Chords

Raymond Crump

Raymond Crump’s poems were first published in The English Intelligencer – a hugely influential avant-garde worksheet that ran between 1966 and 1968. A chapbook was published by the EEDIN Press, Saint Louis, in 1970. Writing of these early poems J.H. Prynne praised Crump’s delicate use of rhyme – ‘glances of sound as echoes of place & touch’. Part I of Chords selects from this early work. Part II presents 20 new poems, written since 2009.