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John Henley Heathcote-Williams (15 November 1941 – 1 July 2017), known as Heathcote Williams, was an English poet, actor, political activist and dramatist.
The Independent reports the death of Heathcote Williams, a radical poet, playwright, actor and activist. He was known for his polemic poems, such as Autogeddon and American Porn, and his stage plays, such as AC/DC.
Along with Tom Stoppard, Heathcote Williams is for me the great English writer of my generation. He is first and last a poet. His first book, The Speakers, about the soapbox orators in Hyde Park, was indeed in prose. But prose so musical, so cadence-aware that there had been nothing like it since Murphy or Malone Dies.
Jul 5, 2017 · Heathcote Williams, a poet, playwright, actor, lyricist, painter, sculptor, magician and relentless scourge of the British establishment for half a century, died on Saturday in...
Jul 15, 2017 · The poet of the counter-culture was 75. Jul 15th 2017. NO ONE knew quite how the accident happened: how at some point in the 1970s Heathcote Williams set himself alight on the doorstep of his...
Jun 1, 2018 · H eathcote Williams was a tour de force: prolific poet, playwright, polemicist, humorist, actor, ecologist, environmental, animal rights and human rights activist, courageous contrarian, and above all, a utopian – who wanted to see the world become a kinder, fairer, better place, for all beings.
Jul 6, 2017 · Heathcote Williams, who has died of emphysema aged 75, was a playwright, poet, anarchist and magician who – in addition to founding a secessionist state with a group of London squatters –...
