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About Heathcote Williams

HW is the author of Whale Nation, Sacred Elephant, Falling for a Dolphin, Autogeddon, etc. His new book Badshah Khan: Islamic Peace Warrior was published in UK by Thin Man Press. He's been working on a stage play about Christopher Marlowe, Killing Kit.

For Shelley on the 4th August, His Birthday – Heathcote Williams

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Joseph Severn - Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Poetry sees the starlight smile of children” Shelley said, seeing this as life’s truest wealth. In Shelley’s world the “natural order Has no place for tyrants” – Neutering the beauty of the … [Read more...]

The Curse of the Blinding Worm. A close look at ‘Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook and Me’, by Malcolm McNeill

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Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook, and Me

Colin Wilson read this extraordinary book at a single sitting. He can’t have been an exception. Malcolm McNeill’s Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook and Me sweeps you up into a … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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