic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2005.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.

  1. Ambient Fish (1:43): MP3
  2. Doll (5:58): MP3
  3. About Face (8:19): MP3
  4. GOING (4:08): MP3
  5. 8 Figs (11:10): MP3
  6. VIA (10:02): MP3
  7. RIDE (4:38): MP3
  8. Rapid Eye Movement, Part 2 (6:19): MP3

Rockdrill 9

Ghost Tantras, Michael McClure: Poems 1955–1991
Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Opic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2005.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.

  1. Song: 'I Work with the Shape' (0:23): MP3
  2. For the Death of 100 Whales (2:26): MP3
  3. Peyote Poem (5:18): MP3
  4. O giddy blank white page (1:24): MP3
  5. Ode to Jackson Pollock (4:01): MP3
  6. The Column (5:07): MP3
  7. The Flowers of Politics I (1:50): MP3
  8. The Flowers of Politics II (1:36): MP3
  9. Intro to "Ghost Tantras" (2:12): MP3
  10. Ghost Tantra #39 (1:14): MP3
  11. Ghost Tantra #51 (1:05): MP3
  12. Ghost Tantra #49 at SF Zoo, 1966 (4:40): MP3
  13. Ghost Tantra #49 [with Terry Riley] (2:14): MP3
  14. Viet Nam Song (1:32): MP3
  15. Written after Finding a Dolphin's Skull (2:48): MP3
  16. Baja-Outside Mexicali (1:42): MP3
  17. from "Rare Angel" (1:37): MP3
  18. For Robert Creeley (1:03): MP3
  19. El Cerro Es Nuestro! (1:19): MP3
  20. Freewheelin's Tattoo (1:30): MP3
  21. Watching the Vulture (1:02): MP3
  22. Memories from Childhood (0:40): MP3
  23. Action Philosophy (1:21): MP3
  24. Action Philosophy [with Ray Manzarek] (3:17): MP3
  25. Leadbelly Blues (1:20): MP3
  26. Maybe Mama Lion [with Ray Manzarek] (5:24): MP3

Rockdrill 10

Rebel Lions, Michael McClure: Poems 1991–2004
Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Opic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2005.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.

  1. Indian (2:40): MP3
  2. Indian [with Ray Manzarek] (3:01): MP3
  3. Spanish Roses [with Ran Manzarek] (2:58): MP3
  4. Acid Memento One (1:14): MP3
  5. Acid Memento Two (1:13): MP3
  6. Beginning with a Line by di Prima (3:38): MP3
  7. Field 8 (1:53): MP3
  8. haikus from 'Rain Mirror' (6:32): MP3
  9. Dharma Devotion #7 (0:40): MP3
  10. Dharma Devotion #67 (0:50): MP3
  11. Dharma Devotion #32 (0:53): MP3
  12. Dharma Devotion #36 (0:49): MP3
  13. Dharma Devotion #67 (0:52): MP3
  14. Dharma Devotion #99 (0:59): MP3
  15. Plumstone #1/Vain Vanity Vanitas [with Terry Riley] (6:34): MP3
  16. from 'Cracked Goddess' (5:34): MP3
  17. from 'Mysteriosos' (2:46): MP3
  18. from 'The Beard' (4:52): MP3
  19. Plum Stone #3 [with Terry Riley] (2:40): MP3
  20. Fuck Ode (9:38): MP3

Rockdrill 11

States of Emergency, Maggie O'Sullivan: Poems 1982–1988
Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Opic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2005.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.

from Concerning Spheres, Broken Ground Press, 1982:

  • Concerning Spheres (4:30): MP3
  • Numbers in Winter (1:42): MP3
  • Joining the Colours (4:34): MP3
  • Growth (2:30): MP3
  • Notes & Outings (5:57): MP3
  • For My Mother (1:44): MP3
  • Remembering (3:26): MP3
  • Tree Pieces (1:23): MP3

from Un-Assuming Personas, Writers Forum, 1985:

  • Un-Assuming Personas (15:15): MP3

from States of Emergency, International Concrete Poetry Archive, 1987:

  • Lottery & Requiem (1:15): MP3
  • Headlights (6:43): MP3
  • Busk, Pierce (3:12): MP3
  • Plight (8:28): MP3

from Unofficial Word, Galloping Dog Press, 1988:

  • Unofficial Word (11:49): MP3

Rockdrill 12

Dead Letter Office, Iain Sinclair: Poems 1970–2004
Published by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Opic Nerve for Birkbeck College, 2005.
Produced by Colin Still. Used with the permission of Colin Still.

  1. Hungry Ghost (3:05): MP3
  2. Rumour, in Advance, the Fact (0:51): MP3
  3. Oak Chrome (0:52): MP3
  4. Red Chamber, Yellow Top (0:51): MP3
  5. Mother Glacier (0:51): MP3
  6. Mountain Dreams Again (1:10): MP3
  7. I Want It (1:43): MP3
  8. Big Meal (1:15): MP3
  9. Death Is (1:22): MP3
  10. If the Bodies (1:17): MP3
  11. West, Light (6:28): MP3
  12. Slade & the Tyrannicides (16:31): MP3
  13. German Bite (0:39): MP3
  14. Street Detail (0:02): MP3
  15. Autistic Poses (0:51): MP3
  16. Hurricane Drummers (1:42): MP3
  17. In the Latest Proof of Ackroyd (0:30): MP3
  18. Kristallnacht (1:06): MP3
  19. Scraps & Green Heaps (1:19): MP3
  20. Nil by Mouth (1:11): MP3
  21. The Carnal Gate (1:52): MP3
  22. Read my Lisp (1:03): MP3
  23. Bunhill Fields (1:11): MP3
  24. The Exhibition I Didn't Hold (0:44): MP3
  25. The Wolrd's Oldest Comedian (1:59): MP3
  26. Continuous Sky (4:00): MP3
  27. The Lightening Ball (6:35): MP3
  28. Body Tourism (1:32): MP3
  29. Yesterday's Money (1:14): MP3
  30. Mamento Mori (1:39): MP3
  31. Beckton Alp (5:47): MP3

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Xing the Line: OUT OF EVERYWHERE 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK


Edited by Emily Critchley / Published by Reality Street
Recorded by Collin Still, August 6, 2016

  1. Jennifer Cooke (15:43) MP3
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