Books by William Wantling:
7 on Style. Second Coming Press, USA. 1975. Contains Wantling's last poems.
San Quentin's Stranger. Caveman Press, New Zealand. 1973. In effect, a selected poems.
10,000 r.p.m. & digging it, yeah. Second Aeon, South Wales. 1973. Open, 'Beat style', the poems
more loosely structured.
Obscene & Other Poems. Caveman Press, New Zealand. 1972.
Sick Fly. Second Aeon, South Wales, 1970. Shows Wantling at his peak, experimenting with different styles.
The Awakening. Rapp & Whiting, UK.1968. Contains the very best of Wantling's work from the 1960's,
Penguin Modern Poets 12, with Alan Jackson and Jeff Nuttall. Penguin Books, UK. 1969. Contains a good
selection of poems taken from The Awakening.
The Source. Dust Books, USA. 1966. Work from the 1960's. Contains an execellent introduction to Wantling's
work by Len Fulton.
Anthologies cointaining poems by William Wantling:
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Edited by Alan Kaufman. Thunder's Mouth Press, USA. 1999.
Prison Writings in 20th-Century America. Edited by Tom Wicker and H. Bruce Franklin, Penguin Books,
USA. 1998.
Retrieving Bones: Stories and Poems of the Korean War. Edited by W.D. Ehrhart and Philip K. Jason,
Rutgers University Press, USA. 1999.
Critical and biographical writing on William Wantling:
William Wantling: A Biography and Selected Works. John Pyros, Spoon River Press, USA.1981. Insightful
and fascinating.
The Beats by John Osbourne. In A Companion to 20th-Century Poetry, edited by Neil
Roberts, Blackwell, UK. 2001. Places William Wantling in the context of the Beats, and explains some of the reasons
his work has been neglected.
Setting the Record Straight on William Wantling. W.D. Ehrhart,
www.wla.journal.com. Fall-Winter 2000. A close look at the man behind the myth-maker.
