Poetry. The author of TOTTERING STATE and CLEAN & WELL LIT, Tom Raworth originally wrote ACE in Chicago during the winter of 1973 and the early spring of 1974. At that time, an edition of 350 copies were printed, but while the books remained at the printers a freak thuderstorm destroyed all but 35 copies. Although the Figures reprinted ACE in 1977, that edition of this delightful long poem has been unavailble for years. This version by Edge Books includes the original illustrations by Barry Hall. A necessary book for anyone interested in the work of the great English experimentalist poet, ACE deals/ in information/ secret/ you are all/ ready/ for anything.

Author City: Brighton UK

Tom Raworth was born and grew up in London. During the 1970s he traveled and worked in the United states and Mexico, returning to England in 1977 to be Resident Poet at King's College, Cambridge, in which city he lived for many years. Since 1966 he has published more than 40 books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations, in several countries. His graphic work has been shown in France, Italy, and the United States, and he has collaborated and performed with musicians (Steve Lacy, Joëlle Léandre, Steve Nelson-Raney, Esther Roth, Nino Locatelli), painters (Giovanni D'Agostino, Micaëla Henich), and other poets (Franco Beltrametti, Corrado Costa, Dario Villa). In 1991 he was invited to teach at the University of Cape Town: the first European writer to visit there for thirty years. Raworth now lives in Brighton, Sussex.