As When
A Selection
Published on 30. April 2015
256 pages
978-1-78410-034-6 (ISBN)
Description
As When spans the range of Tom Raworth's poetry to date, and includes work omitted from his Collected Poems (2003) as well as poems previously only issued as fugitive cards and broadsides. This edition of Tom Raworth's poems is beautifully arranged, with an introduction to his life and work long overdue.
Reviews / Votes
'As When is the selection I have waited for the whole spread of a great poets work.'Fanny Howe 'It has the beauty and weight of a real thing in the world, and is just full of dark senses and wonders.'
Adam Piette, Poetry London
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
3,13 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78410-034-6 (9781784100346)
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04/2015
Carcanet Poetry
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Persons
Tom Raworth was born in London in 1938. Between 1966 and 2017 he published more than fifty books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations. His graphic work was shown in Europe, the United States and South Africa, and he gave readings of his poems worldwide. Raworth received the Cholmondeley Award, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, the Philip Whalen Memorial Award and, in Italy, the Antonio Delfini Prize for Lifetime Achievement. He died in Sussex in 2017. Miles Champion was born in Nottingham in 1968. He edited Tom Raworth's As When (Carcanet, 2015) and Ted Greenwald's The Age of Reasons (Wesleyan University Press, 2016), and, with Trevor Winkfield, co-authored How I Became a Painter (Pressed Wafer, 2014). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
