Heathcote Williams has recorded his poems “Mr. President,” “The United States of Porn,” “Forbidden Fruit, or The Cybernetic Apple Core,” and “Snuff Films at the White House.” In their uncompromising nakedness they are CT scans of history.
“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, the complacency of the status quo, but also — certainly more and more evident in his later work — by compassion for the weak.”
– Harold Pinter, on Heathcote Williams
Postscript: May 24 — Here’s a look at the full set: vinyl LP, LP sleeve, CD, and CD wrapper:
PPS: July 31 — And now for the flyer just posted at International Times:
