Fast music

Hugo Williams

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‘Fast Music’ refers as much to the fast dance music that caused Williams to run round the room on the furniture aged three as to the speed of life, thought and to poetry itself, which works harder and faster than ordinary speech. In a poem about his typewriter, the ‘undiscovered islands’ are the many and various extraordinary subjects which rise out of the sea of his daily life, to be caught between the rollers of his beloved Adler Gabriele: ‘Words returning with a bang and a bellto the left-hand margin, pausing for a moment to reflect on the scene.’ ‘Fast Music’ ranges from wide-eyed school days to a full-blown sequence of love sonnets, to an ode to Brighton’s West Pier and the inevitable helter-skelter of fate.

ISBN: 9780571382613 Category:

Description

‘He’s a poet of such intimate charm, such grace and cunning, and such ordinary comic sadness, that he wins your affection and admiration.’ Hermione Lee, Guardian

Fast Music refers as much to the fast dance music that caused Williams to run round the room on the furniture aged three as to the speed of life, thought and to poetry itself, which works harder and faster than ordinary speech. In a poem about his typewriter, the ‘undiscovered islands’ are the many and various extraordinary subjects which rise out of the sea of his daily life, to be caught between the rollers of his beloved Adler Gabriele:
‘Words returning with a bang and a bell
to the left-hand margin,
pausing for a moment to reflect on the scene.’
Fast Music ranges from wide-eyed school days to a full-blown sequence of love sonnets, to an ode to Brighton’s West Pier and the inevitable helter-skelter of fate.

Additional information

Weight 0.125 kg
Dimensions 19.5 × 13 × 0.9 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

72

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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