American Porn By Heathcote Williams Information

AMERICAN PORN by Heathcote Williams

AMERICAN PORN…

Is a continuation of works addressing major global events by legendary poet and political commentator, Heathcote Williams.

‘Scourge of the establishment for 50 years, Heathcote Williams is back with a vengeance…’   The Independent 2016

The world was shocked by the election of President Trump but was it really that surprising? In this timely collection of ‘investigative poems’ about American history, culture and politics, Heathcote Williams suggests — with characteristic wit and literary invention — that a nation which owes its very name to an early Italian pornographer, and which has been steeped for centuries in violence, artifice and greed, has reached its apotheosis in selecting such a leader.

Contents include: The United States of Porn; President Donald J.Trump, World Emperor; Snuff Films at The White House; The White House Fly and Hollywoodland

Fact File: Williams’s greatest fans include Jeremy Hardy and Al Pacino; he was a celebrity guest in the last episode of Friends; he writes songs with Marianne Faithful; Bob Hoskins taught him fire-eating and he is a fully paid up member of the magic circle.

Biographical details: Eton and Oxford educated, few would have anticipated his life-long devotion to anti-establishment causes, including running the infamous Rough Tough Cream Puff squatting ‘estate agency’ in the 1970s.

Recent Press:

Whale Nation author Williams hit the headlines again in 2016 with Brexit Boris – From Mayor to Nightmare published by Public reading Rooms:

‘Scourge of the establishment for 50 years, Heathcote Williams is back with a vengeance…’

The Independent 2016

‘Williams is a gadfly, wit, dazzler, libertine, an erudite, mellifluous polemicist, anarchist, republican, anti-war, vegetarian Puck with a reverence for nature, an empathy for the marginal and a remarkable capacity for the imaginative verbal lash.’

Timothy O’Grady, Irish Times, 2016

Format & Extent: Paperback 136pp

Dimensions: 229 x 152mm

ISBN: 978-0-9930141-8-5

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