Poet John Hartley Williams, long celebrated for his ranging, restless imagination, his baroque, elliptical narratives, his manic humour and maverick stance, returns with another invitation to join him for a jug or two of wine in his out-of-kilter universe.

Cafe des Artistes

Literature & Fiction

WILLIAMS, John Hartley

Poetry

JONATHAN CAPE.

Ignoble sentiments

Arc Publications

A comprehensive guide to writing poetry Write Poetry - and Get It Published is a user-friendly and comprehensive guide written by two well-published poets that will prove indispensible if you're seeking creative guidance, inspiration and practical advice. Covering everything from mood, style and tone to poetry on the internet, this fully updated edition will help you find your voice. Containing straightforward advice and the very latest on prizes, festivals and performance poetry, this book will enable an aspiring or seasoned poet alike to gain the confidence and necessary knowledge to write and publish compelling poetry. Write Poetry and Get it Published includes: Chapter 1: What does it take to be a poet? Chapter 2: Bump-starting the poem Chapter 3: A challenge to the reader: groundwork exercises Chapter 4: Getting started: working arrangements Chapter 5: I gotta use words when I talk to you Chapter 6: Letters, alphabets and lists Chapter 7: Visualizing Chapter 8: Drafting and revision Chapter 9: Using models Chapter 10: The co-operative approach Chapter 11: Subject matter Chapter 12: Context, mood and tone Chapter 13: Writing in different modes Chapter 14: Style Chapter 15: Getting the rhymes to chose you Chapter 16: It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing Chapter 17: Translation Chapter 18: Writing for children Chapter 19: Getting published Chapter 20: ipoems and cyber verse Chapter 21: Reading aloud Chapter 22: Poetry prizes and festivals Chapter 23: ars poetica ABOUT THE SERIES The Teach Yourself Creative Writing series helps aspiring authors tell their story. Covering a range of genres from science fiction and romantic novels, to illustrated children's books and comedy, this series is packed with advice, exercises and tips for unlocking creativity and improving your writing. And because we know how daunting the blank page can be, we set up the Just Write online community at tyjustwrite, for budding authors and successful writers to connect and share.

Write Poetry And Get It Published (Teach Yourself)

Sweeney, Matthew

Teach Yourself

John Hartley Williams was an English poet marooned in Berlin, where he lived for most of his life, through times of great upheaval and change. The streets he knew in West Berlin used to peter out in a dead arena of cobbles and waste ground blanked off by the Wall. 'Real-existing socialism', whichever way you pointed, was drüben - over there. The poems in Double are located somewhere in between. As the dilapidation of one half of the city vanishes, Williams was troubled by "normalisation". All traces of an alternative way of doing things are being erased. The poems re&#64258;ect the presence of that invisible stranger on the other side of the Wall, whose presence could always be felt, even if symbolically denied. A denial now becoming fact. He connects his adopted home with the London of his childhood and youth, and with what a city means on a personal level, through poems about love, death and memories of an earlier time, through memory within memory, desire within desire.

Double

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

In Canada, poems arrive out of the ether like the fabled, lantern-jawed Mountie coming to the rescue out of nowhere. Others are on their way back into the ether, transmissions from the brain of an uneasy redman. These are poems that make you feel the hairs on a pony's neck.
Canada opens in the backwoods of autobiography and narrative, then reports crisply on calls of sex and desire. After crossing the frontier, a final movement blows innocence off the map for good and all.

Canada