The Midlands - Tony Williams

A Poetry collection from Nine Arches Press:

The Midlands is the second collection of poems by Tony Williams, following his acclaimed debut The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street. Beginning in the Midlands themselves, where Mercian kings sleep under wurzels near the local Asda, his poems open out into tragi-comic paeans on dog walks, photocopiers, shut shops and lunchtimes, and meditations on what it means to be a person living, wonkily, anywhere. But beneath the word-play and tomfoolery, something strange is brooding in the caverns underneath the hill. History is coming for you, and if you set out to meet it, you’ll never find your way home…

Praise for The Midlands by Tony Williams:

“Great feeling, vital ways of seeing and startling music run like veins of silver through this brilliant book.” – Jacob Polley

"The Midlands is a fine collection of poems, playing the conversational music of contemporary poetry at its best.” – Jo Bell