Heathcote Williams' "Juggling Ghosts" (2021)
London, England: Open Head Press (chapbooks, slipcase, stamped, numbered), 2017.
9" x 6.5" (each chapbook), 9.25" x 6" x 1.75" (slipcase), thirteen chapbooks in slipcase, numbered and stamped, ISBN 978-1-9989920-0-3.
Juggling Ghosts: Close Encounters with Twelve Luminaries and Some Tigers by Heathcote Williams, as published as a set of thirteen chapbooks in a slipcase by Open Head Press (London, England) in 2017. The first chapbook is an introduction, numbered and stamped with Heathcote William's signature at final page. 300 copies released.
Chapbook one of twelve (aside from the introductory chapbook) is "Burroughs in London", a seven-page memoir of visiting William S. Burroughs in 1963, along with an illustration of WSB by Andrzej Krauze.
This essay, "Burroughs in London", was previously published by Cold Turkey Press in 2007 in an edition of 36 copies.
This copy is #156 of 300 copies.
Contents:
- Prue Cooper: Introduction
- Chapbook One: "Burroughs in London" [on William S. Burroughs]
- Chapbook Two: "Harold Pinter: A Portrait"
- Chapbook Three: "Of Dylan and his Deaths" [on Dylan Thomas]
- Chapbook Four: "The first poet in space" [on Sinclair Beiles]
- Chapbook Five: "Christopher Marlowe"
- Chapbook Six: "The Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat and Hipster of the Heart" [on Lord Buckley]
- Chapbook Seven: "Unfinished manuscript, 1 July 2017" [on Christopher Smart]
- Chapbook Eight: "Shelley at Oxford" [on Percy Bysshe Shelley]
- Chapbook Nine: "Michael John Lesser"
- Chapbook Ten: "Forbidden Fruit or, The Cybernetic Apple Core" [on Alan Turing]
- Chapbook Eleven: "The Army Of The Dog: Proto-Anarchist, Proto-Punk and First Citizen of the World" [on Diogenes of Sinope]
- Chapbook Twelve: "The Tigers of Wrath" [on William Blake]
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