This paper offers an overall study of Tom Raworth (b. 1938), one of
England's most attractive and, at the same time, neglected poets. After a
lengthy introduction which makes reference to the hostility towards
innovation inside the British poetry scene as well as to the modernist and
postmodernist foundations of Raworth's art, both his poetry and prose —up
to the publication of Tottering State (1984), his latest volume— are analysed
with some care.
