tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post114115518199341348..comments2024-01-23T18:21:17.066+00:00Comments on Surroundings: More on Tom RaworthRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17046788730174617923noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-1144255575160178052006-04-05T17:46:00.000+01:002006-04-05T17:46:00.000+01:00Thanks Luke. I don't know when you made your comme...Thanks Luke. I don't know when you made your comment. I'm slow on investigating my archives, so sorry if it's been weeks.<BR/><BR/>I'll see what I can pick up of Raworth's. I don't really know Lee Harwood's work either. I've seen it but haven't investigated it. <BR/><BR/>I like your comment on Raworth:<BR/><BR/>"He combines the process/experiment with genuine content."<BR/><BR/>That's also what I enjoy about Ashbery at his best.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17046788730174617923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-1144158903705483172006-04-04T14:55:00.000+01:002006-04-04T14:55:00.000+01:00Hi Rob,Enjoying the blog and your work. And kudos ...Hi Rob,<BR/><BR/>Enjoying the blog and your work. And kudos for the sincere effort to appreciate Raworth. Speaking as someone who dislikes hardcore experimentalism (such as J.H. Prynne's work) - I still count Tom Raworth among my favourite contemporary poets. I started reading him a few years ago with his appearance in the Penguin Modern Poets series (no. 19, 1973) where he appears alongside John Ashbery and Lee Harwood (worth picking up in a second-hand bookshop). His early work is a little less opaque.<BR/><BR/>There's a lot to savour in his Collected Poems - and he's always been one of the poets (along with Roy Fisher, Harwood, Ashbery and so on) who has prevented me from getting fed up with postmodern / high-modernist stuff altogether. He combines the process/experiment with genuine content.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, enough blathering. Keep up the good work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com