The poet steamed
Iain Sinclair: Tom Raworth, 19 August 2004
Removed for Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth
edited by Nate Dorward.
The Gig, 288 pp., £15, March 2003,0 9685294 3 7 Show More
edited by Nate Dorward.
The Gig, 288 pp., £15, March 2003,
“... Tom Raworth, according to Marjorie Perloff, is the ‘oldest living open-heart surgery survivor, treated in the UK in the first round of heart operations conducted there in the 1950s’. Highlight the ‘survivor’ bit. The last poet left standing in the saloon. (Think Gregory Peck in Henry King’s The Gunfighter. Grave moustache succumbing to gravity ... ”
