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Cancer comprises Tom Raworth's writing from September 1970 through May 1971, and was originally to have been published by Harvey Brown's Frontier Press (based in West Newbury, Massachusetts) in 1973. When Frontier's funds ran out, the typescript was returned to its author, and the book's opening section, Logbook, was published as a stand-alone volume by Poltroon Press in 1976. In the 1980s, Raworth revised the book's other two sections, Journal and Letters (the letters he sent to Edward Dorn from the Yaddo artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York) for separate publication. Over fifty years later, Logbook, Journal and Letters are now published together, as the author intended, with the original versions of both the Journal and Letters seeing print for the very first time.

Miles Champion

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. ... read more

Praise for Tom Raworth 'Brides in the source nail the soap-opera out of doowops? And then the parnassians for milfoils without floor-leaders. The Raworth loves to hum them toward the endeavour.'
Clark Coolidge 'Single-handedly, Tom Raworth has restored the value of quickness to English poetry. His is the alacrity of Shelley, of Byron, of Gerard Manley Hopkins, reinforced to meet a modern urgency. It is poetry of sensation, intelligence flashing down the spillway, faster than thought.'
Bill Berkson 'Tom Raworth is the one who's truly most interesting to me in England at the moment. I'm fascinated by what he's doing. He's an extraordinary poet.'
Robert Creeley
'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
Praise for Miles Champion 'The pleasure is that each poem is a different kind of challenge . . . the invention is spectacular and always 'up'.'
Larry Price
'By turns playful, insightful, erudite and essential, this is a poetry for the fluctuating times that we live in... Brilliant stuff. A Full Cone is one of my books of the year.'
Andrew Taylor, Stride
'Witness the cascades of words and listen to the silence between lines. The interstitial quietus common to Champion's many concrete excursions acts to vivify the text which it divides, so that the outrageous concatenation of everyday cultural artefacts is rendered explosive.'
Steve Whitaker, The Yorkshire Times
'It has often been noted that the pace at which Miles Champion's brilliantly intelligent poems unfold is rapid. Ideas and images tumble into words and the words become present as moments of conceptual or emotional consequence. But, though high velocity is in the making of the poems, there is no swift taking away. The moments aren't rescinded; the poems are not a demonstration of lyric evanescence. Champion's work, rather, is about phenomenological consequence, and consequence lingers, lasts. This is a collection of monumental significance - and the work is gorgeous.'
Lyn Hejinian

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Cancer Tom Raworth Edited by Miles Champion Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, British Imprint: Lives and Letters Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (88 pages) (Due Feb 2025) 9781800174627 £12.99 £11.69 Description Editor Reviews Cancer comprises Tom Raworth's writing from September 1970 through May 1971, and was originally to have been published by Harvey Brown's Frontier Press (based in West Newbury, Massachusetts) in 1973. When Frontier's funds ran out, the typescript was returned to its author, and the book's opening section, Logbook, was published as a stand-alone volume by Poltroon Press in 1976. In the 1980s, Raworth revised the book's other two sections, Journal and Letters (the letters he sent to Edward Dorn from the Yaddo artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York) for separate publication. Over fifty years later, Logbook, Journal and Letters are now published together, as the author intended, with the original versions of both the Journal and Letters seeing print for the very first time. Miles Champion 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. ... read more Praise for Tom Raworth 'Brides in the source nail the soap-opera out of doowops? And then the parnassians for milfoils without floor-leaders. The Raworth loves to hum them toward the endeavour.' Clark Coolidge 'Single-handedly, Tom Raworth has restored the value of quickness to English poetry. His is the alacrity of Shelley, of Byron, of Gerard Manley Hopkins, reinforced to meet a modern urgency. It is poetry of sensation, intelligence flashing down the spillway, faster than thought.' Bill Berkson 'Tom Raworth is the one who's truly most interesting to me in England at the moment. I'm fascinated by what he's doing. He's an extraordinary poet.' Robert Creeley '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 Praise for Miles Champion 'The pleasure is that each poem is a different kind of challenge . . . the invention is spectacular and always 'up'.' Larry Price 'By turns playful, insightful, erudite and essential, this is a poetry for the fluctuating times that we live in... Brilliant stuff. A Full Cone is one of my books of the year.' Andrew Taylor, Stride 'Witness the cascades of words and listen to the silence between lines. The interstitial quietus common to Champion's many concrete excursions acts to vivify the text which it divides, so that the outrageous concatenation of everyday cultural artefacts is rendered explosive.' Steve Whitaker, The Yorkshire Times 'It has often been noted that the pace at which Miles Champion's brilliantly intelligent poems unfold is rapid. Ideas and images tumble into words and the words become present as moments of conceptual or emotional consequence. But, though high velocity is in the making of the poems, there is no swift taking away. The moments aren't rescinded; the poems are not a demonstration of lyric evanescence. Champion's work, rather, is about phenomenological consequence, and consequence lingers, lasts. This is a collection of monumental significance - and the work is gorgeous.' Lyn Hejinian	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog Library Lives: Stella Halkyard read more Tablets: Dunya Mikhail read more PN Review 278: Set 5: Mondo de Sunbrilo Translated by John Gallas read more Apple Thieves: Beverley Bie Brahic read more PN Review Creative Writing Prize: 'If Only Id Known Back Then' by Jack Morris read more Scattered Snows, to the North: Carl Phillips read more
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Cancer

Tom Raworth

Edited by Miles Champion