Beat Scene Magazine Eyeballs ‘American Porn’

My staff of thousands tells me that “American Porn” was reviewed in Beat Scene, a British magazine edited by Kevin Ring. That was news to me. Here’s the review:

The staff wanted to know what I thought of the review. I said I liked what the reviewer said about the poet: “Heathcote Williams is a troublemaker and has been for a very long time.” It also pleased me that the reviewer took this quote from the liner notes: “His poetry is as radical in its polemics as Shelley’s, whose visionary anarchism he considers indispensible.” And of course there’s no beating what Harold Pinter said, also from the liner notes: “All his work is deeply political. I think it’s informed not only by violent contempt for the way people are manipulated, for the status quo, but also — certainly more and more evident in his later work — by compassion for the weak.”*
*Quoted from a documentary.

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