Carcanet Press - Rockdrill 4: Ace

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HOMILY the work of art
                reveals an exact opposite

                every act
                re-alignes your boundaries

                not to recall
                but to trigger

                the fuse
                must not go out

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.

Table of Contents

1. Drinking Electricity

2. Anniversary

3. My Face is My Own, I Thought

4. Morning

5. For Paul Dorn

6. Six Days

7. Ah the Poetry of Miss Parrot's Feet Demonstrating the Tango

8. Hot Day at the Races

9. Got Me

10. Shes

11. Gitanes

12. Introduction

13. Oratorio

14. Variations

15. Adagio

16. Saraband

17. Nocturne

18. Travelling

19. South America

20. Come Back, Come Back, O Glittering and White!

21. The Stroboscopic Forest Light Plays

22. Your Number is Up

23. Reference

24. Energy Gap

25. Toxophily

26. Surgical Names: John

27. Taxonomy

28. Western World

29. I Better Put a Pattern Around This if They're Going to Call it a Poem

30. The Centry Doesn't Want to be

31. University Days

32. Canvas

33. The Only Sound in Dallas was the Mexican Beans Jumping

34. A blue Vacuum Cleaner

35. The Beckoning Harpoon

36. The Conscience of a Conservative

37. Ulysses: or Trotsky's Death

38. The Drama Review

39. Funeral Cards

40. Beautiful Habit

41. Perpetual Motion

42. Horse Power

43. Coda: Songs of the Mask

44. Ace

45. Piety

46. Skiey

47. Sped on Alone

48. Magnetic Water

49. Pretense

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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Rockdrill 4: Ace Tom Raworth Imprint: Audio CDs Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: CD (Pub. Nov 2004) 9781905001033 Out of Stock Description Excerpt Author Contents Reviews HOMILY the work of art reveals an exact opposite every act re-alignes your boundaries not to recall but to trigger the fuse must not go out 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. Table of Contents 1. Drinking Electricity 2. Anniversary 3. My Face is My Own, I Thought 4. Morning 5. For Paul Dorn 6. Six Days 7. Ah the Poetry of Miss Parrot's Feet Demonstrating the Tango 8. Hot Day at the Races 9. Got Me 10. Shes 11. Gitanes 12. Introduction 13. Oratorio 14. Variations 15. Adagio 16. Saraband 17. Nocturne 18. Travelling 19. South America 20. Come Back, Come Back, O Glittering and White! 21. The Stroboscopic Forest Light Plays 22. Your Number is Up 23. Reference 24. Energy Gap 25. Toxophily 26. Surgical Names: John 27. Taxonomy 28. Western World 29. I Better Put a Pattern Around This if They're Going to Call it a Poem 30. The Centry Doesn't Want to be 31. University Days 32. Canvas 33. The Only Sound in Dallas was the Mexican Beans Jumping 34. A blue Vacuum Cleaner 35. The Beckoning Harpoon 36. The Conscience of a Conservative 37. Ulysses: or Trotsky's Death 38. The Drama Review 39. Funeral Cards 40. Beautiful Habit 41. Perpetual Motion 42. Horse Power 43. Coda: Songs of the Mask 44. Ace 45. Piety 46. Skiey 47. Sped on Alone 48. Magnetic Water 49. Pretense 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	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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