Tony Williams

Biography
Tony Williams is based in Sheffield, UK. His first full collection, The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street, was published by Salt in 2009 and shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Portico Prize for Literature. He teaches creative writing and literature for the Open University and Sheffield Hallam University.

THE CORNER OF ARUNDEL LANE AND CHARLES STREET (SALT, 2009)

 * Dr Fulminare's Queftionable Arts -- There's the strange tension between the diversions into violent or indulgent periods of history, as well as some of the coarser language, and the gentler, more pastoral turns. I still haven't got to the bottom of it all. I'm not sure I ever will.
 * Eyewear -- In poems such as ‘Sand’ and ‘Gravel’ he breaks the world of things as they are down into its component parts and zooms in close.
 * The Guardian -- Williams writes mostly free verse, but shaped with impressive formal dexterity, the kind that can turn bitchy Pope-ish couplets without sounding stiff, and a strong, studied feeling for the rhythmic integrity of the line.