Heathcote Williams (1941-2017) was an English poet, playwright, actor, and visionary anarchist. He authored the bestselling, investigative book-length poems Whale Nation, Sacred Elephant, and … [Read more...]
For Shelley on the 4th August, His Birthday – Heathcote Williams
“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
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...]
