2015
 
Tom Raworth
2015
Tom Raworth
Tom Raworth (1938) was born in London. Writer, artist, teacher and publisher, Raworth has published over forty books of poetry and prose since 1966. His work has been translated in many countries. Raworth is a key figure in the British Poetry Revival. In the early 1960s he started a magazine called Outburst and founded Matrix Press, publishing in both a number of British and American poets including Pete Brown, Charles Olson, Ed Dom, Allen Ginsberg, and Leroi Jones. As the co-founder of Goliard Press, Raworth was instrumental in bringing the work of a number of poets associated with the Black Mountain School to English readers. His first book, The Relation Ship (1966), won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize. He translated Vincente Huidobro and other Latin American poets into English. In the 1970s, he worked in the United States, teaching at universities in Ohio, Chicago and Texas, and living in San Francisco. In 2007 he was awarded the Antonio Delfini Prize for lifetime achievement in Modena. He lives in Brighton.
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