Tom Beckett is internationally known for his work as an editor, publisher, poet and interviewer. In the 1980s, his journal The Difficulties was instrumental in the promotion of Language Poetry. UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS, 1978-2006, was published by Meritage Press in 2006. More recently Otoliths published three volumes of E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S interviews curated by Beckett, and a collection of 4 long poems called Parts and Other Pieces, and DIPSTICK (DIPTYCH) was brought out by Marsh Hawk Press in 2014.