now the pink stripes

NOW THE PINK STRIPES


now the pink stripes, the books, the clothes you wear
in the eaves of houses I ask whose land it is


an orange the size of a melon rolling slowly across the field
where I sit at the centre in an upright coffin of five panes of
           glass


there is no air            the sun shines
and under me you've planted a quick growing cactus












(Tom Raworth, who died on 8 February, 2017.)






http://tomraworth.com/notes/




Tom Clark
http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/tom-raworth-1938-2017.html

Laurie Duggan
http://graveneymarsh.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/im-tom-raworth-1938-2017.html

S. J. Fowler
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/tomraworth/

John Harvey
https://straight75nochaser.wordpress.com/2017/02/10/tom-raworth-1938-2017/

Pierre Joris
http://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=15132

Jacques Roubaud
http://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2017/02/disparition-hommage-à-tom-raworth-par-jacques-roubaud.html

Robert Sheppard
http://robertsheppard.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/robert-sheppard-im-tom-raworth-from.html
http://robertsheppard.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/robert-sheppard-catacaustic-for-tom.html
http://robertsheppard.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/robert-sheppard-on-tom-raworth-speed-of.html




http://gistsandpiths.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/tom-raworth-1938-2017.html

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2017/02/tom-raworth-1938-2017/




The PennSound treasury of Raworth readings and recordings:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Raworth.php

Recommended: Amazon's Look Inside! the As When Carcanet Selection chosen by Miles Champion; includes most of a biographical introduction and some of the well-known early poems:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/As-When-Selection-Tom-Raworth/1784100331/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487679682&sr=1-1#reader_1784100331

Recommended: Marjorie Perloff, Charles Bernstein, and Michael S. Hennessey talk with Al Filreis about Tom Raworth's poem "Errory"
http://jacket2.org/podcasts/state-error-poemtalk-50

Collage by Tom Raworth

[Image source: http://www.tomraworth.com/pictures.html . It's in the William Fuller Collection, Chicago.]