Robert Calvert considered himself first and foremost as a poet - with or without sound/music - period. And that was despite the fact that he was known throughout his life as a R`n R muscian - who did some brilliant lyrics...(but hey, who cares about lyrics in rock music anyway...) Calvert himself referred to this public misconception from time to time - as you can see on the QUOTES pages - where you will also find more infos on several of the works that appear on the following pages.

Quite in accordance to the strange fate of his career, even more of his literary and theatrical plans were dropped or left behind unfinished than other of his projects in the music area. Being an artist with a talent for words AND music and always keen on mixing them, it's of course hard to draw a distinctive line between these territories. This process started very early on, when Calvert became Hawkwind's 'resident poet' in the early 70's, reciting his poetry to the band's sound-collages - some of these poems also appeared later in his first collection of poetry entitled Centigrade 232.



This page of the WORDS section is presenting the published works of Calvert - which is mostly poetry - prose, apart from the only published novel HYPE, seems to have been a minor field in Calvert's literary activities.

The poems - apart from the one's performed with Hawkwind - were taken from the two publications CENTIGRADE 232 (1977) and THE EARTH RITUAL (1986).

Other poems, unpublished or published in very rare and now unavailable magazines can be found HERE.



After Calvert's departure from Hawkwind in `78 Calvert conceived various shows that consisted of a mixture of sketches, stand-up-comedy, recitations of his poetry and songs from his solo-albums & recordings with Hawkwind - exploring how far he can take the audience in this unusual but always witty and inspired mix of contemporary poetry- and rock entertainment. A selection of those texts can be found HERE.