Tom Raworth Collected Poems

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"The first collection of Tom RaworthÆs poetry available in one volume, this work will change the way British poetry, in particular the modernist tradition, is seen. Part tragedy, part comedy, these poems reflect RaworthÆs view of lifeÆs fated inevitabilities. His sense of modern urgency plays against a similar sense of readiness in the spirit of Shelley and Byron. His eager verse will both challenge and fascinate those who wish to understand the value of British poetry."

Acknowledgments

xviii

From The Relation Ship (1966)

Waiting

(1)

Not Under Holly or Green Boughs

(1)

Sing

(1)

Bitter Moon Dances

(1)

Anniversary

(1)

The Blood Thinks, and Pauses

(1)

You Were Wearing Blue

(1)

Wedding Day

(1)

The Others

(1)

September Morning

(1)

My Face is My Own, I Thought

(1)

Morning

(1)

But I Don' Love

(1)

Notebook

(2)

She Said Bread, Fred

(1)

The Third Retainer

(1)

News

(1)

Three

(1)

I Mean

(1)

November 1964

(1)

There Are Lime-trees in Leaf on the Promenade

(2)

I Die of Thirst beside the Fountain

(1)

Recognition

(1)

Down There on a Visit

(1)

The Dublin Zurich Express

(1)

Sliding Two Mirrors

(1)

For Paul Dorn

(1)

Six Days

(4)

The Wall

(1)

A Pressed Flower

(1)

From The Big Green Day (1968)

Who is Hannibal's Descendant, Leading his Elephants against the Tanks?

(1)

The Blown Agent

(1)

Ah the Poetry of Miss Parrot's Feet Demonstrating the Tango

(1)

Hot Day at the Races

(1)

North Africa Breakdown

(1)

You've Ruined My Evening/You've Ruined My Life

(1)

Southland

(1)

Now the Pink Stripes

(1)

Don't Follow My Toes

(1)

Wham! -- The Race Begins

(1)

Collapsible

(1)

Got Me

(1)

Shoes

(1)

The Lonely Life of the Lighthouse Keeper

(1)

Inner Space

(1)

Love Poem

(2)

Sky

(1)

Continuation

(1)

These Are Not Catastrophes I Went Out of my Way to Look for

(1)

What Is the Question

(1)

Going Away Poem for Lee Harwood

(1)

Gitanes

(1)

Georgia on my Mind

(1)

Tom Tom

(1)

From Nicht Wahr, Rosie? (1979)

Introduction

(1)

Oratorio

(1)

Variations

(1)

Adagio

(1)

Saraband

(1)

Nocturne

(1)

El Barco del Abismo

(1)

The Sure Grip of a Cats Paw

(1)

The Explosive Harpoon

(1)

Gibil -- Burn the Wizard and the Witch!

(1)

Kew: The Museum or Library of Plants

(1)

Joseph Saves his Brothers for Ever

(1)

The University of Essex

(2)

Extract from the Mexican Government Book of Home Cooking

(1)

The Silken Cord December 4

(1)

The Needle

(1)

The Worst Poem

(1)

Going to the Zoo

(1)

The Phone Keeps Ringing

(1)

Reverse in through Driving

(1)

The Window Display

(1)

There are Forty-seven Pictures of her Walking out of Central High

(1)

How Can You Throw It All Away on this Ragtime?

(1)

From Lion Lion (1970)

Lion Lion

(1)

Lemures

(1)

Travelling

(1)

First Man? On Mars

(1)

Jungle Book

(1)

The Plaza and the Flaming Orange Trees

(1)

Dear Sir, Flying Saucers! Flying Saucers! Flying Saucers!

(1)

Strike, General

(1)

Unease

(1)

Provence I

(1)

Provence II

(1)

Provence III

(1)

Provence IV

(1)

The Lemon Tree

(1)

King of the Snow

(1)

Metaphysics of Magicians

(1)

South America

(1)

The `Speed' Novel

(1)

Floral Luncheons and Service Dinners

(1)

Come Back, Come Back, O Glittering and White!

(1)

Claudette Colbert by Billy Wilder

(1)

You Can Stroke People with Words

(1)

On the Third Floor and a Half

(1)

Chancer

(1)

Venceremos

(1)

From Haiku (1968)

My Son the Haiku Writer

(2)

From Moving (1971)

The Moon Upoon the Waters

(1)

Reverse Map

(1)

Who Would True Valour See

(1)

He Called it Greenland to Encourage Settlement

(1)

Live from Athens, He Explains

(1)

The Corpse in my Head

(1)

Helpston £9,850 Stone Built Residence

(1)

The Stroboscopic Forest Light Plays

(1)

Purely Personal

(1)

Notes of the Song/Ain't Gonna Stay in This Town Long

(1)

Entry

(1)

Train de Nuit

(1)

Railway Express

(1)

Blue Pig

(1)

Four Late Night Poems

(1)

Shooting Sticks

(1)

The Title: Hear It

(1)

Good Morning

(1)

Your Number is Up

(1)

The White Lady

(1)

Lie Still Lie Still

(1)

You Can't Get Out

(1)

Stag Skull Mounted

(5)

The Corner

(1)

Greetings from Your Little Comrade

(1)

Moonshine

(1)

List

(1)

Writers/Riders/Rioters

(1)

Reference

(1)

And His Share of the Loot, if I Know Shorty Fleming

(1)

From Logbook (1976)

Logbook

(6)

From Act (1973)

Nine Poems

(3)

Energy Gap

(1)

A Fall in French Furniture

(1)

Toxophily

(1)

Surgical Names: John

(1)

One Two Three

(1)

Surgical Names: Joe

(1)

We Must Get to the

(1)

Star Rats

(1)

Surgical Names: Frank

(1)

Can You Hear Me, Mother?

(1)

Flat One

(1)

Flat Two

(1)

Surgical Names: Ted

(1)

Taxonomy

(1)

T.V.

(1)

Sailor Song

(1)

Surgical Names: Tom

(1)

No + On = Noon (except when reflected)

(1)

This Morning

(1)

The Title

(1)

Songs of the Depression

100

(1)

Just Another Whistle Stop

101

(1)

Out of my Mine

101

(1)

Gaslight

101

(1)

Records

102

(1)

7/8 of the Real

103

(1)

T.V. Again

103

(1)

Homily

104

(1)

Love and Pieces

104

(1)

Wandering

105

(1)

Misnomer

106

(1)

Situations

106

(1)

Poetry Now

106

(1)

Dead End

107

(1)

Old Poem's

107

(1)

108

(1)

Bounce

108

(1)

Three

109

(1)

Two Together

110

(1)

Patch Patch Patch

110

(1)

Future Models May Have Infra-red Sensors

111

(1)

Delivery Instruction

112

(1)

Western World

113

(1)

Transports of Delight

114

(1)

(Untitled)

114

(1)

End Again

115

(1)

Deal Another Hand

115

(2)

Mirror Mirror on the Wheel

117

(1)

Boing

117

(1)

I Better Put a Pattern around This if They're Going to Call it a Poem

118

(1)

Could You Love a Fish? or Would You Rather Swing on a Star?

118

(1)

From From the Hungarian (1973)

Wandergut

119

(1)

Sally to See You, Tacitus

119

(1)

At Maximum Zero

120

(1)

A Colt Has Ate Most

120

(1)

Starlight Utilities

121

(1)

Start and Sit

121

(1)

A Colt Is Most

122

(1)

Utility Starlight

122

(1)

Celtic Mists

123

(1)

What Do You Say?

123

(1)

A Most Cold

124

(1)

Solitary Utahsitis

124

(1)

Who Dun It

125

(1)

What Nougat

125

(1)

Shall the Cup You Sit at

126

(1)

What You Got?

126

(1)

Take a Dog

127

(1)

How Cold is Most

127

(1)

From Heavy Light (1984)

Sacred Heart

128

(1)

Belt

128

(1)

Que Bonitos Ochos Tienes!

128

(1)

Get It While You Can

129

(1)

Theye

129

(1)

Chicago

130

(1)

Mama

130

(1)

Peoples

130

(1)

Self

130

(1)

Fits

131

(1)

Box in the Trunk

131

(1)

Gravity is Caused by Spring

131

(1)

Back when the Music said `No Hurry'

131

(1)

The Generous Television

132

(1)

Five

132

(1)

Steaming Snow

132

(1)

Every One Different

132

(1)

In Which Rhythm Makes a Stand

133

(1)

Windmill Poem Association

133

(1)

Bleecker Street

133

(1)

134

(1)

The Century Doesn't Want to be 72

134

(1)

Motiveless

134

(1)

Poemian

135

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

135

(1)

The Pressure that Causes Mistakes

135

(1)

What Is the Shadow's Pentip Writing?

135

(1)

From the Window

136

(1)

University Days

136

(1)

Canvas

136

(1)

Wouldn't it be Funny if She Just Walked in

137

(1)

You Need It -- We Rent It

137

(1)

Be Last

137

(1)

Murder Stone

137

(1)

Tell Me What This is About

138

(1)

Home for the Time

138

(1)

Attitude Must be Interesting

138

(1)

Read Me

138

(1)

From Back to Nature (1972)

Uncertain Steps

138

(1)

News

139

(1)

From Time to Time in the Past

139

(1)

Mixed

140

(1)

One Evening

140

(1)

Onset

141

(1)

Everything `Under' the Sun

141

(1)

Som

142

(1)

Birthday

142

(1)

No Peace/Black Holes/Earth Cracks

142

(1)

Music Box

142

(1)

Laid Waste by the Luftwaffe

143

(1)

Lined Paper

143

(1)

Just We Two

143

(1)

Philosophical Moments

144

(1)

Lunch is Ready

144

(1)

The Ethical Artist

145

(1)

Along Came Bill by P.G. Wodehouse

145

(1)

From Lazy Left Hand (1986)

Infinite Variety Stales

145

(1)

Sunday Draught

146

(1)

Describing the In on the Crest of a Wave

146

(2)

New Year

148

(1)

Northwest Ohio

148

(1)

The Only Sound in Dallas was the Mexican Beans Jumping

148

(1)

Los Angeles

149

(1)

Mexico

149

(1)

The City

149

(1)

On my Holidays

149

(1)

Pessimist

150

(1)

The Resistance Changes

150

(1)

Just Because my Teeth are Pearly

150

(1)

Tribal God

150

(1)

Not a Step Do I Stir until that Cat's Back to its Colour

151

(1)

Out Takes

151

(3)

Information Film

154

(1)

Knowledge

154

(1)

A Blue Vacuum Cleaner

155

(1)

Cross Divide

156

(1)

A More Refined Taste

156

(1)

The Beckoning Harpoon

157

(1)

From Four Door Guide (1979)

Dormitory Life

157

(1)

From The Mask (1976)

The Conscience of a Conservative

158

(6)

Ulysses: or Trotsky's Death

164

(1)

The Drama Review

165

(2)

The Bank of Wood County

167

(2)

Funeral Cards

169

(3)

Beautiful Habit

172

(6)

Perpetual Motion

178

(4)

Mr & Mrs Grief

182

(3)

Horse Power

185

(6)

For Tom Clark

191

(4)

Formal 1

195

(1)

Formal 2

196

(1)

Formal 3

197

(1)

Formal 4

197

(1)

Formal 5

198

(1)

Formal 6

199

(1)

Formal 7

199

(1)

Coda: Songs of the Mask

200

(1)

From Ace (1974)

Ace

201

(25)

From Bolivia: Another End of Ace (1975)

Bolivia: Another End of Ace

226

(3)

From Four Door Guide (1979)

Message Bottle

229

(4)

From Cloister (1975)

Piety

233

(1)

Skiey

233

(1)

Memories of Sadness

233

(1)

Late Fall

234

(1)

Clone Odour

234

(1)

Tentences

235

(1)

Sped on Alone

235

(1)

Eurode

235

(2)

That More Simple Natural Time Tone Distortion

237

(4)

From Common Sense (1976)

I am Specious, Herr Kommandant

241

(1)

See the World's Greatest Animal Trainers Risk their Lives

241

(1)

You've Been Watching Pittsburgh

241

(1)

A Silver Bullet Made from a Crucifix

242

(1)

Substances

242

(1)

Some Other Bliss

243

(1)

Gracious Living `Tara'

243

(1)

Everything I Have is Yours

244

(1)

Magnetic Water

244

(1)

Lenin's Minutemen

245

(1)

Finance Available

246

(1)

Retrieval

247

(1)

Pratheoryctice

247

(1)

From Four Door Guide (1979)

Pretense

248

(4)

Proust from the Bottom Up

252

(1)

From Writing (1982)

Writing

252

(60)

From Sky Tails (1978)

Shadows

312

(1)

England

312

(1)

European Teeth

312

(1)

Just How Intelligent Is the Pilot Whale?

313

(1)

Reconstructed by Scan

313

(1)

Sonorized

313

(1)

Sky Tails Putschist

314

(1)

Nothing to the Power of Language

314

(1)

Mordant Fleas

315

(1)

Iron Broom

315

(1)

Sleepy Villa

316

(1)

Rome by Anonymous

317

(1)

Recorded History

318

(1)

Transfer Track

318

(1)

Sleep, Perch

319

(1)

No Comment

319

(1)

The Gravediggers' Knees

319

(1)

Damn the Neutrinos!

320

(1)

Indian Giver

320

(1)

From Catacoustics (1996)

Catacoustics

321

(27)

From Levre de Poche (1983)

The West

348

(1)

No Idea at All

348

(1)

English Opium

349

(1)

Semaphore

349

(1)

In Bong of Bell

350

(1)

Level

350

(1)

In Memoriam L. Wittgenstein

351

(1)

August 1st 1982

352

(1)

Electronic Atmospheres

352

(1)

Just like Old Times

352

(1)

Roman A Clay

353

(1)

``V''

353

(1)

Working in China

353

(1)

40 Winks Solid on Broadway

354

(1)

Adiabatic Albedo

354

(1)

From Tottering State (1984)

West Wind

355

(20)

From Visible Shivers (1987)

No Hard Feelings

375

(1)

The Serpent

375

(1)

No Light No Tunnel

376

(1)

Living under the Divine Right of Sheriffs

376

(1)

Quillets

376

(1)

Descriptive Verse

377

(1)

Like a Simile

377

(1)

Human Warmth

377

(1)

The Scent of Cars

378

(1)

Creaking

378

(1)

Remember when People were Tortured

378

(1)

Juice

379

(4)

Making Marks

383

(2)

Nothing

385

(1)

Sentenced He Gives a Shape

386

(14)

From Eternal Sections (1993)

Eternal Sections

400

(38)

From Clean & Well Lit (1996)

Out of the Picture

438

(7)

Rainbow

445

(1)

From The Vein (1991)

The Vein

446

(9)

From Clean & Well Lit (1996)

Intellectual Compost

455

(1)

From All Fours (1991)

All Fours

456

(2)

From Clean & Well Lit (1996)

Coal Grass Blood Night Emerald

458

(1)

From Survival (1994)

Survival

459

(9)

From Clean & Well Lit (1996)

Rainbow 2

468

(1)

From Blue Screen (1992)

Blue Screen

469

(11)

From Clean & Well Lit (1996)

Intellectual Compost 2

480

(1)

From Emptily (1994)

Emptily

481

(11)

From Clean & Well Lit (1996)

Defective Definitions

492

(1)

From The Mosquito and the Moon (1994)

The Mosquito and the Moon

493

(5)

From Silent Rows (1995)

Name Unknown

498

(4)

From Muted Hawks (1995)

Muted Hawks

502

(2)

From Clean & Well Lit (1996)

Wit Wither

504

(3)

Errory

507

(2)

Dark Senses

509

(2)

Out of a Sudden

511

(1)

Previously unpublished (1990s)

Intellectual Compost 3

512

(1)

From Etruscan Reader V (1996)

Firewall

513

(7)

From Meadow (1999)

Intellectual Compost 4

520

(1)

Death to a Star

521

(3)

Sixty Words I've Never Used Before

524

(3)

Meadow

527

(12)

Unable to Create Carrier

539

(1)

Crowded with Otiose Passengers

540

(1)

Cat Van Cat

541

(1)

Differences in Common

542

(1)

No Hard Feelings

542

(1)

Rhodopsin Blues

543

(1)

Shewn

544

(1)

Pyrophoric

544

(1)

Ingot We Trust

545

(1)

No Music

545

(1)

From Landscaping the Future (2000)

Looking for Language

546

(1)

A Happening at the Hair

546

(1)

Warm Autumn Problem

547

(1)

Landscaping the Future

547

(1)

Follow the Food

548

(1)

Affirmative ≠ 2 x Negative

549

(1)

Feu d'Artefriso

549

(1)

Previously unpublished

Translation

550

(2)

Suffering from painful Trapped Mood

552

(2)

For John Gian

554

(3)

Drinking Electricity

557

(2)

Index of Titles

559

(9)

Index of First Lines

568

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