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John Hartley Williams is an award-winning poet, novelist, essayist and critic. He has published nine collections of poetry, including Blues (2004), two of which have been shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize and he won the Arvon International Poetry Competition in 1983. He has also written a romance, Mystery in Spiderville (2002), and co-edited Teach Yourself Writing Poetry. He teaches English at the Free University of Berlin and has lived in Berlin since 1976.

Books by John Hartley Williams

Café des Artistes

John Hartely William's latest collection of poems is a glorious miscellany of bizarre stories, surreal images and Bacchic reveries from the prize-winning, absurdist arch-comedian of British poetry.

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Blues

A funny, insightful and disquieting collection of poems about Germany, Eastern Europe and Englishness, from an award-winning and consummately stylish poet.

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Mystery In Spiderville

'A fascinating debut which combines madcap surrealism, film-noir and eroticism' - Guardian

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