“…In Shelley, Williams has found his ideal subject. The rogue aristocrat who became an outcast from English society because of his wild ideas about political and spiritual freedom; the teenager expelled from Oxford after just six months’ residence, who, by a cynical sleight of hand, has been rehabilitated as part of the ‘cultural legacy’ of the university; the opponent of church, state, and monarchy, the advocate of vegetarianism, free love, and political revolution; the poet who was presented to the Victorian age…
In 1973 Beat Generation spearhead Allen Ginsberg was a guest of the annual Poetry International Festival Rotterdam. That same year local artist Gerard Bellaart translated three poems by Ginsberg into Dutch and published them as De Verandering through his own Cold Turkey Press. At the time Cold Turkey Press had already made its mark with publications of works by Charles Bukowski, Ezra Pound, William Burroughs, Sinclair Beiles a.o…
