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sometimes a fragment of language

illuminates a world not consistently round

breathing its air

from 'Baggage Claim'

Tom Raworth’s Collected Poems (2003) was acclaimed by the Times Literary Supplement as a milestone: thirty years' work by a major poet of English modernism gathered for the first time. Raworth moves on, radical, inventive and politically engaged. Windmills in Flames takes a vertiginous ride through the language landscape we inhabit. Poems fragment and distort,veer in unexpected directions, reconfigure. Playful, often funny, Windmills in Flames is fuelled by anger at the use of language as an instrument of political deceit and military aggression.

Raworth often writes – and at public readings always performs – in lower case. The delivery is so swift you don’t notice the tremble in the air until later, the grenade goes off. Statements coming at you, one after another,without qualification or hierarchy...No flim-flam...He’s all detail, all darting quickness. - Iain Sinclair, London Review of Books

The poems have no purpose, though their author is happy should others find them interesting to read. This book collects some early works missing from the Collected Poems (2003). The rest were written since then. They will help the reader lose weight, have an attractive smile, be at ease with members of the opposite (or their own) sex, have relief from constipation, speak in tongues, fillet herrings and ultimately boost the Nation's economy. Tom Raworth

Contents

Into the Wild Blue Yonder
Cap
Breeding the Arsenic-Proof Baby
Continued
In the Beginning Was the Word, and the Word Was
With God, and the Word Was God
Rather a Few Mistakes than Fucking Boredom
Art is the Farthest Retreat from Boredom
Preserved People are Rare
Ground Swell
Drop in Existence
Vague
Thor Heyerdahl Solved the Mystery of the Statues? That Wasn’t the Mystery
How to Patronise a Poem
Intellectual Compost 6
Consolidation
Systems Disruption
26
Translation 2
Spime
With John Gian
Caller
Envoi
Listen Up
Coda to a Laureate
Seesound
Issue them Gasmasks
Language Construction
Equitable Deviation
Baggage Claim (a slugging welterweight natural)
Mechanical Gardens
Maltese Named Trouble
Viagra
Pelf! Pelf!
Thanks for the Memory
Lippitude
Reynard
Icequakes
Rolled Homogeneous Armour
Never Entered Mind
Maul
Melody Road
Data Death : Zerone
Rivers of Bling
Once and For All
Shuck
Seething with Adventure
Chips
Birthday Poem
From Mountains and Gardens
Capture of Karadzic
Never Odd or Even
History Portrayed by Lifesize Working Models
Creaking Candle
Over Noise
Peanut Galleria
Underground Mutton
I Wasn’t Before
Looks Like We’ve Got Brain Matter
Heat Up the Dead
Anti-Terrorism Started
All Knowledge
Title Forgotten

Errata to Collected Poems (2003)

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, ... 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

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Windmills in Flames Old and New Poems Tom Raworth 10% off all versions Categories: 21st Century Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Aug 2011) 9781847777850 £9.95 £8.96 Paperback (92 pages) (Pub. Jun 2010) 9781847770820 £9.95 £8.96 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions. Description Excerpt Author Contents Reviews sometimes a fragment of language illuminates a world not consistently round breathing its air from 'Baggage Claim' Tom Raworth’s Collected Poems (2003) was acclaimed by the Times Literary Supplement as a milestone: thirty years' work by a major poet of English modernism gathered for the first time. Raworth moves on, radical, inventive and politically engaged. Windmills in Flames takes a vertiginous ride through the language landscape we inhabit. Poems fragment and distort,veer in unexpected directions, reconfigure. Playful, often funny, Windmills in Flames is fuelled by anger at the use of language as an instrument of political deceit and military aggression. Raworth often writes – and at public readings always performs – in lower case. The delivery is so swift you don’t notice the tremble in the air until later, the grenade goes off. Statements coming at you, one after another,without qualification or hierarchy...No flim-flam...He’s all detail, all darting quickness. - Iain Sinclair, London Review of Books The poems have no purpose, though their author is happy should others find them interesting to read. This book collects some early works missing from the Collected Poems (2003). The rest were written since then. They will help the reader lose weight, have an attractive smile, be at ease with members of the opposite (or their own) sex, have relief from constipation, speak in tongues, fillet herrings and ultimately boost the Nation's economy. Tom Raworth Cover illustration Copyright ©Tom Raworth. Cover design StephenRaw.com Contents Into the Wild Blue Yonder Cap Breeding the Arsenic-Proof Baby Continued In the Beginning Was the Word, and the Word Was With God, and the Word Was God Rather a Few Mistakes than Fucking Boredom Art is the Farthest Retreat from Boredom Preserved People are Rare Ground Swell Drop in Existence Vague Thor Heyerdahl Solved the Mystery of the Statues? That Wasn’t the Mystery How to Patronise a Poem Intellectual Compost 6 Consolidation Systems Disruption 26 Translation 2 Spime With John Gian Caller Envoi Listen Up Coda to a Laureate Seesound Issue them Gasmasks Language Construction Equitable Deviation Baggage Claim (a slugging welterweight natural) Mechanical Gardens Maltese Named Trouble Viagra Pelf! Pelf! Thanks for the Memory Lippitude Reynard Icequakes Rolled Homogeneous Armour Never Entered Mind Maul Melody Road Data Death : Zerone Rivers of Bling Once and For All Shuck Seething with Adventure Chips Birthday Poem From Mountains and Gardens Capture of Karadzic Never Odd or Even History Portrayed by Lifesize Working Models Creaking Candle Over Noise Peanut Galleria Underground Mutton I Wasn’t Before Looks Like We’ve Got Brain Matter Heat Up the Dead Anti-Terrorism Started All Knowledge Title Forgotten Errata to Collected Poems (2003) 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, ... 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 You might also be interested in: Collected Poems Tom Raworth	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 One Little Room: Peter McDonald read more Collected Poems: Mimi Khalvati read more Invisible Dog: Fabio Morbito, translated by Richard Gwyn read more Dante's Purgatorio: Philip Terry read more Billy 'Nibs' Buckshot: John Gallas read more Emotional Support Horse: Claudine Toutoungi read more
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Windmills in Flames

Old and New Poems

Tom Raworth