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Tony Williams
@tonywilliams.bsky.social
Novelist & poet. Latest novel COLE THE MAGNIFICENT

https://linktr.ee/tonywilliamswriter
New word just dropped. I do feel affectional about the Grauniad's legendary proofreading.
October 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
She's found something she loves more than her ball
October 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lydia Davis, from the Collected Stories
September 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I'm very much enjoying Andrew Neilson's pamphlet Summers Are Other from Rack Press, particularly the lovely lyric 'The Viaduct'
@badlilies.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Ind Coope's Story of Testicles
September 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The irony is lost on this anonymous bluesky user
September 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Cherry plums
August 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I call it an OranGINa
August 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
That's like a cross between turning in his grave and rolling in the aisles - he's fuming, but he's also amused, because he knows how inflation works.
August 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Can't quite express how grateful I am to have a poem included in 'Ten Poems from the Peak District' from @candlestickpress.bsky.social - not only because it's a beautiful object, nor that I find myself among poets I deeply admire, but also because... 1/3
July 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
RIP Phil Lynott
July 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Maigret's subordinates are so endearing
July 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I know it's, in one sense, not a laughing matter, but, on the other hand, this paragraph 🤩🤩
July 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The footage from the Sycamore Gap case looks like it was taken by Nicéphore Niépce
May 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Here's a salt cod croquette
April 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Eventually I reached my hotel and dumped my bags, before heading out for a beer and kebab by candlelight
April 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
You might have thought it was indeed '100 STRESS', but actually there was a really jolly vibe, a bit like early lockdown. Everyone was in it together. The traffic lights were off so everyone just took turns
April 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It was a long, hot walk
April 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Also I was dragging a suitcase because the left luggage machines, like everything else, were out of order
April 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I'm shit at social media so I didn't document the walk very well, but here's a railway line and a medieval bridge
April 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I'm going in. I may be some time.
March 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Recycling at its best
March 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Lovely recent review of Nutcase, which you can obtain from any good bookshop or indeed from LibGen if you're a techbro crook
March 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A poem about cows for #worldpoetryday from my @ninearchespress collection The Midlands. MOOOOO!
March 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hoist by their own petard
January 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM