Blackbox Manifold has another fine issue out, number 18, this time with a special section of poems and prose to the memory of Tom Raworth; see the list of contributors below. I haven't read it all yet. But it's here.
My poem 'Tom Beau' is one of the contributions: here.
Earlier this year, I posted three pieces for Tom and linked to some even earlier pieces.
I have written critically of Tom's work a great deal but here's a relaxed take on his extraordinary 14 liners.
But read a decidedly unrelaxed 'On Tom Raworth: The Speed of Writing and the Poetics of What is to One Side' here.
And see my 1999 poem for him from Twentieth Century Blues, posted I.M. here.
But there's more (these posts and links were put of a tribute I put together here on Pages some months ago). How about a passage from my abandoned novel Thelma here
which features Tom Raworth as a character? Thelma was my Scouse version of Breton's Nadja!
Tom Beau indeed. He'll be missed... He is missed!
The Tom Raworth memorial features work by:
There is poetry by eight Chinese women poets translated by Eleanor Goodman. John Wilkinson reviews Poems by Verity Spott & Timonthy Thornton. Adam Piette reviews Keston Sutherland, Shara McCallum, Alan Halsey and Tara Bergin.
The main section of Blackbox Manifold has work
by:
Zohar Atkins, Louis Armand, Alan Baker, Charlie Baylis,
James Coghill, Helen Charman, Aidan Coleman, John Goodby, Dominic
Hale, Caleb Klaces, Daisy Lafarge, Robert Lietz, Medbh Mcguckian,
Anthony Madrid, Kate Noakes, Mary Noonan, Karl O'Hanlon, Dan Raphael, Cal
Revely-Calder, Aidan Semmens (who edited the Molly Bloom trubutes to Raworth), Paige Smeaton, Cherry Smyth, David Wheatley,
and John Wilkinson.
The Tom Raworth memorial features work by:
Astrid Alben, Dorothy Alexander, Louis Armand, Kate
Behrens, Charles Bernstein & Ted Greenwald, Iain Britton,
Robert Burton, Sara Crangle, John Latta, Ed Luker, Colin Lee Marshall,
Drew Milne, Joseph Minden, Daniella Moritz, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Philip Byron
Oakes, Ian Patterson, John Regan, Denise Riley, Peter Robinson,
Kerrin Sharpe, Peter Jay Shippy, Ken Taylor, Jonty
Tiplady, Lawrence Upton, Corey Wakeling, John Wilkinson. And me.
There is poetry by eight Chinese women poets translated by Eleanor Goodman. John Wilkinson reviews Poems by Verity Spott & Timonthy Thornton. Adam Piette reviews Keston Sutherland, Shara McCallum, Alan Halsey and Tara Bergin.
Redoubtable editors Alex Houen & Adam Piette, thanks for this issue.
