Tom Raworth Reading / October 16, 2008
Event Report
In the fourth event of the Fall 2008 season, poet Tom Raworth read to an audience of approximately 50 people in the Hill Auditorium on October 16, 2008. Steve Evans introduced the half-hour long reading, after which Raworth fielded questions and talked to audience members one-on-one.
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Set List
Introduction by Steve Evans
Three
The Blown Agent
Ah, the poetry of Miss Parrot’s feet demonstrating the tango
Metaphysics of Magicians
King of the Snow
Just Another Whistle Stop
No Peace, Black Holes, Earth Cracks
Dormitory Life
Shadows
No Hard Feelings
Follow the Food
Intellectual Compost 4
Coal Grass Blood Night Emerald
You Can’t Get Out
Going Away Poem for Lee Harwood
Georgia on My Mind
Caller
Mechanical Gardens
Viagara
Pelf, Pelf
Icequakes
Data Death: Zerone
Rivers of Bling
Once and For All
Creaking Candle
Shuck
Seething with Adventure
Chips
Birthday Poem (with Florence Wylde Raworth)
From Mountains and Gardens
Capture of Karadzic
You Need It, We Rent It
University Days
Questions
Can you talk about the tempo/ velocity of your reading? Can you talk about the fact that you don’t introduce your poems?
Do you compose your poems as quickly as you read them?
Did your earlier style differ from your current style?
How long ago did you write “University Days”?
When did you come out with your first book?
When you write a poem, do you have a clear goal at the start?
How do you title your poems?