Creative Matters

Love Plus Anarchy

Authors

  • Heathcote Williams

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5463/ejlw.3.80

Keywords:

Poetry, images

Abstract

Here’s something to offend everyone – which should make us think about grounds of taking offence. In an invitation to self-reflect, Heathcote Williams' poems ask more of readers than usual: it’s part of what makes them so interesting for life writing.

Author Biography

Heathcote Williams

Actor, fire-eater, magician, poet, painter, playwright, sculptor, film-maker – Heathcote William's polymath life whirls around different arts without losing a core and recognisable identity. Maybe he makes one out of the whirling, an uncommon art. One might also describe him as endlessly inventive, a stirrer-up of the complacent, a magnificent railer against monarchy, an eloquent denouncer of imperialism, a revolutionary who challenges even the conventions of subversion and who leaves no familiarity unturned. Award-winning and acclaimed, it can be uncomfortable reading, His work is also funny, clever, trenchant, bold, uncompromising, passionate, jaw-droppingly provocative and so agile in critique it is acrobatic.

Published

2014-02-14

Issue

Vol. 3 (2014): EJLW

Section

Creative Matters

Copyright (c) 2014 Heathcote Williams

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