CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
1287
Partner Institution:
Concordia University
Source Collection Label:
SGWU Reading Series-Concordia University Department of English fonds
Series:
The Poetry Series
Sub Series:
SGWU Reading Series-Concordia University Department of English fonds
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
David Ball and Tom Raworth at Sir George Williams University, The Poetry Series, 4 March 1970
Title Source:
Cataloguer
Title Note:
"David Ball and Tom Raworth Reading at Sir George Williams University, 1970" written on sticker on the back of the tape's box: "BALL & RAWORTH Recorded March 4, 1970 3.75 ips, 1/2 track on 1 mil tape".
"Ball, the Raworth. Separated by leader" also written on sticker on the back of the tape's box. BALL refers to David Ball.
"DAVID BALL & TOM RAWORTH I006/SR133" written on sticker on the spine of the tape's box.
"GLADYS HINDMARCH I006-11-133" written on sticker on the reel (possible mistake).
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
CREATORS
Name:
Ball, David
Dates:
1942-
Role:
"Performer",
"Author"
Notes:
David Ball was born on February 27, 1937 in New York, New York. He received his B.A. from Brandeis University in 1959, studied at the Sorbonne, University of Paris, Licence et Lettres in 1964, Docteur en Littérature Générale et Comparée in 1971. He was a lecturer at Smith College, MA, from 1969-1971, an assistant professor from 1971 to 1976, and an associate professor of French from 1976-. In 1959 David Ball was a Fulbright scholar, won a French Government fellowship from 1967 to 1968, and the Eugene M. Warren Poetry Prize from Brandeis University in 1957. Ball’s work appeared in Jazz Poems, an anthology edited by Anselm Hollow in 1963. He also wrote poems and translations to journals including Locus Solus, World, Massachusetts Review, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, Études Anglaises and Revue de Littérature Comparée. He served as the editor of Blue Pig magazine. David Ball published a chapbook, We Just Wanted to Tell You with Anselm Hollo in 1963 (Writers Forum). His first book of verse, Two Poems came out in 1964, published by Matrix Press in London. His books New Topoi, (Buffalo Press,1972), The Mutant Daughter, (Buffalo Press, 1975), Praise of Crazy, (Diana’s bimonthly,1975), The Garbage Poems: From the New Zone in 1976 (Burning Deck), and In Cities (Potato Clock Editions) in 2001 followed. David Ball translated and introduced Leda: In Praise of the Blessings of Darkness (Cheeloniideae Press), by Pierre Louys in 1985 and Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology 1927-1984 (University of California Press) in 1994, which won MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work in 1996. Other translations include Pierre Loti’s Constantinople: The Way It Was (Unlem Press) and The Green Mosque at Bursa in 2006, and Abdourahman A. Waberi’s In the United States of Africa (University of Nebraska Press) in 2009. Most recently he translated Alfred Jarry’s Ubu the King in the spring of 2009. David Ball is a member of PEN American Center.
Name:
Raworth, Tom
Dates:
1938-2017
Role:
"Performer",
"Author"
Notes:
Poet Tom Raworth was born in 1938 and grew up in the outskirts of London. Raworth left grammar school at sixteen and pursued many odd jobs, frequented all-night jazz clubs while writing a collaborative secret-agent novel in addition to his own poetry. He married in the late 50’s and had three children. In 1963 he was publishing and printing his own magazine, Outburst, meeting the likes of Michael Horowitz, Anselm Hollo, David Ball, publishing Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Charles Olson, LeRoi Jones and Gregory Corso. His first book of verse, The Minicab War (Matrix Press) was a collaboration with Hollo and Corso in 1961. Under Matrix Press, he published Dorn’s From Gloucester Out, and Hollo’s History. Raworth met Barry Hall and in 1965, they formed Goliard Press and published books by Charles Olson, and Ron Padgett. Jonathan Cape’s publishing house and Goliard merged in 1967, becoming Cape Goliard Press, publishing Olson’s The Maximus Poems in 1970. The Relation Ship (Cape Goliard Press) was published in 1966, re-printed in 1969, and drew the attention of Donald Davie and Dorn at University of Essex, who offered him the opportunity to continue his education. The Relation Ship won the Alice Hunt Bartlett prize in 1969. Raworth also published smaller collections of poetry, Continuation in 1966 (Goliard), Haiku (another collaboration with Hollo and John Esam) in 1968 (Trigram Press), and Betrayal in 1969. A Serial Biography (Fulcrum Press) published in 1969 spawned from a correspondence with Ed Dorn, and culminated with correspondences from letters with Park magazine. Written in 1968 while Raworth was studying Spanish at the University of Granada, (through the University of Essex), Lion Lion (Trigram Press) was published in 1970. Over the subsequent two decades, Raworth took up position as poet-in-residence at King’s College, Cambridge for a year, and published over a dozen other books, including Ace (The Figures Press, 1974), Cloister (Sand Project Press, 1975), Logbook (Poltroon Press, 1977), Nicht Wahr, Rosie? (Poltroon Press,1980), and Lazy Left Hand: Notes from 1970-1975 (Actual Size Press,1986). His poems were later compiled in Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2003). Raworth died in 2017.
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
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AV Type:
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Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/4 inch
Playing Speed:
3 3/4 ips
Track Configuration:
Half-track
Playback Mode:
Mono
Generations:
Master
Tape Brand:
Scotch
Sound Quality:
Good
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
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files.spokenweb.ca>concordia>sgw>audio>all_mp3
Duration:
00:40:45
Size:
97.8 MB
Content:
Introducer
00:00:00
David Ball is currently a professor of French at Smith College
, he has published his poetry in the Atlantic Monthly
, and Locus Solus
, Poor.Old.Tired.Horse
, Blue Pig which he was co-editor, Outburst, Jazz Poems, [The Wyvenhoe (?)] Park Review, etc, etc and a wide variety of publications. He has two tiny books that were published in London
, we just wanted to tell you, and two and he has two long, long poems that are published by the Matrix Press, and a long poem, titled “The Boring Poems”, which he will read tonight. This will also be published in Copenhagen
with a French title. David Ball has spent the last ten years in Paris
. He has some other poem sequences which have been published along with Tom Raworth
and others and he has worked with Tom Raworth on the translation of several of Rene Char's poems, one of which received an accolade from René Char
himself. We give you David Ball.
David Ball
00:01:40
Reads unnamed poem [series].
David Ball
00:11:34
From Anti-Tish happenings, “The Second”.
David Ball
00:11:38
Reads "The Second".
David Ball
00:13:25
That's the end of the New Zone poems
David Ball
00:13:28
Reads unnamed poem [series].
Unknown
00:18:17
Silence [cut or edit in tape].
Introducer
00:18:26
Tom Raworth is a central figure in the emergence of the British Avant-Garde, he is also well represented in most forward North American publications, he was the editor of the underground Goliard Press before it was taken up as the revolutionary branch of Johnathan Cape
books, and his own publications include The Relation Ship, The Big Green Day and most recently, Lion, Lion , poetry that along with that of Anselm Hollo
, and Turnbull
will define what happened in the British verse of the 60's. Cape Goliard has also published his Serial Biography which is a most exciting experiment on the British prose scene, and he is also one of the first poets to be heard on Steam Records, a series of LPs presenting leading American and British poets reading their works. This year, he is poet in residence at Essex
.
Tom Raworth
00:19:40
This is a poem called "My Face is My Own, I Thought".
Tom Raworth
00:19:44
Reads "My Face is My Own, I Thought" [from The Relation Ship].
Tom Raworth
00:20:19
These are two poems about children, the first poem's called "Three".
Tom Raworth
00:20:26
Reads "Three" [from The Relation Ship].
Tom Raworth
00:20:51
Reads "Morning" from The Relation Ship.
Tom Raworth
00:21:17
Reads "The Third Retainer" [from The Relation Ship].
Tom Raworth
00:21:54
Reads "September Morning" [from The Relation Ship].
Tom Raworth
00:22:40
This poem is called "Shoes".
Tom Raworth
00:22:51
Reads "Shoes" [from The Big Green Day].
Tom Raworth
00:23:35
This is a poem in eight parts called "Love Poem".
Tom Raworth
00:23:43
Reads "Love Poem" [from The Big Green Day].
Tom Raworth
00:25:06
This is a short poem called "Georgia on My Mind".
Tom Raworth
00:25:10
Reads "Georgia on My Mind" [from The Big Green Day].
Tom Raworth
00:25:32
This is a poem called "Got Me" which is difficult to read because the last part of the poem is the first part of it, corrected.
Tom Raworth
00:25:43
Reads "Got Me" [from The Big Green Day].
Tom Raworth
00:26:17
This poem is called "Wham! The Race Begins".
Tom Raworth
00:26:24
Reads "Wham! The Race Begins" [from The Big Green Day].
Tom Raworth
00:26:53
Reads "Hot Day at the Races" [from The Big Green Day].
Tom Raworth
00:27:50
I’ll just read a few poems from a book called Lion, Lion. The quote from the beginning is from an old poem from Gregory Corso
., called “Dementia in an African Apartment House”.
Tom Raworth
00:28:02
Reads “Dementia in an African Apartment House” by Gregory Corso.
Tom Raworth
00:28:10
The first poem is called "Lion, Lion".
Tom Raworth
00:28:13
Reads "Lion, Lion" from Lion, Lion.
Tom Raworth
00:28:27
This is a poem in four parts called "Traveling".
Tom Raworth
00:28:35
Reads "Traveling" [from Lion, Lion].
Tom Raworth
00:29:23
Reads "The Plaza in the Flaming Orange Trees" [from Lion, Lion].
Tom Raworth
00:30:08
This poem is called "Dear Sir, Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers".
Tom Raworth
00:30:14
Reads "Dear Sir, Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers" [from Lion, Lion].
Tom Raworth
00:30:53
This is called "King of the Snow".
Tom Raworth
00:30:58
Reads "King of the Snow" [from Lion, Lion].
Tom Raworth
00:31:39
Reads "South America" [from Lion, Lion].
Tom Raworth
00:33:00
This is a poem called "Claudette Colbert by Billy Wilder”, and all the lines are just by Billy Wilder
, they're from films that he made with Claudette Colbert https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203819].
Tom Raworth
00:33:15
Reads "Claudette Colbert by Billy Wilder” [from Lion, Lion].
Tom Raworth
00:34:12
The last poem in Lion, Lion is called "Vensuramos".
Tom Raworth
00:34:16
Reads "Vensuramos" from Lion, Lion.
Tom Raworth
00:34:46
I'll just read a few poems from, that I've been working on recently, that's a sequence called “Into the Living Sea” from a poem by John Clare
called "I Am", the middle stanza of which goes "Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, into the living sea of waking dream, where there is neither sense of life, nor joys, but the huge shipwreck of my own esteem, and all that's dear, even those that I love the best are strange, nay, they are stranger than the rest". The first poem is called "The Moon Upon the Waters".
Tom Raworth
00:35:27
Reads "The Moon Upon the Waters" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:36:35
Reads "Reverse Map" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:37:21
Reads "Who Would True Valour See" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:37:56
Reads "The Corpse in My Head" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:38:33
This is a poem called "Helpston, £9,850 Stone Built Residence".
Tom Raworth
00:38:42
Reads "Helpston, £9,850 Stone Built Residence" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:39:26
This is just a short poem called "The Stroboscopic Forest Light Plays" .
Tom Raworth
00:39:30
Reads "The Stroboscopic Forest Light Plays" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:39:40
I'll just read two more poems. This one's called "Purely Personal".
Tom Raworth
00:39:46
Reads "Purely Personal" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:40:19
The last poem's called "Notes of the Song / Ain't Gonna Stay in This Town Long".
Tom Raworth
00:40:23
Reads "Notes of the Song / Ain't Gonna Stay in This Town Long" [published later in Moving].
END
00:40:45
Notes:
David Ball reads from unknown sources. Tom Raworth reads from The Relation Ship (Cape Goliard Press, 1969), The Big Green Day (Trigram, 1968), Lion Lion (Trigram, 1970), as well as poems later published in Moving (Cape Goliard Press, 1971).
List of Poems Read and Time Stamps
00:00 - Unknown Male introduces David Ball [INDEX: David Ball-- Professor of French at
Smith College, Atlantic Monthly Magazine, Locus Solus Journal, Poor.Old.Tired.Horse Magazine, Blue Pig Press, Outburst Magazine, Jazz Poems Magazine, the Wyvenhoe Park Press, Matrix Press, The Boring Poems published in Copenhagen, Paris/ Tom Raworth-- Translation of Rene Char’s poetry
01:40 - David Ball reads first line “The Smell of printer’s ink was more than...”
11:38 - Reads “The Second” [INDEX: anti-tish happenings]
13:28 - Reads first line “One: Stone face of..” (series)
18:26 - Unknown Male introduces Tom Raworth [INDEX: Tom Raworth: British Avant Guard,Goliard Press, Johnathan Cape Books, books by: The Relation Ship, The big green day, Lion, Lion, Anslem Hollo, British Verse of the 60’s, Steam Records LP, Poet in residence at Essex (1971), Outburst Magazine]
19:44 - Tom Raworth reads “My Face is My Own, I Thought” [INDEX: The Relation Ship]
20:19 - Introduces “Three” and “Morning”
20:26 - Reads “Three” [INDEX: The Relation Ship]
20:51 - Reads “Morning” [INDEX: The Relation Ship]
21:17 - Reads “The Third Retainer” [INDEX: The Relation Ship]
21:54 - Reads “September Morning” [INDEX: The Relation Ship]
22:40 - Reads “Shoes” [INDEX: Into the Living Sea]
23:35 - Reads “Love Poem” [INDEX: Into the Living Sea]
25:06 - Reads “Georgia On My Mind” [INDEX: Into the Living Sea]
25:32 - Introduces “Got Me” [INDEX: Into the Living Sea]
25:43 - Reads “Got Me”
26:17- Reads “Wham! The Race Begins” [INDEX: Into the Living Sea]
26:53 - Reads “Hot Day at the Races” [INDEX: the big green day]
27:50 - Introduces “Lion Lion” [INDEX: poem “Dementia in an African Apartment House”
by Gregory Corso]
28:02 - Reads Gregory Corso poem, “Dementia in an African Apartment House”
28:10 - Reads “Lion, Lion”
28.27 - Reads “Traveling”
29:23 - Reads “The Plaza in the Flaming Orange Trees”
30:08 - Reads “Dear Sir, Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers”
30:53 - Reads “King of the Snow”
31:39 - Reads “South America”
33:00 - Introduces “Claudette Colbert by Billy Wilder”
33:15 - Reads “Claudette Colbert by Billy Wilder”
34:12 - Reads “Vensuramos”
34:46 - Introduces “The Moon Upon the Waters” [INDEX: Into the Living Sea, poem by Jon Clare “I Am”]
35:27 - Reads “The Moon Upon the Waters”
36:35 - Reads “Reverse Map” [INDEX: Into the Living Sea]
37:21 - Reads “Who Would True Valor See” [INDEX: Into the Living Sea]
37:56 - Reads “The Corpse in My Head” [INDEX: Into the Living Sea]
38:33 - Reads “Helpston,£9,850. Stone Built Residence” [INDEX: Into the Living Sea]
39:26 - Reads “The Stroboscopic Forest Light Plays” [INDEX: Into the Living Sea]
39:40 - Reads “Purely Personal” [INDEX: Into the Living Sea]
40:19 - Reads “Notes of the Song: Ain’t Gunna Stay in This Town Long” [INDEX: Into the Living Sea]
40:45 - END OF RECORDING
Howard Fink list of poems:
4/3/70
on one 5”, mono, single track, tape, @ 3 3/4 ips, lasting 65 mins.
David Ball:
1. First line “The smell of printers ink was more...”
2. “The Second”
3. First line “Stone face of...”
Tom Raworth:
1. “My Face is My Own Thought”
2. “Three”
3. “Morning”
4. “The Third Retainer”
5. “September Morning”
6. “Shoes”
7. “Love Poem”
8. “Georgia on My Mind”
9. “Got Me”
10. “Wham! The Race Begins”
11 .“Hot Day at the Races”
12. “Lion Lion”
13.“Travelling”
14.“The Plaza in the Flaming Orange Trees:
15.“Dear Sir, Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers.
16.“King of Snow”
17.“South America”
18.“Claud et Colbert” by Billy Wilder
19. First line “Death came as the lion spoke...”
20. “The Moon upon the Waters”
21. “Reverse Map”
22. First Line “Everything is done to the ticking of a clock...”
23.“The Corps in My Head”
24. First Line “The view is again...
25. First Line “Gentlt (?) the walk to the door...”
26.“Purely Personal”
27.“Notes of the Song: Ain’t going to stay in this town long”
* Second page of Tom Raworth poems (discrepancies)
1. “My Face Is My Own, I Thought”
7. “Love Poem” (serial poem)
13. “Travelling” (serial poem)
14. “The Flowers Are In The Flaming Orange Trees”
16. “King of the Snow”
18. “Claudette Colbert”
19. “Vensuramos”
20. “Into The Living Sea”
21. “The Moon Upon the Waters”
22. “Who Would True Valor See”
23. “The Corps In My Head”
24. “Help....Stone Residence” (something lost)
25. “The Strob Light Blaze”
Content Type:
Sound Recording
Featured:
Yes
Title:
Ball and Raworth Tape Box - Back
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
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Title:
Ball and Raworth Tape Box - Front
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
Photograph
Title:
Ball and Raworth Tape Box - Spine
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
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Title:
Ball and Raworth Tape Box - Reel
Credit:
Drew Bernet
Content Type:
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Dates
Date:
1970 3 4
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
Accompanying Material
Notes:
Date written on sticker on the back of the tape's box. Previous researcher specifies March 2, 1970 as date. Possible mistake.
LOCATION
Address:
1455, Boul de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Venue:
Hall Building Room H-651
Latitude:
45.4972758
Longitude:
-73.57893043
CONTENT
Contents:
david_ball_tom_raworth_i006-11-133.mp3
Introducer
00:00:00
David Ball is currently a professor of French at Smith College
, he has published his poetry in the Atlantic Monthly
, and Locus Solus
, Poor.Old.Tired.Horse
, Blue Pig which he was co-editor, Outburst, Jazz Poems, [The Wyvenhoe (?)] Park Review, etc, etc and a wide variety of publications. He has two tiny books that were published in London
, we just wanted to tell you, and two and he has two long, long poems that are published by the Matrix Press, and a long poem, titled “The Boring Poems”, which he will read tonight. This will also be published in Copenhagen
with a French title. David Ball has spent the last ten years in Paris
. He has some other poem sequences which have been published along with Tom Raworth
and others and he has worked with Tom Raworth on the translation of several of Rene Char's poems, one of which received an accolade from René Char
himself. We give you David Ball.
David Ball
00:01:40
Reads unnamed poem [series].
David Ball
00:11:34
From Anti-Tish happenings, “The Second”.
David Ball
00:11:38
Reads "The Second".
David Ball
00:13:25
That's the end of the New Zone poems
David Ball
00:13:28
Reads unnamed poem [series].
Unknown
00:18:17
Silence [cut or edit in tape].
Introducer
00:18:26
Tom Raworth is a central figure in the emergence of the British Avant-Garde, he is also well represented in most forward North American publications, he was the editor of the underground Goliard Press before it was taken up as the revolutionary branch of Johnathan Cape
books, and his own publications include The Relation Ship, The Big Green Day and most recently, Lion, Lion , poetry that along with that of Anselm Hollo
, and Turnbull
will define what happened in the British verse of the 60's. Cape Goliard has also published his Serial Biography which is a most exciting experiment on the British prose scene, and he is also one of the first poets to be heard on Steam Records, a series of LPs presenting leading American and British poets reading their works. This year, he is poet in residence at Essex
.
Tom Raworth
00:19:40
This is a poem called "My Face is My Own, I Thought".
Tom Raworth
00:19:44
Reads "My Face is My Own, I Thought" [from The Relation Ship].
Tom Raworth
00:20:19
These are two poems about children, the first poem's called "Three".
Tom Raworth
00:20:26
Reads "Three" [from The Relation Ship].
Tom Raworth
00:20:51
Reads "Morning" from The Relation Ship.
Tom Raworth
00:21:17
Reads "The Third Retainer" [from The Relation Ship].
Tom Raworth
00:21:54
Reads "September Morning" [from The Relation Ship].
Tom Raworth
00:22:40
This poem is called "Shoes".
Tom Raworth
00:22:51
Reads "Shoes" [from The Big Green Day].
Tom Raworth
00:23:35
This is a poem in eight parts called "Love Poem".
Tom Raworth
00:23:43
Reads "Love Poem" [from The Big Green Day].
Tom Raworth
00:25:06
This is a short poem called "Georgia on My Mind".
Tom Raworth
00:25:10
Reads "Georgia on My Mind" [from The Big Green Day].
Tom Raworth
00:25:32
This is a poem called "Got Me" which is difficult to read because the last part of the poem is the first part of it, corrected.
Tom Raworth
00:25:43
Reads "Got Me" [from The Big Green Day].
Tom Raworth
00:26:17
This poem is called "Wham! The Race Begins".
Tom Raworth
00:26:24
Reads "Wham! The Race Begins" [from The Big Green Day].
Tom Raworth
00:26:53
Reads "Hot Day at the Races" [from The Big Green Day].
Tom Raworth
00:27:50
I’ll just read a few poems from a book called Lion, Lion. The quote from the beginning is from an old poem from Gregory Corso
., called “Dementia in an African Apartment House”.
Tom Raworth
00:28:02
Reads “Dementia in an African Apartment House” by Gregory Corso.
Tom Raworth
00:28:10
The first poem is called "Lion, Lion".
Tom Raworth
00:28:13
Reads "Lion, Lion" from Lion, Lion.
Tom Raworth
00:28:27
This is a poem in four parts called "Traveling".
Tom Raworth
00:28:35
Reads "Traveling" [from Lion, Lion].
Tom Raworth
00:29:23
Reads "The Plaza in the Flaming Orange Trees" [from Lion, Lion].
Tom Raworth
00:30:08
This poem is called "Dear Sir, Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers".
Tom Raworth
00:30:14
Reads "Dear Sir, Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers" [from Lion, Lion].
Tom Raworth
00:30:53
This is called "King of the Snow".
Tom Raworth
00:30:58
Reads "King of the Snow" [from Lion, Lion].
Tom Raworth
00:31:39
Reads "South America" [from Lion, Lion].
Tom Raworth
00:33:00
This is a poem called "Claudette Colbert by Billy Wilder”, and all the lines are just by Billy Wilder
, they're from films that he made with Claudette Colbert https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203819].
Tom Raworth
00:33:15
Reads "Claudette Colbert by Billy Wilder” [from Lion, Lion].
Tom Raworth
00:34:12
The last poem in Lion, Lion is called "Vensuramos".
Tom Raworth
00:34:16
Reads "Vensuramos" from Lion, Lion.
Tom Raworth
00:34:46
I'll just read a few poems from, that I've been working on recently, that's a sequence called “Into the Living Sea” from a poem by John Clare
called "I Am", the middle stanza of which goes "Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, into the living sea of waking dream, where there is neither sense of life, nor joys, but the huge shipwreck of my own esteem, and all that's dear, even those that I love the best are strange, nay, they are stranger than the rest". The first poem is called "The Moon Upon the Waters".
Tom Raworth
00:35:27
Reads "The Moon Upon the Waters" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:36:35
Reads "Reverse Map" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:37:21
Reads "Who Would True Valour See" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:37:56
Reads "The Corpse in My Head" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:38:33
This is a poem called "Helpston, £9,850 Stone Built Residence".
Tom Raworth
00:38:42
Reads "Helpston, £9,850 Stone Built Residence" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:39:26
This is just a short poem called "The Stroboscopic Forest Light Plays" .
Tom Raworth
00:39:30
Reads "The Stroboscopic Forest Light Plays" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:39:40
I'll just read two more poems. This one's called "Purely Personal".
Tom Raworth
00:39:46
Reads "Purely Personal" [published later in Moving].
Tom Raworth
00:40:19
The last poem's called "Notes of the Song / Ain't Gonna Stay in This Town Long".
Tom Raworth
00:40:23
Reads "Notes of the Song / Ain't Gonna Stay in This Town Long" [published later in Moving].
END
00:40:45
Notes:
David Ball reads from unknown sources. Tom Raworth reads from The Relation Ship (Cape Goliard Press, 1969), The Big Green Day (Trigram, 1968), Lion Lion (Trigram, 1970), as well as poems later published in Moving (Cape Goliard Press, 1971).
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Year-Specific Information:
David Ball was a lecturer at Smith College, Massachusetts in 1970.
Tom Raworth was the poet-in-residence at the University of Essex. Lion Lion was also published in 1970.
Type:
General
Note:
Local Connections:
Ball--Unknown connection to Canadian, Montreal, and Sir George Williams University poetry scene at this point.
Raworth--No known connections to Canadian/Montreal/Concordia poetry scene, however he was connected to David Ball. Tom Raworth was an important poet and publisher of poetry and experimental works, publishing the work of Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Charles Olson, Anselm Hollo and Gregory Corso.
Type:
Cataloguer
Note:
Original transcript, research, introduction and edits by Celyn Harding-Jones
Additional research and edits by Faith Paré (2020) & Ali Barillaro (2021)
Type:
Preservation
Note:
Reel-to-reel tape>CD>digital file
RELATED WORKS
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Raworth, Tom. The Big Green Day: Poems. London: Trigram Press, 1968.
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Raworth, Tom. The Relation Ship. London: Goliard Press, 1969.
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"David Ball." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2001.
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Robinson, Kit. "Thomas Moore Raworth." Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Since 1960. Ed. Vincent B. Sherry. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 40. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985.
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Raworth, Tom. Lion Lion. London: Tigram Press, 1970.
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Raworth, Tom. Moving. London: Cape Goliard Press, 1971.