Fast Music by Hugo Williams Penguin Simultaneously close to home and

Simultaneously close to home and looking outward beyond these shores

“Among the poets of Atlantis – those who belong to both the Old World and the New

Kurdish-led region of Syria known as Rojava

" says the translator

Fast Music by Hugo Williams Penguin Simultaneously close to home and'He's a poet of such intimate charm, such grace and cunning, and such ordinary comic sadness, that he wins your affection and admiration.' Hermione Lee, Guardian Fast Music refers as much to the fast dance music that caused Williams to run round the room on the furniture aged three as to the speed of life, thought and to poetry itself, which works harder and faster than ordinary speech. In a poem about his typewriter, the 'undiscovered islands' are