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Tom Raworth Project

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A platform for writing in public space, the Tom Raworth Project commemorates writer, printer and publisher Tom Raworth (1938–2017). The installation is publicly accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is located on Bodney Road, Hackney.

Visits are encouraged — you can find the exact location here on Google Maps.

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Collected Poems: Tom Raworth (Poetry Pleiade)
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OCT 2023 — AUG 2024:
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Tom Raworth: Moving
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The Tom Raworth Project is a text-based installation which presents work by Tom Raworth. Each month the display features new writing to be enjoyed for free. 

The installation is publicly accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is located on Bodney Road, Hackney.

The project was made possible by the support of the Raworth family and funding from the Hackney Central Impact and Ideas Fund. It was designed and produced by Polytechnic, Mitre & Monday’s and Manson’s Press.

Installation images

Get in touch

View on Google Maps

The Tom Raworth Project commemorates the fact that the Anglo-Irish writer, printer and publisher Tom Raworth (1938–2017) began his serious engagement with these activities while living in Hackney. Raworth moved to Amhurst Road from Chalk Farm in February 1960, having taught himself how to set type the previous year. He founded Matrix Press in 1961, publishing three issues of a magazine, Outburst, and books by Pete Brown, Piero Heliczer (a copublication with Heliczer’s Dead Language Press) and Anselm Hollo, while also starting to publish his own poetry and prose in magazines and journals.

Matrix continued when Raworth left Hackney for Golders Green in late winter 1963: books by Edward Dorn and David Ball were published in spring/summer 1964, after which, Raworth moved to Barnet and, in 1965, began publishing as Goliard Press in partnership with the artist, engraver and filmmaker Barry Hall. Goliard published Raworth’s first collection, The Relation Ship (with monoprints by Hall), in 1966. The second edition of the book (London: Cape Goliard; New York: Grossman, 1969) was chosen by William Plomer for the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize.

The author of over sixty books, Raworth’s many publications include Tottering State (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1984; 2nd ed., London: Paladin, 1988; 3rd ed., Oakland, CA: O Books, 2000), Clean & Well Lit: Selected Poems 1987–1995 (New York: Roof Books, 1996), Collected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet, 2003), Earn Your Milk: Collected Prose (Cambridge: Salt, 2009) and As When: A Selection (Manchester: Carcanet, 2015) (the latter title includes a capsule biography in its Introduction).

As of January 2023, Raworth’s archive is being catalogued for housing in the University of Notre Dame’s poetry archives in Notre Dame, Indiana; his website is archived here.

He is much missed by many.

— Miles Champion, 2022
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Project supported by Hackney Council. Design by Polytechnic.
Fabrication by Mitre & Mondays. Silk-screening by Manson’s Press. Photography by Thomas Adank
Scanned pages – Tom Raworth Project
Letter tiles – Tom Raworth Project
Tom Raworth Project (detail)

ProgrammeAbout

Tom Raworth Project

A platform for writing in public space, the Tom Raworth Project commemorates writer, printer and publisher Tom Raworth (1938–2017). The installation is publicly accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is located on Bodney Road, Hackney.

Visits are encouraged — you can find the exact location here on Google Maps.

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The Tom Raworth Project is a text-based installation which presents work by Tom Raworth. Each month the display features new writing to be enjoyed for free. 

The installation is publicly accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is located on Bodney Road, Hackney.

The project was made possible by the support of the Raworth family and funding from the Hackney Central Impact and Ideas Fund. It was designed and produced by Polytechnic, Mitre & Monday’s and Manson’s Press.

Installation images

Get in touch

View on Google Maps

The Tom Raworth Project commemorates the fact that the Anglo-Irish writer, printer and publisher Tom Raworth (1938–2017) began his serious engagement with these activities while living in Hackney. Raworth moved to Amhurst Road from Chalk Farm in February 1960, having taught himself how to set type the previous year. He founded Matrix Press in 1961, publishing three issues of a magazine, Outburst, and books by Pete Brown, Piero Heliczer (a copublication with Heliczer’s Dead Language Press) and Anselm Hollo, while also starting to publish his own poetry and prose in magazines and journals.

Matrix continued when Raworth left Hackney for Golders Green in late winter 1963: books by Edward Dorn and David Ball were published in spring/summer 1964, after which, Raworth moved to Barnet and, in 1965, began publishing as Goliard Press in partnership with the artist, engraver and filmmaker Barry Hall. Goliard published Raworth’s first collection, The Relation Ship (with monoprints by Hall), in 1966. The second edition of the book (London: Cape Goliard; New York: Grossman, 1969) was chosen by William Plomer for the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize.

The author of over sixty books, Raworth’s many publications include Tottering State (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1984; 2nd ed., London: Paladin, 1988; 3rd ed., Oakland, CA: O Books, 2000), Clean & Well Lit: Selected Poems 1987–1995 (New York: Roof Books, 1996), Collected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet, 2003), Earn Your Milk: Collected Prose (Cambridge: Salt, 2009) and As When: A Selection (Manchester: Carcanet, 2015) (the latter title includes a capsule biography in its Introduction).

As of January 2023, Raworth’s archive is being catalogued for housing in the University of Notre Dame’s poetry archives in Notre Dame, Indiana; his website is archived here.

He is much missed by many.

— Miles Champion, 2022
Project supported by Hackney Council
Design by Polytechnic
Fabrication by Mitre & Mondays
Silk-screening by Manson’s Press
Photography by Thomas Adank
Scanned pages – Tom Raworth Project
Letter tiles – Tom Raworth Project
Tom Raworth Project (detail)