Lawrence Johns' Love And Hate is an epic poem on the rise and fall of Haight-Ashbury. Not since Whitman has an American poet so confidently reinvented poetry and country in a single stroke. Billy Collins: "Heads of acid roll again, this time in verse." Linda Hurst: "Lawrence Johns' Love And Hate is a masterpiece of political allegory based on the radiant and tragic story of the Diggers, a whirlwind of new poetics, ruling passions and ancient identities summoned in sharp defense of individual freedom." G.S.Rowe: "We haven't seen such a psychologically tuned cast of characters since Chaucer and...

Beyond Exile is the second part of Lawrence Johns' epic poem on the cultural roots of American consciousness. Pulitzer-nominated Love And Hate told the story of the rise and fall of Haight Ashbury in the Sixties through the eyes of the Diggers. Beyond Exile carries the narrative though the psychology, politics and dark magic of the Seventies as Frank Glendover meets up with Carlos the Jackal spinning strange dreams in Exile. If Love And Hate was Johns' Iliad, Beyond Exile is his Odyssey and Oedipus Rex. Lawrence Johns has been called the Poet Laureate of the Counterculture, and Beyond Exile,...

Lawrence Johns' polymath essay on golf in the New Medieval presents the first theoretical strategy for winning golf tournaments in the royal and ancient history of the game.With 85 Old Medieval illustrations.