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Title
Bright river yonder

Author
John Hartley Williams

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Language
English

UK Publication Date
19970801

Description

Bright River Yonder is a baroque Wild West poetry adventure: in which a mysterious silver dollar is passed from hand to hand, from poem to poem. John Hartley Williams's second collection is indescribable and utterly compelling. Its centrepiece, the long poem 'Ephraim Destiny's Perfectly Utter Darkness', won the 5000 first prize in the Arvon/Sothebys national poetry competition judged by Basil Bunting, Michael Baldwin, George Barker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrian Mitchell, Peter Redgrove and Stephen Spender.

John Hartley Williams (1942-2014) published four collections with Bloodaxe (all now out of print) after making his debut with Chatto, and was co-translator, with Hilde Ottschofski, of Marin Sorescu's Censored Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2001). He won first prize in the Arvon International Poetry Competition in 1983 with 'Ephraim Destiny's Perfectly Utter Darkness', the centrepiece of his second collection Bright River Yonder (Bloodaxe Books, 1987), which was followed by Cornerless People (1990), Double (1994), and Canada (1997), a Poetry Book Society Choice shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. His later collections were mostly published by Cape: Spending Time with Walter (2001), Blues (2004), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and Caf des Artistes (2009). His other books included a surrealist film noir thriller, Mystery in Spiderville (Vintage), two collections from Salt Publlishing, Pistol Sonnets (2002), The Ship (2007), and his final collection, Assault on the Clouds (Shoestring Press, 2012). He also collaborated on several projects with Matthew Sweeney, including their handbook Teach Yourself Writing Poetry (1997) and the novel Death Comes for the Poets (Muswell Press, 2012). Born in Cheshire, he grew up in London, studied at the universities of Nottingham and London. He moved to Berlin in 1976, and taught at the Free University of Berlin for many years. He also lived and worked in France, Francophone Africa and Yugoslavia.

Type
BOOK

Country of Publication
England

Number of Pages
87

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