Dubbed 'an immaculate survivor' by Robert Creeley, Tom Raworth has remained steadfastly independent of literary fashions and cliques throughout a poetic career spanning fifty years. As When is the first selection of Raworth's writing to address the full range of his work, from the first poem he ever shared with anyone outside his family, 'You Were Wearing Blue', to his most recently published poem, 'Surfing the Permafrost through Methane Flares'. The book includes prose work and notational pieces that were intentionally left out of his Collected Poems (2003), along with poems that were only published in little magazines or as ephemeral cards and broadsides. Some pieces appear in correct, definitive versions for the first time.

About the Author
Tom Raworth was born in London in 1938. During the 1970s he lived and worked in the US and Mexico. Since 1966 he has published more than forty books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations. He lives with his wife, Val, in Sussex. Miles Champion was born in Nottingham in 1968. He has published three books and several pamphlets of poetry, along with How I Became a Painter, a book-length illustrated interview with the English artist Trevor Winkfield. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.


Book Information
ISBN 9781784100339
Author Tom Raworth
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd