In gathering four decades of work, Hugo Williams's Collected Poems
brings back into print a vast body of material long since
unavailable - from his 1965 debut Symptoms of Loss to Self-Portrait
with a Slide (1990) and including Writing Home (1985), described by
Mick Imlah in the Independent on Sunday as 'a classic of creative
autobiography'. The edition is brought up to date with his most
recent work: Dock Leaves, a PBS Choice of 1994, and Billy's Rain,
winner of the 1999 T. S. Eliot Award. 'This year's best collection
of works by a single poet. Intimate, charming and often funny,
sometimes wistful, slightly sceptical, full of insight, the poems
are a monument to 40 years of talent.' Times 'In their seemingly
artless way, these poems look with candour at feebleness, messy
love affairs, squirming memories, and emerge triumphantly, often
with a rueful grin.' Anthony Thwaite, Sunday Telegraph 'Not since
Thom Gunn's Collected Poems has there been a Collected as startling
and poignant as Hugo Williams's Collected Poems. Williams shows us,
like no other contemporary poet, what is so strangely undramatic
about our personal dramas.' Adam Phillips, Observer Books of the
Year 'William's is a poet of such intimate charm, such grace and
cunning, and such ordinary comical sadness, that he wins your
affection and admiration.' Hermoine Lee, Guardian
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