Tony Williams
@tonywilliams
Novelist & poet. Latest novel COLE THE MAGNIFICENT
Very kind of Tim Turnbull to share some of his recent hallucinations with us, via Red Squirrel Press
Rationalising the spice rack by throwing out things that are out of date. We have a clear winner - bought before we moved here from Sheffield 15 years ago and not used since.
This poem from my 2014 collection The Midlands seemed a bit histrionic at the time, but I feel like the world has grown into it
Very much enjoyed Lidl's 'about 2000-piece' jigsaw. Five missing and two duplicates. 👌
The new bumper issue of Long Poem Magazine is really tremendous. I'm very grateful that it includes my 'Return to Matlock', a piggybacking of Aemilia Lanyer's 'Description of Cooke-ham' or, as you might say, a Lanyerism.
New word just dropped. I do feel affectional about the Grauniad's legendary proofreading.
I'm very much enjoying Andrew Neilson's pamphlet Summers Are Other from Rack Press, particularly the lovely lyric 'The Viaduct' @badlilies.bsky.social
That's like a cross between turning in his grave and rolling in the aisles - he's fuming, but he's also amused, because he knows how inflation works.
Can't quite express how grateful I am to have a poem included in 'Ten Poems from the Peak District' from @candlestickpress.bsky.social - not only because it's a beautiful object, nor that I find myself among poets I deeply admire, but also because... 1/3
I know it's, in one sense, not a laughing matter, but, on the other hand, this paragraph 🤩🤩
The footage from the Sycamore Gap case looks like it was taken by Nicéphore Niépce
Eventually I reached my hotel and dumped my bags, before heading out for a beer and kebab by candlelight
You might have thought it was indeed '100 STRESS', but actually there was a really jolly vibe, a bit like early lockdown. Everyone was in it together. The traffic lights were off so everyone just took turns