Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of
autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his
writing to 'slip back to the past as effortlessly as a dreamer'
(The Times). I Knew the Bride is Williams' eleventh collection of
poems, and his first since West End Final was shortlisted for both
the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes for poetry in 2009. This new
volume bears - and lays bare - those qualities that have become so
characteristic of his work: his unflinching survey of his childhood
and adult life alike, alighting on moments of vivacity from his
upbringing in a theatrical family in the 1940s and 50s (the title
poem a touching tribute to his late sister) through to the romantic
peaks and pains of his adult years. Straight-talking,
self-deprecating and funny, these recklessly accountable
inspections are set against a Williams-esk miscellany of day-to-day
backdrops that readers have come to treasure: of record
collections, kitchen sinks, shopping bicycles, hotels, bedrooms.
But I Knew the Bride is no mere rehearsal of old lives lived;
instead it takes the author and his readers into startling new
terrain in a series of brave, painful and profoundly moving poems
'From the Dialysis Ward', in which the author records his own
ongoing hospital treatment with a fearless vulnerability that makes
this collection of poems a courageous and inspiring read.
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