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
PoemTalk Podcast #50, discussing Tom Raworth's "Errory," February 28, 2012
Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2 .
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.
Drinking Electricity (1:42): MP3
Anniversary (1:08): MP3
My Face is My Own, I Thought (0:48): MP3
Morning (0:30): MP3
For Paul Dorn (0:37): MP3
Six Days (6:39): MP3
Ah the Poetry of Miss Parrot's Feet Demonstating the Tango
(0:56): MP3
Hot Day at the Races (0:54): MP3
Got Me (0:34): MP3
Shoes (0:45): MP3
Gitanes (1:35): MP3
Introduction (0:22): MP3
Oratorio (0:29): MP3
Variations (0:23): MP3
Adagio (0:15): MP3
Saraband (0:20): MP3
Nocturne (0:21): MP3
Traveling (0:45): MP3
South America (1:18): MP3
Come Back, Come Back, O Glittering and White! (0:32): MP3
The Stroboscopic Forest Light Plays (0:17): MP3
Your Number is Up (0:12): MP3
Reference (0:13): MP3
Energy Gap (0:18): MP3
Toxophily (0:21): MP3
Surgical Names: John (0:10): MP3
Taxonomy (0:12): MP3
Western World (0:32): MP3
I Better Put a Pattern around This if They're Going to Call
it a Poem (0:18): MP3
The Century Doesn't Want to be 72 (0:11): MP3
University Days (0:11): MP3
Canvas (0:14): MP3
The Only Sound in Dallas was the Mexican Beans Jumping (0:26): MP3
A Blue Vacuum Cleaner (0:20): MP3
The Beckoning Harpoon (0:14): MP3
The Conscience of a Conservative (4:04): MP3
Ulysses: or Trotsky's Death (0:26): MP3
The Drama Review (0:57): MP3
Funeral Cards (1:18): MP3
Beautiful Habit (1:57): MP3
Perpetual Motion (1:43): MP3
Horse Power (2:38): MP3
Coda: Songs of the Mask (0:32): MP3
Ace (13:48): MP3
Piety (0:16): MP3
Skiey (0:28): MP3
Sped on Alone (0:14): MP3
Magnetic Water (1:22): MP3
Pretense (7:53): MP3
Rockdrill 5 : Writing , Tom Raworth Poems 1966-1979
Writing (32:26): MP3
Just How Intelligent Is the Pilot Whale? (0:18): MP3
Damn the Neutrinos! (0:12): MP3
Quillets (0:13): MP3
Making Marks (1:45): MP3
'towards finding out the truth' (0:21): MP3
'reversals of performance levels' (0:26): MP3
'one precious fragment' (0:21): MP3
'forced to act' (0:20): MP3
'fear that increases' (0:21): MP3
'attitudes do not necessarily change' (0:20): MP3
'minarets were built singly' (0:23): MP3
'imperative is the index' (0:22): MP3
'apart from supporting' (0:23): MP3
'a very strange kind of intervention' (0:22): MP3
'a record of attractions' (0:22): MP3
'in a haze of nerve gas' (0:24): MP3
'passing near the black hole' (0:21): MP3
'he hated to get wet' (0:19): MP3
'gazing without expression' (0:19): MP3
'isolated in contrast' (0:19): MP3
Emptily (5:23): MP3
Wit Wither (2:06): MP3
Errory (2:08): MP3
Dark Senses (2:37): MP3
Out of a Sudden (0:40): MP3
Intellectual Compost 3 (0:42): MP3
Unable to Create Carrier (0:53): MP3
Crowded with Otiose Passengers (0:48): MP3
Cat Van Cat (0:59): MP3
Pyrophoric (0:32): MP3
For John Gian (1:41): MP3
Caller (3:09): MP3
Presentation at New College; recorded November 12, 1981.
Recordings courtesy of David Levi Strauss
complete recording (1:22:34): MP3
SUNY-Buffalo, April 15, 1982, introduction by Robert Creeley
(1:11:49): MP3
Reading at the New College, March 1, 1985
incomplete reading (33:31): MP3
March 4, 1988 at the Allentown Community Center, Buffalo
(53:14): MP3
Reading from Tottering State and other works for WFMT Radio, Chicago, IL, March 8, 1989
Produced by Lois Baum and George Drury
complete recording (56:17): MP3
Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn , New York, March 24, 1989
Complete Reading (40:12): MP3
Reading from His Book "Eternal Sections", Part 1 (9:26): MP3
Reading from His Book "Eternal Sections", Part 2 (10:07): MP3
Reading from His Book "Eternal Sections", Part 3 (10:10): MP3
Reading from His Book "Eternal Sections", Part 4 (10:01): MP3
Big Slippers On: Fourteen Poems by Tom Raworth
Cassette recording originally published by Ulli Freer at Microbrigade.
Vein (5:24): MP3
Wit Wither (1:54): MP3
Blue Screen (6:39): MP3
All Fours (1:59): MP3
Gaslight (1:00): MP3
Proust (1:19): MP3
Catacoustics (5:44): MP3
Belt (0:06): MP3
Poe (0:05): MP3
Attitude (0:02): MP3
What's This All About (0:05): MP3
Los Angeles (0:14): MP3
Infinite Variety Stales (0:25): MP3
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 SUNY-Buffalo , October 9, 1991
Not Under Holly or Green Boughs (for David and Nicole) (1:19): MP3
The Blood Think, and Pauses (0:48): MP3
September Morning (0:26): MP3
The Third Retainer (0:29): MP3
from All Fours (1:56): MP3
from Eternal Sections (6:35): MP3
Out of the Pictures (4:00): MP3
from Survival (5:09): MP3
from The Vein (4:57): MP3
Complete reading (27:28): MP3
Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn , February 25, 1995
complete recording (24:14): MP3
introduction by Elizabeth Fodawski(1:42): MP3
Out of a Sudden and Firewall (5:58): MP3
Meadow (7:25): MP3
Unable to Create Carrier (2:17): MP3
complete recording (19:40), include intro to series by James Sheerry: MP3
Tom Raworth and Steve Nelson-Raney, Alternating Currents Live, March 01, 1998
Part 1 (03:47): MP3
Part 2 (01:49): MP3
Part 3 (07:16): MP3
Part 4 (05:59): MP3
Part 5, With Music Box (01:41): MP3
Part 6 (02:37): MP3
Steve Nelson-Raney Solo (05:41): MP3
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
complete recording (19:00): MP3
Lytle Shaw's Introduction (1:51): MP3
Just How Intelligent is the Pilot Whale? (1:41): MP3
Sleepy Villa (1:00): MP3
Transfer Track (0:22): MP3
Sleep, Perch (0:21): MP3
Remember When People Were Tortured? (0:22): MP3
Intellectual Compost 3 (0:36): MP3
Firewall (5:43): MP3
Intellectual Compost 4 (1:02): MP3
Tricking Electricity (1:23): MP3
Translation (3:41): MP3
Merchandising Slogans (Visual-auditory Notebook) (with xylophone postlude) (2:48): MP3
Complete Reading (22:17): MP3
Reading at Steel Bar , October 13, 2001
Complete Reading (23:53): MP3
Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, March 11, 2006
Introduction by Charles Borkhuis (2:23): MP3
Last Words (Peter Porter Envoi ) (1:30): MP3
Systems Disruption (0:26): MP3
Emptily (5:28): MP3
The Mosquito and the Moon (3:21): MP3
Death to a Star (22:22): MP3
Caller (7:21): MP3
War on Terror (instrumental rendering) (1:00): MP3
Complete reading (27:45): MP3
Kelly Writers House, March 13, 2006
Introduction by Charles Bernstein (1:10): MP3
Listen Up (1:25): MP3 , [ text ]
Reference (0:14): MP3
Logbook, page 106 (1:17): MP3
Logbook, page 291 (1:10): MP3
Logbook, page 298 (1:01): MP3
Logbook, page 301 (1:02): MP3
Logbook, page 345 (0:59): MP3
Logbook, page 356 (1:14): MP3
Logbook, page 372 (1:18): MP3
Logbook, page 399 (1:19): MP3
Logbook, page 444 (1:06): MP3
Logbook, page 453 (0:52): MP3
Writing (35:11): MP3
Caller (7:29): MP3
Poem Poem (instrumental rendering) (1:40): MP3
Complete reading (1:00:11): MP3
Reading at The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, London, April 18, 2012
with Andrei Codrescu, Gunnar Harding, and Anslem Hollo
Video by Stephen Fowler
Watch on Media.sas
Complete Recording (45:56): MP3
Reading as part of the tribute to Ed Dorn at the London Review of Books, November 29, 2012
with Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, Elaine Feinstein, Tom Pickard, Justin Katko and others
"Three Minutes for Ed"
Video by Stephen Fowler
Watch on Media.sas
complete reading (27:47): MP3
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