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'One spring morning my dad vanished': the son of poet Heathcote Williams looks back by Charlie Gilmour

Just after becoming a new father, the author and dramatist abandoned his family. Charlie Gilmour, his son, tries to solve the riddle of the man he never really knew Within minutes of my arrival at my biological father's hospital bed, he exploded. He just went off, like a paint grenade. Blood everywhere. It had been pooling inside him for a while, then something gave way, and out it all came. Part of me suspected I ha…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM on August 24, 2020

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