Thin Man Press – Public Reading Rooms https://prruk.org/ The Politics of Art and Vice Versa Sun, 07 Jan 2018 01:26:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 American Porn by Heathcote Williams https://prruk.org/american-porn-by-heathcote-williams/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:46:15 +0000 http://www.prruk.org/?p=2456 Heathcote Williams’ new book shows how a nation steeped in violence and greed reached its apotheosis in President Donald Trump.

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American Porn, published on Donald Trump’s inauguration day by Thin Man Press, is an inflammatory, chilling, and darkly hysterical book of poems in the tradition of 18th century political satire such as by Swift and Pope. Ignore at your peril.

American Porn Is a continuation of works addressing major global events by legendary poet and political commentator, Heathcote Williams.

The world was shocked by the election of President Trump but was it really that surprising?

In this timely collection of ‘investigative poems’ about American history, culture and politics, Heathcote Williams suggests — with characteristic wit and literary invention — that a nation which owes its very name to an early Italian pornographer, and which has been steeped for centuries in violence, artifice and greed, has reached its apotheosis in selecting such a leader.

Contents include: The United States of Porn; President Donald J.Trump, World Emperor; Snuff Films at The White House; The White House Fly and Hollywoodland

Fact File: Heathcote Williams’s greatest fans include Jeremy Hardy and Al Pacino; he was a celebrity guest in the last episode of Friends; he writes songs with Marianne Faithful; Bob Hoskins taught him fire-eating and he is a fully paid up member of the Magic Circle.

Biographical details: Eton and Oxford educated, few would have anticipated his life-long devotion to anti-establishment causes, including running the infamous Rough Tough Cream Puff squatting ‘estate agency’ in the 1970s.

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author Williams hit the headlines again in 2016 with Brexit Boris – From Mayor to Nightmare published by Public reading Rooms:

‘Scourge of the establishment for 50 years, Heathcote Williams is back with a vengeance…’
The Independent 2016

‘Williams is a gadfly, wit, dazzler, libertine, an erudite, mellifluous polemicist, anarchist, republican, anti-war, vegetarian Puck with a reverence for nature, an empathy for the marginal and a remarkable capacity for the imaginative verbal lash.’ Timothy O’Grady, Irish Times, 2016

American Porn is available from Thin Man Press. ORDER NOW…

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