Hes a poet of such intimate charm such grace and cunning and such ordinary comic sadness that he wins your affection and admiration. Hermione Lee GuardianFast 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 the many and various extraordinary subjects which rise out of the sea of his daily life to be caught between the rollers of his beloved Adler GabrieleWords returning with a bang and a bellto the lefthand marginpausing for a moment to reflect on the scene.Fast Music ranges from wideeyed school days to a fullblown sequence of love sonnets to an ode to Brightons West Pier and the inevitable helterskelter of fate.