Rockdrill is a series of unusual new audio CDs commissioned by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck College, London, & produced by Colin Still and Birdie Hall of Optic Nerve.
    The series includes the work by British and American poets, and combines new and archival recordings. Each CD is remarkable for the scope and range of material included, and for the quality of production. This unique new sound library is scheduled to grow in directions suggested by the initial list.

Rockdrill 1: ROBERT CREELEY I Know a Man

'I write poems because it pleases me, very much - I think that is true. In any case, we live as we can, each day another - there is no use in counting. No more, say, to live than what there is, to live. I want the poem as close to this fact as I can bring it; or it, me.'

Table of Contents

1. Return

2. For an Anniversary

3. The Europeans

4. The Revelation

5. Chasing the Bird

6. The Changes

7. Stomping with Catullus

8. The Picnic

9. The Sentence

10. Preface to 'For Love'

11. A Song

12. The Crisis

13. The Innocence

14. After Lorca

15. The Dishonest Mailman

16. The Immoral Proposition

17. The Conspiracy

18. I Know a Man

19. The Disappointment

20. Naughty Boy

21. The Whip

22. All That is Lovely in Men

23. A Form of Women

24. Please

25. Oh No

26. Goodbye

27. A Marriage

28. Ballad of the Despairing Husband

29. If You

30. Heroes

31. The Door

32. Kore

33. The Rain

34. Midnight

35. Mind's Heart

36. Love Comes Quietly

37. The People

38. The Wife

39. For Love

40. Preface to 'Words'

41. The Rhythm

42. The Mountains in the Desert

43. For W.C.W

44. I

45. Something

46. Anger

47. The Answer

48. Some Echoes

49. A Prayer

50. Joy

51. A Picture

52. Here

53. Intervals

54. From 'Song' (Allen Ginsberg)

55. As real as thinking

56. The Moon

57. Names

58. America

59. Mazatlan: Sea

60. B-

61. Four

62. Here

63. 'Do you think...'

64. Massachusetts

65. For Benny and Sabina

66. Rain

67. Rain [2]

68. As Now it Would be Snow

69. For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley