Poets who have read at Morden Tower
The first list of writiers at the Tower was compiled in 1974: ten years after the first reading on the 16th of June 1964. This was possibly one of the most interesting periods in English - American - Scottish - Irish Writing, in the sense that the seeds were being cast furiously on shores, and as will be seen by even the swiftest glance at this list, the Morden Tower was playing no small part in the adventure. All of these writers were enthusiatic about the Morden Tower, some of them like Ed Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, Tony Harrison,Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney read many times.
In the first two years Basil Bunting attended every Morden Tower reading and after that whenever he was at home he continued to grace the evenings with his presence. He made many friends at Morden Tower.
The list is an ongoing project, we are aware that we haven't included everyone and hope to put this right. Please email from the contact page if we have missed you or someone you know.
There have been many singer song writers and exprimental musicians at the Morden Tower, we hope to include them all in due course.
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Tom Raworth
Bill Grifiths
Basil Bunting Poetry Centre
Allen Ginsberg Trust
NOFI with Richard Bishop's
Live Performance
at Morden Tower
Jumpin Hot Club
John Hegley
Star And Shadow
North East Cultral Diversity Art Forum
Poetry Kit
Poetry Scotland
Poets who have read at Morden Tower
- Paul Bailey
- George Barker
- Tanar Baybars
- Martin Bell
- Asa Benveniste
- Ted Berrigan
- Earle Bimey
- Robert Bly
- Victor Bockris
- Melvyn Bragg
- Pete Brown
- Tom Buchan
- Basil Bunting
- Bill Butler
- Sid Chaplin
- Thomas Clark
- Bob Cobbing
- Tony Connor
- Gregory Corso
- Robert Creeley
- Andrew Crozier
- Ivor Cutler
- Allen de Loach
- Ed Dorn
- Fred Dorn
- Robert Duncan
- Nell Dunn
- Alistair Elliot
- Clayton Eschleman
- Elaine Feinstein
- Julie Felix
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Roy Fisher
- Don Gardner
- Robert Garioch
- Gerry Gilbert
- Allen Ginsberg
- Denis Goacher
- Ralph Gustafson
- John Hall
- Michael Hamburger
- Ian Hamilton
- Tony Harrison
- Lee Harwood
- Spike Hawkins
- Seamus Heaney
- Chris Hebron
- Hamish Henderson
- Adrian Henry
- Geoffery Hill
- George Hitchcock
- Anselm Hollo
- Glyn Hughes
- Ted Hughes
- Libby Houston
- David Ignatow
- Alan Jackson
- Tony Jackson
- Peter Jay
- D.G.Jones
- Pierre Joris
- Lionel Kearns
- Milton Kessler
- John Keys
- Galway Kinnell
- Boyd Lichfield
- Alexis Lykiard
- Christopher Logue
- George MacBeth
- Norma MacCaig
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Roger McGough
- Tom McGrath
- Barry MacSweeney
- Derek Mahon
- Christopher Middleton
- Adrian Mitchell
- Stuart Montgomery
- Edwin Morgan
- Pete Morgan
- Peter Mortimer
- Eric Mottram
- Norman Nicholson
- Koef Nielson
- Eric Northy
- Alice Notley
- Jeff Nuttall
- Brain Patten
- Tom Pickard
- Omar Pound
- J.H. Prynne
- Rod Pybus
- Carl Rakosi
- Tom Raworth
- Herbert Read
- Fred Reed
- Tim Reynolds
- Jerome Rothenburg
- Carol Rubsenstein
- Micheal Shayer
- Jon Silkin
- James Simmons
- Lous Simpson
- Ken Smith
- Stevie Smith
- John Temple
- Lorna Tracy
- Alexander Trocchi
- Gael Turnbull
- Shimon Tzabar
- Anne Waldman
- Anthony Ward
- Hugo Williams
- Jonathan Williams
- Milton Williams
- David Wright
- Jay Wright
- Andrew Wylie
The Above list was compiled
in May 1974 by David Westerley
who admits there may
be some missed out.
The Following list
includes those since
- Peter Adegbie
- Fleur Adcock
- Gillian Allnut
- Andrew Aidan Dun
- Peter Armstrong
- Simon Armitage
- Keith Armstrong
- Jane Augustine
- Michael Ayton
- Jean Baker
- Christopher Barnes
- Peter Bennet
- Earle Birney
- Sir Richard Bishop
- Michael Blackburn
- Alison Brackenbury
- Alan C.Brown
- Jean Binta Breeze
- John Burnside
- Gorden Burn
- Richard Caddel
- Kevin Cadwallender
- Matthew Caley
- Angela Carter
- George Charlton
- John Cayley
- Brendan Cleary
- Ira Cohen
- Andy Croft
- Andrew Crumey
- Tony Curtis
- Adam Czerniawski
- Julia Darling
- Carole Anne Duffy
- Junot Diaz
- Josephine Dickinson
- Fred D'Aguiar
- Helen Dunmore
- Arjen Duinker
- Paul Durcan
- Lauris Edmond
- Sally Evans
- Exploding Alphabets
- Ruth Fainlight
- Alec Finlay
- Adam Fish
- Kate Fox
- Linda France
- Cynthia Fuller
- Roger Garfitt
- Desmond Graham
- Lavinia Greenlaw
- Bill Grifiths
- Alison Groggin
- Tom Hadaway
- Rebecah Hall
- Maggie Hannon
- Michael Harper
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Geoff Hattersley
- Bobbie Hawkins
- A Hawk And A Hacksaw
- John Hegley
- Jeremy Hilton
- Jack Hirschman
- Kostas Hrisos
- May Hobbs
- Michael Horovitz
- David Hopkins
- W.H.Herbert
- Alan Hull
- Maggie Hannen
- Orania Segalas Hamilton
- Bob Hawkins
- May Hobbs
- Kathleen Jamie
- Jazzfinger
- Wang Jiaxin
- Deviin Johnson
- Nicholas Johnson
- Joan Johnston
- Jackie Kay
- Richard Kell
- Tom Kelly
- August Kleinzahler
- Kenneth Koch
- Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Tom Leonard
- Connie Lewcock
- S.J.Litherland
- Richard Livermore
- La Loca
- Liz Lochead
- Christopher Logue
- William Martin
- Jack Mapanje
- Emma McGordon
- Sheree Mack
- Ian MacMillan
- Bejan Matur
- Derek Mahon
- David Meltzer
- Rod Mengham
- Geraldine Monk
- Vince Morrison
- John Montague
- Henry Normal
- Sean O'Brien
- Don Paterson
- Evangeline Patterson
- Tom Paulin
- Ellen Phethean
- Mrs Pilgrim
- Rachel Blau du Plessis
- Jeff Price
- Dmitri Prigov
- Patrick Pritchet
- Jack Purdon
- Rodney Pybus
- Meredith Quarterman
- Kathleen Raine
- Angela Readman
- Tadeusz Rozewicz
- Carole Rumens
- Sandi Russell
- Myra Schneider
- Sudeep Sen
- Pedro Serrano
- Elena Shvarts
- Lem Sissay
- Allen Sillitoe
- Collin Simms
- Iain Crichton Smith
- Martin Stannard
- Pauline Stainer
- Matthew Sweeney
- Michael Standen
- Anne Stevenson
- Attila The Stockbroker
- Paul Summers
- Kim Taplin
- Adam Thomas
- Chris Torrance
- Poetry Vandals
- Graeme Walker
- Clara May Warden
- Keith Fuller Whitman
- John Hartley Williams
- Mike Wilkin
- Margret Wilkinson
- Kit Wright
- Luke Wright
- Heather Young