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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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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 12d

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

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 12d

'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 · 15d

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 · 18d

Ind Coope's Story of Testicles

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

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 26d

The ruthless economic muscle of Big Short

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 29d

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.

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Aug 23

Cherry plums

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Aug 23

People need to complain about this crap if we want it to stop www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Make A Complaint | Contact the BBC

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Aug 13

I keep expecting Bruno Cremer to walk into shot

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Aug 13

I call it an OranGINa

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Aug 11

That's like a cross between turning in his grave and rolling in the aisles - he's fuming, but he's also amused, because he knows how inflation works.

Newspaper headline: Freddo bar creator would be 'rolling in his grave' at its price today, daughter says

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Aug 7

A classic of the genre*

*the genre = M John Harrison novels

m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · Aug 7

Begun 1983. Published 1992. Out again today.

Cover of a book. Background: a strange, rather menacing blue background, like the product of an abandoned printing process. Against that a self-reflexive pattern of trees and ruins and water makes the shape of a skull. It's looking at you. It's looking at me. It's looking at everyone.

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Aug 7

Lecturer in Creative Writing (poetry) at Bath Spa, 0.6 FTE
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Lecturer - Creative Writing - Poetry (Part-time) at Bath Spa University

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Aug 7

Lecturer in Creative Writing (fiction) at Bristol, 0.5 FTE
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Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Bristol

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Aug 4

Yes, and I imagine it's also why they say I am silent but deadly

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Aug 4

The correct spelling of my name is actually Tawny Owliams

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Jul 30

Don't you find though that the shape of the coat-hanger really affects how the garment hangs?

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Jul 27

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Jul 22

You seem to have mistyped 'Life: A User's Manual, by Georges Perec'

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · Jul 22

Yes Moby-Dick is the best book I have ever read. You do not have to agree. In fact, I don't want you to! Tell me your one, and I will eventually get round ot it. Don't be shy. We're all here to celebrate whatever this is. Just name it.

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is a bit of the very, very best book I have ever read. You should try it too. There is NOTHING like it. OILY VINTAGES #QueuingForCrumble

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