Pistol Sonnets

Pistol Sonnets by John Hartley Williams

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If there’s been something missing in your life since William Burroughs went to the great needle exchange in the sky, then perhaps John Hartley Williams is the author for you

* The Sunday Herald *

Language in Williams is explored and kicked about and generally dragged through the mud … And I kind of liked that.

-- Ken Smith * BBC, Kaleidoscope *

Williams grabs our attention instantly with his humour, his outlandish gifts for imagery … and his narrative skills. Who else would dare to corrupt Keats’ Ode to Autumn: Season of yellow sputum, missed cabs and recklessness

-- Richard Tyrell * Poetry Review *

Pistol Sonnets … a continuous adoption and shedding of identities – actor, lover, troubadour, interloper, movie private eye – in the service of language…Even at their maddest the poems retain an unexpected civility and hospitality, which contributes to the growing sense that Williams is an original whose now substantial body of work deserves to be widely enjoyed.

-- Sean O’Brien * TLS *

Pistol Sonnets … are a revelation. In their rapid fire shifts of tone and register, their loose, conversational tumble of line upon line, their crackling insouciance, they are less like (Kenneth) Koch and more like a heterosexual vesrion of Frank O’Hara. (Williams’s) poems are marvellously unEnglish and more than a little mad in a way that is wholly to be encouraged.

-- Andrew Johnston * London Magazine *

John Hartley Williams is the lord of misrule come to rage through the tranquil groves of English poetry, he is Holofernes re-cast as Feste, through him the gale of linguistic, rhythmic inventiveness blows high.

-- John Lucas * Staple Magazine *

John Hartley Williams grew up in London. He worked as a teacher in France, the former Jugoslavija, and West Africa, and has made his home in Berlin since 1976. Williams has published many collections of poetry. A retrospective volume, The Ship, was published by Salt in 2007. A novel, Death Comes For The Poets, co-written with Matthew Sweeney, will appear from the Muswell Press in 2012 as will a new collection of poems Assault On The Clouds from Shoestring.

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ISBN 13	9781844718467
ISBN 10	1844718468
Title	Pistol Sonnets
Author	John Hartley Williams
Series	Salt Modern Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2012-03-15
Number of pages	128
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