Books by C. K. Williams

'Well this book blew my mind! What a delicious plot twist. One of the best psychological thrillers I have read in a very long time' Michelle, reader review

I am the reason girls are told not to trust strangers. I am their cautionary tale.

Winner of the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, C K Williams is one of the most distinguished poets of his generation. This book collects his prose along with a series of interview excerpts in which he discusses a wide range of subjects, from his own work as a poet and translator to the state of American poetry as a whole.

Second new book by the Pulitzer prizewinning American poet since his Collected Poems (2006). Poems on the looming spectre of death, sexual desire and hubris of youth. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

C.K. Williams (1936-2015) was the most challenging American poet of his generation, a poet of intense and searching originality who made lyric sense out of the often brutal realities of everyday life. His new collection, Wait, finds Williams by turns ruminative, stalked by 'the conscience-beast, who harries me'. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

C.K. Williams (1936-2015) was the most challenging American poet of his generation, a poet of intense and searching originality who made lyric sense out of the often brutal realities of everyday life. His poems are startlingly intense anecdotes on love, death, secrets and wayward thought, examining the inner life in precise, daring language.