Going For The Throat

More poetry of light rising from the abyss. 'Going For The Throat' is a collection of contemporary poetry by Welsh author and poet, Stephen Williams. The subject matter of these poems is diverse, thought-provoking and frequently controversial. The collection includes poetry of place, hope and death, gay love and sex, age and illness, politics, poverty and homelessness. Sometimes satiric, often gritty and biting, the work is never gratuitous. Writing in a contemporary form, this collection also contains interpretations of the traditional poetic forms of the Villanelle and Sonnet. Williams's voice is rarely integrated, always standing outside of a social group or society itself, watching and remembering but never becoming a part of it, remembering only what might have been as he sees 'the truth told and the cold coffee going stale on the counter'. This is again a provocative and varied single-author collection of poetry.