Welcome to the website of poet Tony Williams.
My first full collection, The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street, is published by Salt Publishing.
Here's the blurb:
Elegant, intelligent, charming and memorable, these poems reinvent the pastoral for dark times, crossing the contemporary English landscape from the city to provincial towns and villages. Their stylish and original treatments of the dreamy, the nightmarish and the absurd are both accessible and striking, both serious and very funny.
And here's what some people have said about it:
“A voice with a unique lyric heft, its subtle praise-making poised between pity and dislocation.”
W.N. Herbert
“Powerfully evocative of people and places and, in turn, both playful and moving.”
Robyn Bolam
“I like his poems for their strange beauty, and for the way in which they find intimate and unblinking truths in highly poetic strategies and material.”
James Sheard
I'm available for workshops and readings – email me if you're interested.
