From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s...

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s the major delineate of the British bard Tom Raworth was a series of ballad sequences, whose main sections have been published as Sentenc to Death (1987) Eternal Sections (1993) and Survival (1994) My intention here is to elaborate a certain number of commentary on this project in the form of loosely thematic readings, in which I attempt to draw out and explore patterns of image and idea that can contribute to my and others' understanding of these metrical compositions If the context were a verse more obviously discursive or settl than Raworth's this might vigorous like an ...