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Tony Williams

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Novelist & poet. Latest novel COLE THE MAGNIFICENT https://linktr.ee/tonywilliamswriter

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hi new followers 👋 I write poetry and fiction, most recently Cole the Magnificent, which is a novel with bits of verse tucked in here and there, such as this song about a dismembered housecarl
#books #writing #poetry

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Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social · 2d

The future of UK Independent presses hang by a thread. Supporting the sector is vital: this is where ALL the bravery lies. The big houses are risk averse, but copycat small press successes to revitalise their lists. Small presses are the motor!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 1d

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Please consider supporting indie publishing by contributing to this fundraiser for @saltpublishing.com You can of course also support Salt by buying a book or two - I particularly recommend Cole the Magnificent, Hawthorn City, Nutcase, etc...
gofund.me/0fe44ad35

Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery

New books and reprints arrive daily at Salty Towers – and we'… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026

gofund.me

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 1d

It's the details that really make it - packed like a sandbag; a carvery on the Sunday...

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 12d

Lydia Davis, from the Collected Stories

Getting to Know Your Body

If your eyeballs move, this means that you're thinking, or about to start thinking.

If you don't want to be thinking at this particular moment, try to keep your eyeballs still.

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 15d

(I nearly elided the middle bit but then clocked the irony 🤦‍♂️)

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 15d

'this unpopular art which cannot be turned into
background noise for study
or hung as a status trophy by rising executives,
cannot be "done" like Venice
or abridged like Tolstoy, but stubbornly still insists upon
being read or ignored'

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 18d

I'm very much enjoying Andrew Neilson's pamphlet Summers Are Other from Rack Press, particularly the lovely lyric 'The Viaduct'
@badlilies.bsky.social

First stanza of The Viaduct:
As a child I would cross
with my father's brother,
and in summer weather
we would walk into loss.

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 22d

Ind Coope's Story of Testicles

Beer mat saying, Ind Coope's Story of Beer: Tegestology

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 29d

The ruthless economic muscle of Big Short

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Sep 10

The irony is lost on this anonymous bluesky user

Anonymous bluesky post criticising someone for masking up

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Sep 3

I carried the Watergate

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Sep 1

I mean, Lukacs would say that the realistic novel is about economic conditions by definition

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Sep 1

Bilbo's offered a wage to go with the dwarves, but the reason he goes is that he quite fancies being a gentleman adventurer

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Sep 1

Characters having to worry about money (or not) would be one way of differentiating between realism and fantasy. E.g. Frodo is Mr Frodo and can swan off to Mordor without giving notice

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Aug 24

No wonder the political class despise and undervalue teachers, if this is what they think teaching is. No wonder their view of education is so reductive and instrumental.