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“all true poetry is extrilist poetry”
‘Williams is the poet who first excited me about the inexhaustible possibilities of poetry.
He still believes that poetry is about the celebration of the imagination,
strange stories and odd phrases that lodge in a fold of the mind
and flower one day into something exotic,unnerving and not at all proper’
David Kennedy, The Wide Skirt
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Recent poem
Dan Dare at the Cosmos Ballroom
amor vincit omnia
Venus lies ahead -
ball of mists and disenchanted fruitfulness,
too hot for charity, too steamy for reproach,
my mission crystalline as snow:
to conquer what has always conquered us.
Airlock doors slide open. They reveal
the Mekon, president of Love Unexpurgated,
a peagreen Humpty Dumpty on a flying plate,
vestigial legs suggesting
toxic misadventures at the ante-natal stage,
the sonic scalpel of [...]
Recent Publication / Article
The Ship
Salt Publishing 2007
In this terrific book John Hartley Williams gathers together a collection of largely unpublished work dating back as far as 1958, and ending in 1982. It is not simply an ‘early selected’ poems, with everything arranged in chronological order, but is a coherent and new collection, epitomised by the title poem The Ship. [...]