Tom Raworth

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

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

PoemTalk #50, discussing Tom Raworth's "Errory," February 28, 2012

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

Reading for the MFA Reading Series, Boise State University, Boise, February 22, 2013

1. Introduction (1:21): MP3
2. The Third Retainer (0:43): MP3
3. Ah, the Poetry of Miss Parrot's Feet Demonstrating the Tango (0:46): MP3
4. You've Ruined My Evening, You've Ruined My Life (1:10): MP3
5. Shoes (0:42): MP3
6. You Can't Get Out (0:18): MP3
7. Euro'd (1:09): MP3
8. Magnetic Water(1:11): MP3
9. Human Warmth (0:21): MP3
10. 14-Line Poems (1:18): MP3
11. Wit Wither (1:54): MP3
12. There Are Few People Who Put on Any Clothes (2:03): MP3
13. Note (0:25): MP3
14. Noise (0:54): MP3
15. Why I Am Not a Mathematician (0:31): MP3
16. Drone of Your Own (0:15): MP3
17. Proud Hunters of Images (0:22): MP3
18. Coffee, Tobacco, Hemp (0:11): MP3
19. Where Does Light Speed? (0:13): MP3
20. Sound Pound (0:10): MP3
21. Sharpening Aggrevation of Perception (0:20): MP3
22. Hidden Key Right From Banana Jar by Fanny Fur Coda (0:56): MP3
23. Close the Loop on This (0:21): MP3
24. New E.U. Plan to Stop Banks Failing (0:28): MP3
25. Olympic Games (0:33): MP3
26. Asyndeton (0:29): MP3
27. Spear Shaking (1:58): MP3
28. Intellectual Compost 6 (0:34): MP3
29. How to Patronize a Poem (1:38): MP3
30. Ice Quakes (0:33): MP3
31. Rolled Homogenous Armour (0:22): MP3
32. Maul (0:26): MP3

• Complete reading (27:47): 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 other.

"Three Minutes for Ed"

Video by Stephen Fowler

• Video mirror: Media.SAS server

Reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, October 14, 2012

1. Opening Remarks (4:43): MP3
2. The Beckening Harpoon (1:49): MP3
3. In Bong of Bell (0:35): MP3
4. In Memoriam of Wittgenstein (0:13): MP3
5. Firewall (5:50): MP3
6. Transports of Delight (0:30): MP3
7. Flat one (0:16): MP3
8. Tv (0:10): MP3
9. Taxonomy (0:10): MP3
10. North West Ohio(0:12): MP3
11. Los Angeles (0:06): MP3
12. Mexico (0:14): MP3
13. Emptily (5:58): MP3
14. There are Few People Who Put on any Clothes Staring it (3:16): MP3
15. Down the Turn Spike (1:48): MP3
16. Does the Wave Left Tune Me (5:58): MP3
17. For Mountains and Gardens (0:32): MP3
18. Creeking Candle (0:15): MP3
19. Peanut Galleria (0:14): MP3
20. Title Forgotten (0:26): MP3
21. Why I’m Not a Mathamatician (1:07): MP3
22. Leads to Disaster (0:30): MP3
23. Drone of Your Own (0:21): MP3
24. Close the Loop on This (0:43): MP3
25. The Stride the Palindrome (0:39): MP3
26. Hidden Key Right from Banana Jar by Fanny Fur Coda (1:00): MP3
27. Where Does Light Speen (0:20): MP3
28. Spear Shaking (2:10): MP3
29. Ivers Fall (0:44): MP3
30. Jitan (1:26): MP3
31. Got Me (0:32): MP3
32. You’ve Ruined my Evening You’ve Ruined my Life (1:06): MP3
33. Olympic Games (0:42): MP3
34. War or Wick (0:28): MP3
35. Coffee Tobacco Hemp (0:37): MP3

• Complete recording (45:56): MP3

Reading at The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, London, April 18, 2012

With Andrei Codrescu, Gunnar Harding, and Anselm Hollo.

Video by Stephen Fowler

• Video mirror: Media.SAS server

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Tom: The Night the Lights Went On, May 14, 2008, London

Tom Raworth
Tom, Maggie O'Sullivan and I had spent the day walking around London & Tom pointed out the place his father worked and also the place where he had one of his first jobs. When Tom was young, during the Blitz, the city was blacked out at night. But Tom remermbered a night, at the end of the war, when crowds gathered in the streets and the lights went on. 1945.
(mp4, 24 sec., 9.2 mb)

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

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

Reading at Steel Bar, October 13, 2001

1. Intellectual Compost 3 (1:02): MP3
2. Intellectual Compost 4 (0:42): MP3
3. Sixty Words I've Never Used Before (1:50): MP3
4. Meadow (7:48): MP3
5. Unable to Create Carrier (0:56): MP3
6. Crowded with Otiose Passengers (0:50): MP3
7. No Hard Feelings (0:32): MP3
8. Ingot We Trust (0:31): MP3
9. Shown (0:28): MP3
10. Looking for Language (0:26): MP3
11. Autumn Problem (0:17): MP3
12. Drinking Electricity (1:22): MP3
13. Translation (3:46): MP3
14. Song and Closing Remarks (3:12): MP3

• Complete reading (23:53): 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

Reading for the Segue Series at Double Happiness, March 10, 2001

1. Introduction (1:28): MP3
2. Firewall (5:52): MP3
3. Unable to Create (0:48): MP3
4. Crowded with Otiose Passengers (0:47): MP3
5. No Hard Feelings (0:34): MP3
6. Rhodopsin Blues (0:32): MP3
7. Shown (0:26): MP3
8. Ingot We Trust (0:29): MP3
9. List (1:08): MP3
10. Suffering from a Painful, Trapped Mood (0:43): MP3
11. Translations (2:38): MP3
12. Closing Remarks (3:10): MP3

• Complete recording (19:00): MP3

Beyond the Page Series: Reading at the Faultline Theater, San Diego, California, February 27, 2000

Video

1. Introduction (1:33): MP3
2. Looking for Language (0:23): MP3
3. The Happening (0:27): MP3
4. Proust from the Bottom Up (1:27): MP3
5. Firewall (6:22): MP3
6. 14-Line Poems (0:52): MP3
7. 60 Words I've Never Used Before (1:57): MP3
8. Jungle Book (1:00): MP3
9. Pessimist (0:11): MP3
10. The Arsenic-Proof Baby (0:30): MP3
11. No + On = Noon (1:54): MP3
12. Situations (0:17): MP3
13. Just Because My Teeth Are Pearly (0:21): MP3
14. Stag Skull Mounted (6:15): MP3
15. Cat Van Cat (1:00): MP3
16. Differences in Common (0:29): MP3
17. No Hard Feelings (0:32): MP3
18. Rhodopsin Blues (0:33): MP3
19. Shown (0:26): MP3
20. Pyrophoric (0:28): MP3
21. Ingot We Trust (0:25): MP3
22. No Music (0:27): MP3
23. Music Box (1:53): MP3
    
• Complete reading (33:51): MP3

• Curated by Stephen Cope and Joe Ross, courtesy of Joel Kuszai

Reading at UCSD, 2000

Complete reading (21:38): RealAudio

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

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

At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, November 17, 1998

1. Intellectual Compost 4 (0:42): MP3
2. Death to a Star (2:40): MP3
3. 60 Words I've Never Used Before (1:52): MP3
4. Meadow (8:31): MP3
5. Unable to Create Carrier (0:48): MP3
6. Crowded with Otiose Passengers (0:49): MP3
7. Cat Van Cat (1:00): MP3
8. Differences in Common (0:31): MP3
9. No Hard Feelings (0:34): MP3
10. Rhodopsin Blues (0:34): MP3
11. Shown (0:25): MP3
12. Pyrophoric (0:30): MP3
13. Ingot We Trust (0:35): MP3

Complete reading (20:33): MP3

Tom Raworth and Steve Nelson-Raney, Alternating Currents Live, March 01, 1998

1. Part 1 (03:47): MP3
2. Part 2 (01:49): MP3
3. Part 3 (07:16): MP3
4. Part 4 (05:59): MP3
5. Part 5, With Music Box (01:41): MP3
6. Part 6 (02:37): MP3
7. Steve Nelson-Raney Solo (05:41): MP3
   

At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, October 18, 1997

Complete reading (38:34): MP3

Reading for the Segue Series at HERE, New York, October 4, 1997

1. introduction by Elizabeth Fodawski(1:42): MP3
2. Out of a Sudden and Firewall (5:58): MP3
3. Meadow (7:25): MP3
4. Unable to Create Carrier (2:17): MP3
• Complete recording (19:40), include intro to series by James Sheerry: MP3

Reading, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's, NYC, introduced by Ed Friedman, 1995

Complete recording (29:12): MP3

Courtesy of Simon Pettet

Reading at Stockbridge, MA, March 1995

With Clark Coolidge (drums) and David Meltzer (guitar); introduction by Michael Gizzi.

Begins with reading of Common Sense (Zephyrus Image, 1976) (26:03): MP3

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

Complete recording (24:14): MP3

Interview with George Drury, Strong Coffee, Chicago, February 10, 1993

Complete recording (52:45): MP3

Big Slippers On: Fourteen Poems by Tom Raworth, October 20, 1993

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


Courtesy of Simon Pettet

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

1. Reading from His Book "Eternal Sections", Part 1 (9:26): MP3
2. Reading from His Book "Eternal Sections", Part 2 (10:07): MP3
3. Reading from His Book "Eternal Sections", Part 3 (10:10): MP3
4. Reading from His Book "Eternal Sections", Part 4 (10:01): MP3

Complete reading (40:12): 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

Reading, May 1988

Courtesy of Simon Pettet.

• Part 1 (14:40): MP3
• Part 2 (16:34): MP3
• Part 3 (29:44): MP3

March 4, 1988 at the Allentown Community Center, Buffalo

1. Waiting (0:59): MP3
2. Six Days (6:28): MP3
3. The Moon Upo-on the Waters (2:40): MP3
4. Situations (0:39): MP3
5. Songs of the Depression (1:18): MP3
6. The West (0:18): MP3
7. West Wind (1:56): MP3
8. New Moon (7:38): MP3
9. Sentenced to Death (27:41): MP3

Complete recording (53:14): MP3


Reading at the New College, March 1, 1985

1. Incomplete Poem (3:02): MP3
2. Male (0:42): MP3
3. Living Under the Divine Right of Sherriffs (0:25): MP3
4. Only a Rubber Stamp in Time (0:25): MP3
5. No Idea at All (0:25): MP3
6. English Opium (0:35): MP3
7. Sinnerfold (0:16): MP3
8. In Bong of Bell (0:29): MP3
9. Level (1:13): MP3
10. August the 1st, 1982 (0:16): MP3
11. Electronic Atmosphere (0:31): MP3
12. Just Like Old Times (0:18): MP3
13. V (0:14): MP3
14. Working in China (0:10): MP3
15. Forty Winks Solid on Broadway (0:09): MP3
16. Adiabatic Albedo (0:25): MP3
17. Nothing (0:39): MP3
18. Juice (1:52): MP3
19. From the Rainbow Tablets (2:33): MP3
20. Descriptive Verse (1:02): MP3
21. Tractor Parts (0:55): MP3
22. Perpertual Motion (2:05): MP3
23. Stag Skull Mounted (5:50): MP3
24. Into the Living Sea (0:22): MP3
25. The Moon U-poon the Waters (0:59): MP3
26. Reverse Map (0:32): MP3
27. Who Would True Valor See (1:13): MP3
28. The Corpse in My Head (1:17): MP3
29. Purely Personal (0:47): MP3
30. Slight Verse (0:12): MP3
31. Entry (0:26): MP3
32. Fin de Nuit (0:14): MP3
33. Railway Express (0:16): MP3
34. Blue Pig (0:10): MP3
35. Late Night Poems (0:33): MP3
36. Shooting Sticks (0:18): MP3
• Complete reading (33:31): MP3

Reading at St. Marks, New York, April 7, 1982

Reading "Little Trace Remains of Emmett Miller", "The Big Green Day", Haiku 1-366, The Relationship 368-584. Introduced by Ted Berrigan.

• Side A (44:46): MP3
• Side B (34:45): MP3

Courtesy of Simon Pettet

SUNY-Buffalo, April 15, 1982

1. Introduction by Robert Creeley (6:56): MP3
2. Face (13:24): MP3
1. Face (6:21): MP3
2. In Mind (4:19): MP3
3. In Motion (1:58): MP3
3. Writing (17:43): MP3
4. A Random Into the End (5:09): MP3
5. Catacaustic, Part 1 (8:15): MP3
6. Catacaustic, Part 2 (12:29): MP3

Complete recording (1:11:49): MP3

Presentation at New College; recorded November 12, 1981

• Complete recording (1:22:34): MP3

Recordings courtesy of David Levi Strauss.

Rockdrill 5: Writing, Tom Raworth Poems 1966-1979

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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

"Errory" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 50.

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

Also of Interest:

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

Maggie O'Sullivan reads "Gaslight" by Tom Raworth

Tom Raworth on PennSound Daily:

• April 1, 2009: "Tom Raworth: Ace, Poems 1966-1979 (Rockdrill 4)"

Tom Raworth PennSound page first edited by Kun Jia.

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