About Tom Raworth
Thomas Moore Raworth was an English-Irish poet, publisher, editor, and teacher who published over 40 books of poetry and prose during his life. His work has been translated and published in many countries. Raworth was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival. In 1965, while working as an operator at the international telephone exchange, Raworth and Barry Hall set up Goliard Press, which published Charles Olson's first British collection. Raworth's first book, The Relation Ship (1966), won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize. He also founded Matrix Press at this time, publishing small books by Dorn, David Ball, Piero Heliczer, and others. But after the first year, he transferred to the Masters program and in 1970 was awarded an M.A. in the Theory and Practice of Literary Translation.
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