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Café des Artistes
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Welcome to the Café des Artistes. Your host, the owner, bartender, master of ceremonies and only other guest: John Hartley Williams. Here you will be entertained and diverted – by bizarre stories of mapless roads and unreal cities, the Ostrich Palisades and the erotic stones of Bonehenge; by a spooked version of Rimbaud’s ‘La Bateau Ivre’; by encounters with Malcolm Lowry, the floating dead, the ‘old men behind the waterfall’ and the knitted poet; by poems about donkey jackets and dancing with donkeys, and a one-sided conversation with a decidedly un-Romantic polar bear two doors down from Dove Cottage.Long celebrated for his ranging, restless imagination, his baroque, elliptical narratives, his manic humour and maverick stance, Williams returns with another invitation to join him for a jug or two of wine in his out-of-kilter universe: a world that is both strange, and strangely familiar. Welcome to the Café des Artistes!
Additional information
| Weight | 0.1 kg |
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| Dimensions | 0.7 × 13 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 80 |
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| Year Published | 2009-4-2 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0224087851 |
| About The Author | John Hartley Williams is an award-winning poet, novelist, essayist and critic. He has published nine collections of poetry, including Blues (2004), two of which have been shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize and he won the Arvon International Poetry Competition in 1983. He has also written a romance, Mystery in Spiderville (2002), and co-edited Teach Yourself Writing Poetry. He teaches English at the Free University of Berlin and has lived in Berlin since 1976. |
He is a strong, sophisticated, funny original. Since 1983, the poems in his collections have explored sex, politics, the wild west, and language in a wide range of styles: formal, direct, swashbucklingly experimental. The mix of traditionalism and ignoring convention shakes you into reading with fresh eyes and mind |
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| Other text | Williams's great skill is to make the places and people he's writing about seem to be absolutely central to the concerns of poetry, now and always |
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