“He is a poet with such intimate charm, such grace and demonism, and such commonplace comic sadness, that he wins your love and admiration.” - Hermione Lee, Guardian

Fast Music refers both to the fast dance music that made Williams run around the room on the furniture from the age of three, and to the speed of life, thought, and poetry itself, which works harder and faster than normal speech. In a poem about his typewriter, the "undiscovered islands" are the many and various excellent topics that emerge from the sea of his daily life, to be caught between the rollers of his beloved Adler Gabriele:

“The words return with a blast and a ring
to the left margin,
pausing for a moment to contemplate the scene.”

Fast Music stretches from awe-filled school years to a full sequence of love sonnets, to an ode to Brighton's West Pier and the inevitable whirlpool of fate.

Pages: 80, Dimensions: 13x13cm