No Particular Place to Go

''A hilarious book of bad times, bedtimes and benders. It is a kind of cool parody of On the Road.'' New Statesman

No Particular Place to Go (first published in 1981) relates Hugo Williams''s journey across the USA on a three-month poetry-reading tour wherein he also hoped to discover some of the America he had imagined for so long on the strength of its all-consuming popular culture.

''No Particular Place to Go isn''t a book that you''d take on a visitor''s itinerary of the States . . . But the journey it describes is a potent one . . . It offered a poet''s eye on modern culture, a cool, sideways perspective on its consumers and an enviable traveller''s voice – not just unafraid of meeting the locals but positively keen to jump in and grab whatever was on offer.'' John Walsh, Independent