Pistol Sonnets

John Hartley Williams grew up in London. He worked as a teacher in France, the former Jugoslavija, and West Africa, and has made his home in Berlin since 1976. Williams has published many collections of poetry. A retrospective volume, The Ship, was published by Salt in 2007. A novel, Death Comes For The Poets, co-written with Matthew Sweeney, will appear from the Muswell Press in 2012 as will a new collection of poems Assault On The Clouds from Shoestring.

If there’s been something missing in your life since William Burroughs went to the great needle exchange in the sky, then perhaps John Hartley Williams is the author for you.

• Our Hero Hello, My Lovely Nothing Like a Good Old-Fashioned English Murder Mystery Somewhere on the Polluted Mediterranean Lovely Delicious You Statement Blue Funk Roadside Rescue The Excuse Guest List Dimanches After Hours Love in the Aspect of Neptune Everything Was Fine, Until . . . Athens Catalpa Tree Pastoral R-Evolution Almost the Finale of the Movie, then This Had to Happen Naples Jungle Drums Zeitgeist The Devourer Let Me Jog You Epithalamion For Augustine The Questions Troubadour Love Poem for the Room Newton’s Loft The Bastille Whoops, Wrong Bathroom Robert Says Muse She Yes Feels Like It, Sometimes . . . To Let The Brain of the Tragedian Amours de GarageSepia Alcohol The Night I Got Hypnotised at the Pinprick Cafe Music While You Walk Poem Ending with a Title by Benjamin Peret In Wonderland Museum Piece Sad Cases Writer’s Block Could Have Been Me . . . Actually . . . It Was Identity Card Les Extrilistes Thoughts on the Virus Gospel Truth The Time Little Bitty Pretty One The Candidate Hopscotch Very Droll Gallery Coincidence Obituary Eskimo It Is Not Sufficient to Be Elsewhere in Order Not to Be Here No Title Paint This One, Picasso The Proving Ground Misprision Apres Moi Tubtime How to Get There Cave Drawing Lip Service Tools of the Trade The Mounting Stair Match Palais de Leaves A Slowboat to China Twelfth Century Rag Kissacop Those Friendly Fauna Pistol Sonnet Season Nearly There Same Again, Please Negative Terminal From the Other Side On the Waterfront Quixotic The Inventor Speaks Turtle Beach Shake Up in Araby Tie Burn Lift Thalassa Poetry Closing Wrap Up