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Tom Raworth


Born
in Bexleyheath, England
July 19, 1938

Died
February 08, 2017

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Early poetry showed the influences of the Black Mountain and New York School poets, particularly Robert Creeley and John Ashbery together with strands from European poetry (Apollinaire), Dada, and Surrealism. His 1974 book Ace saw Raworth move to a more disjunctive style, built from short, unpunctuated lines that entice the reader into following multiple syntactic possibilities, as they knit together everything from observations of the everyday to self-reflexive commentary on the acts of thinking and writing, to affectionate lifts from pulp fiction and film noir, to political satire. A series of long poems in this mode followed--after Ace came Writing (composed 1975-77; published 1982), Catacoustics (composed 1978-81; published 1991) and We ...more

Average rating: 4.42 · 445 ratings · 18 reviews · 71 distinct worksSimilar authors
Collected Poems

4.69 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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Tottering State: Selected E...

4.70 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions
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Ace

4.54 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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Clean and Well Lit: Selecte...

4.58 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1996
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Windmills in Flames: Old & ...

3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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A Serial Biography

4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1969 — 2 editions
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Moving

4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings3 editions
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Eternal Sections

4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions
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MEADOW

4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1999
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As When: A Selection

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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions
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