Rockdrill is a series of unusual new audio CDs commissioned by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck College, London, & produced by Colin Still and Birdie Hall of Optic Nerve.

The series includes the work by British and American poets, and combines new and archival recordings. Each CD is remarkable for the scope and range of material included, and for the quality of production. This unique new sound library is scheduled to grow in directions suggested by the initial list.

Rothenberg: 'Writing poetry for me has always included an involvement with the life of poetry - & through that life an intensification, when it happened, of my involvement with the other life around me.'

Table of Contents

1. In the dark word, khurbn

2. Dos Oysleydikn [The Emptying]

3. In the dark word, khurbn, with music by Charlie Morrow

4. Dos Oysleydikn [The Emptying], with music by Charlie Morrow

5. Dos Geshray [The Scream], with music by Charlie Morrow

6. Peroration for a Lost Town, with music by Charlie Morrow

7. A Paradise of Poets

8. Lorca Variation XXXIII: Second New York Poem

9. Seedings

10. Postlude to Seedings

11. At Tsukiji Market, Tokyo

12. New Improvisations

13. Three Paris Elegies

14. First Night Poem, for Jackson MacLow

15. Autobiography 1997

16. Auschwitz-Birkenau

17. Baba Yar

18. The Case for Memory

19. The Burning House

20. Where God is Light

21. A Real Man

22. The Last Friend

23. I Am Mad by Turns

24. A Cruel Nirvana

25. I Prefer a Poem with Spaces

26. I Can't Say Who I Am

27. I Come into the New World