Will Vigar

poet. writer. imposter.

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GLITCH: SUPERHEROES AND THE UNDEAD LIFE OF MYTH

In GLITCH: Superheroes and the Undead Life of Myth, Will Vigar offers a bracing, original rethinking of superhero culture as a hauntological system: stories that keep doing mythic work long after faith in gods, grand narratives, and clean endings has thinned out.

This is not a celebration of superheroes, nor a denunciation of them. Instead, it asks a colder, stranger question: what do these stories do in a culture that no longer believes in transcendence but still depends on its effects?

Drawing on cultural theory, philosophy, media studies, and close structural reading, GLITCH traces how superheroes organise time, manage trauma, and process catastrophe through repetition, reboot, resurrection, and maintenance. From Batman’s endlessly repeated origin to multiversal collapse without consequence, from franchise pantheons to glitching identities, the book argues that superheroes function as late myths: haunted, recursive, structurally incapable of finality.

Written in a bold, essayistic voice and deliberately “academic‑adjacent,” GLITCH is for readers interested in comics, film, media theory, cultural criticism, and the uneasy feeling that nothing is allowed to end anymore.

 

HAUNTED WHEN THE MINUTES DRAG: HAUNTOLOGY, AGORAPHOBIA AND ARRESTED TIME

Haunted When the Minutes Drag is a work of creative nonfiction that blends memoir, theory, cultural criticism, and prose poetry to explore what happens when time stops behaving itself.

Living with agoraphobia, Will Vigar writes from inside a world where the future loses traction, the past presses in with unexpected force, and the present stretches, collapses, and repeats. Drawing on hauntology, psychogeography, folklore, music, television, and personal memory, the book examines arrested time and stalled futures not as abstractions, but as lived experience.

Structured around a series of Fits and Spectres, the work moves between conceptual ground—time, memory, nostalgia, archive—and narrative encounters in which those ideas are embodied, resisted, and misremembered. Ghosts linger in beaches, cities, ruins, cafés, and half‑remembered childhoods; theory appears not as explanation, but as residue.

In the tradition of Mark Fisher, W. G. Sebald, Olivia Laing, Maggie Nelson, and Iain Sinclair, Haunted When the Minutes Drag is an oblique, recursive meditation on melancholy, fear, and survival in a culture haunted by failed futures—about living out of sequence, and finding meaning when forward motion falters.”

 

LOVE, DEATH, AND THE CRUCIAL THREE

Love, Death and the Crucial Three is a poignant LGBTQ tale of redemption that spans almost four decades. Centred on Jake and Wez, their story begins in the 1980s music of the ‘Second Liverpool Explosion’ where a shared passion for The Crucial Three defines their youth and unconventional friendship.

Trauma and circumstance drive them apart, forcing Jake into years of isolation, grief, loss and healing. When they reunite decades later, their slow-burn romance rekindles, providing a foundation to confront long-held secrets—including Jake’s long-lost child.

The book explores the search for closure, the pain of post-partum psychosis, and the power of forging a found family. It is a deeply emotional drama about survival, second chances, and building a life worth living.

 

 

 

FUTHARK: AND OTHER NORTHERN TALES

This book contains 24 poems inspired by the Elder Futhark; the Scandinavian rune set. These poems are not, and were never intended to be translations of the skaldic rune poems; nor are they intended to be ‘updates’ for the modern era. Rather, they are based on meditations using the runes as a focus and thus will deviate – often wildly and obliquely – from the original meanings of each individual rune. Playful, portentious, pithy, bucolic and sometimes a bit out there…

The ‘Other Northern Tales’ includes poems based on the additional Anglo-Saxon runes set and poems inspired by a visit to Norway.

 

 

 

 

TWELVE SHORT POEMS

The titles says it all. Previously a hand produced and bound pamphlet, given to friends for christmas – now a small book of small poems, some silly, some serious.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tales From the Urban Prairie: Stories, Histories, Recollections, and Urban Legends from Kelvin Flats 
This book is a response to seeing so much Brutalist architecture being demolished. Brutalism has a raw, savage beauty and seeing it’s influence dwindling and its reputation fall from ‘The Future of Housing’ to nothing more than an embarrassment is, for a lover of brutalist architecture desperately sad.
I lived on Kelvin estate from 1984 to 1991 and felt a sense of community that has been sadly lacking in every estate, block of flats, or private road I have lived in since, a fact commonly overlooked by its detractors.In ‘Tales from the Urban Prairie’ I have employed various methods of storytelling and building atmosphere
from poetry, prose, prose poetry, dérive, found poetry, reportage, visual and concrete poetry. I’m hoping it gives a better description of the flats and its denizens than mere cold truth.This book is no less than a love song to the ‘Streets in the Sky.’

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