TOM RAWORTH XIVLiners
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XIVLiners Collected & Uncollected
Cover illustration Tom Raworth. Cover design Andrea Evangelista
ABOUT THE BOOK:
This is the first collected edition of Tom Raworth's fourteen-line poems. The book sits well in the hand, has a poem per page, and uses Perpetua font, which is one of the fonts Raworth first used as a type setter. The collection runs to over 200 pages.
The first of Raworth's fourteen liners were compiled in 1987 in Visible Shivers, and reprinted as Sentenced he Gives a Shape (Zasterle). The last were published in 1995 as "Name Unknown". XIVLiners includes previously uncollected poems.
This is the first collected edition of Tom Raworth's fourteen-line poems. The book sits well in the hand, has a poem per page, and uses Perpetua font, which is one of the fonts Raworth first used as a type setter. The collection runs to over 200 pages.
The first of Raworth's fourteen liners were compiled in 1987 in Visible Shivers, and reprinted as Sentenced he Gives a Shape (Zasterle). The last were published in 1995 as "Name Unknown". XIVLiners includes previously uncollected poems.
REVIEW:
“Another deliberate gap in the Champion selection is the extraordinary series of 211 fourteen-line poems that Raworth wrote between about 1986 and the mid-1990s, but these are published collectively in XIVLiners for the first time. Beautifully designed, with one poem per page, we can savour each in isolation, in this pocket-book edition.[...] This book could remain in and out of your pocket forever.”
Robert Sheppard, Poetry Salzburg Review 28 (Autumn 2015)
Tom Raworth is an internationally renowned writer, whose career extends from the sixties to the present day. In addition to writing, he publishes and makes art of various kinds.
Raworth was born in South East London in 1938 (he holds British and Irish passports), grew up in Welling, and has since lived with his partner Val, and family, in the UK, USA and Mexico. He currently lives in Brighton. He taught himself how to type set and printed three issues of outburst, a number of books as Matrix Press (by Pete Brown, Edward Dorn, Anselm Hollo, Piero Heliczer and David Ball).
With Barry Hall he established Goliard Press (later Cape Goliard), which was responsible for some of the seminal poetry publications of the 1960s. He has written over 40 collections of poetry since his first, The Relation Ship, in 1966, and several prose pieces (notably A Serial Biography).
Publications include: The Big Green Day (Trigram); Moving (Cape Goliard, illustrated by Joe Brainard); Act (Trigram); Ace (Goliard, illustrated by Barry Hall); Common Sense (Zephyrus); Logbook (Poltroon); Nicht Wahr, Rosie? (Poltroon); Writing (The Figures); Catacoustics (Street Editions); Caller (Edge Books); Let Baby Fall (Critical Documents); and Windmills in Flames: Old and New Poems (Carcanet).
Between 1986 and 1991, Raworth published 116 issues of Infolio, an arts magazine consisting of a single A5 card folded to A6 dimensions. His Collected Poems appeared from Carcanet in 2003, and a new Selected Poems is to be published by Carcanet in 2015 (edited by Miles Champion). He’s won numerous awards, including the Antonio Delfinit prize for lifetime achievement, from Modena in Italy. His work has been translated into Swedish, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian, amongst other languages.