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John Henley Heathcote-Williams (15 November 1941 – 1 July 2017), known as Heathcote Williams, was an English poet, actor, political activist and dramatist.
Jul 15, 2017 · The poet of the counter-culture was 75. Jul 15th 2017. NO ONE knew quite how the accident happened: how at some point in the 1970s Heathcote Williams set himself alight on the doorstep of his...
Jul 5, 2017 · Heathcote Williams, a poet, playwright, actor, lyricist, painter, sculptor, magician and relentless scourge of the British establishment for half a century, died on Saturday in...
Jul 7, 2017 · I first met Heathcote Williams in the early 1960s, just as his brilliant book The Speakers was published. I had sent a piece of writing to the Transatlantic Review, where he was an editor,...
Heathcote Williams: A Tribute - The London Magazine. Along with Tom Stoppard, Heathcote Williams is for me the great English writer of my generation. He is first and last a poet. His first book, The Speakers, about the soapbox orators in Hyde Park, was indeed in prose.
Jul 2, 2017 · Radical poet, esteemed playwright, actor, and political activist Heathcote Williams has died at the age of 75. Williams had been ill for some time and died in Oxford on Saturday, according to...
Jun 1, 2018 · H eathcote Williams was a tour de force: prolific poet, playwright, polemicist, humorist, actor, ecologist, environmental, animal rights and human rights activist, courageous contrarian, and above all, a utopian – who wanted to see the world become a kinder, fairer, better place, for all beings.
