| Tom Raworth (b. 1938) - in addition to a career that includes being the editor of Outburst magazine, founder of the Goliard Press, and an artist whose shows have been seen in galleries in Europe and America - is a prolific poet, with over forty books and pamphlets published since 1966. Born in London, he has travelled widely and lived in both the USA and Mexico before returning to Britain, settling in Cambridge, where he has been Poet in Residence to Kings College, Cambridge; he has also received the Alice Hunt Bartlett prize, the Cholmondeley Award, and Arts Council funding for his writing. His Collected Poems were published by Carcanet in 2003.
1 Introduction 0.57
2 YOU WERE WEARING BLUE 0.47
3 WEDDING DAY 1.08
4 THE OTHERS 0.28
5 MY SON THE HAIKU WRITER 1.38
6 WHO IS HANNIBAL'S DESCENDANT, LEADING HIS ELEPHANTS AGAINST THE TANKS? 0.30
7 YOU'VE RUINED MY EVENING / YOU'VE RUINED MY LIFE 1.15
8 INNER SPACE 0.29
9 THE SURE GRIP OF A CATS PAW 0.31
10 LION LION 0.18
11 JUNGLE BOOK 0.27
12 KING OF THE SNOW 0.33
13 FLORAL LUNCHEONS AND SERVICE DINNERS 0.28
14 THE MOON UPOON THE WATERS 1.07
15 ONE TWO THREE 0.31
16 SONGS OF THE DEPRESSION 0.53
17 ĦQUE BONITOS OCHOS TIENES! 0.26
18 LUNCH IS READY 0.32
19 TENTENCES 0.26
20 THAT MORE SIMPLE NATURAL TIME TONE DISTORTION 2.48
21 SHADOWS 0.18
22 NOTHING TO THE POWER OF LANGUAGE 0.28
23 SLEEP, PERCH 0.23
24 THE WEST 0.23
25 ENGLISH OPIUM 0.38
26 IN MEMORIAM L. WITTGENSTEIN 0.15
27 NO LIGHT NO TUNNEL 0.19
28 LIVING UNDER THE DIVINE RIGHT OF SHERIFFS 0.14
29 HUMAN WARMTH 0.20
30 NOTHING 0.47
31 THE VEIN 6.00
32 ALL FOURS 2.10
33 NAME UNKNOWN 3.38
34 INTELLECTUAL COMPOST 3 0.41
35 MEADOW 8.37
36 DIFFERENCES IN COMMON 0.38
37 NO HARD FEELINGS 0.36
38 FOLLOW THE FOOD 0.23
39 AFFIRMATIVE =/= 2 x NEGATIVE 0.24
Total length of the recording 43.35
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