Podcast appearances and mentions of Tom Pickard

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Jake Leither talks with Tom Pickard of The LeMusique Room about their upcoming Summerfield Amphitheater.

Basil Bunting (1900-1985) Nasty little words, nasty long words, it's unhealthy. I want to wash when I meet a poet. They're Reds, addicts, all delinquents. What you write is rot. You can enjoy this poem as a joke, or as a caricature of a very common attitude towards poetry. Writing is not work in the way being a bus conductor is work, and if the ten year old son can do it and rhyme, and the school teacher thinks that the poetry isn't good, and after all, school teachers know about this stuff, what claim does the poet have to any type of excellence, let alone any financial reward. But beyond the grim humour is something else: the issue of public funding for the arts, and poetry especially. The Chairman, for all his bluster, has a point, or a series of points. And if instead of dismissing him as an uneducated and unsympathetic whatever, you try and refute or answer his points, you might find the exercise not as straight forward as it seems. I've always assumed the Tom In Question is Tom Pickard but I have no evidence for believing that. This is taken from the excellent Bloodaxe edition of Bunting's Complete poems.

Poets Maureen McLaneDavid Ferry, Tom Pickard and Liz Berry in conversation at the Poetry Now DLR Book Mountains to Sea Book Festival 2015 in Dun Laoghaire

Poet Alice Lyons, curator of Poetry Now 2015, part of the DLR Mountains to Sea Book Festival on poetry and poets Liz Berry, Tom Pickard and David Ferry.

Amy King, Julia Bloch, and Tom Pickard join Al Filreis to discuss before a live audience Basil Bunting's 1977 performance of Walt Whitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking."

Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Julia Bloch, Tom Pickard, and Amy King.

Playwright and screenwriter Lee Hall chooses Briggflatts, a poem by Basil Bunting. Plus archive interviews with Elton John, Tom Pickard and Basil Bunting himself.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A poetry reading by Tom Pickard, Chicago Review Reader, as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

Tom Pickard, “one of the livest truest poets of Great Britain” (Allen Ginsberg), is the author of nine books of poetry spanning four decades: from High on the Walls (1968) to The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood Editions, 2007).  He has, in addition, made several documentaries, including We Make Ships (1988) about labor history in the north of England and Birmingham is What I Think With (1991) about the poet Roy Fisher. Hillary Gravendyk (Co-curator Autumn 2006-Spring 2008) is a PhD candidate in literature at UC Berkeley, writing her dissertation 20th century American poetry and phenomenology. She is the 2006 and 2008 recipient of the Eisner Prize in Poetry, and her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, Octopus Magazine, Tarpaulin Sky, The Colorado Review and other publications; her chapbook of poems The Naturalist was published by Achiote Press in 2008. She also co-curates Poems Against War, sponsored by the Berkeley Architecture department. Hillary loves undergraduate teaching, and is the recent recipient of both the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award, and the university-wide Teaching Effectiveness Award.  

Tom Pickard, “one of the livest truest poets of Great Britain” (Allen Ginsberg), is the author of nine books of poetry spanning four decades: from High on the Walls (1968) to The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood Editions, 2007).  He has, in addition, made several documentaries, including We Make Ships (1988) about labor history in the north of England and Birmingham is What I Think With (1991) about the poet Roy Fisher. Hillary Gravendyk (Co-curator Autumn 2006-Spring 2008) is a PhD candidate in literature at UC Berkeley, writing her dissertation 20th century American poetry and phenomenology. She is the 2006 and 2008 recipient of the Eisner Prize in Poetry, and her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, Octopus Magazine, Tarpaulin Sky, The Colorado Review and other publications; her chapbook of poems The Naturalist was published by Achiote Press in 2008. She also co-curates Poems Against War, sponsored by the Berkeley Architecture department. Hillary loves undergraduate teaching, and is the recent recipient of both the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award, and the university-wide Teaching Effectiveness Award.