Hugo Williams: 11 books

Book cover of Dear Room
by Hugo Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010

Dear Room is a worthy successor to Billy's Rain (1999), whose preoccupations and occasions it continues and ramifies, charting the 'angles, signals, orders, murmurs, sighs' of love, separation and loss. With grave good humour, ruefully exact timing and a scruple reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, these...
Book cover of West End Final
by Hugo Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010

Hugo Williams's new collection summons the poet's past selves in order of appearance, as in an autobiography, showing in poems as clear as rock pools that the plain truth is only as plain as the props and make-up needed to stage it. Childhood and school time offer up the amateur theatricals...
Book cover of All the Time in the World
by Hugo Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012

'I believe I shall be writing home about this trip for the rest of my life... years from now, still recollecting, like an old white hunter, shadowy images to an empty fireplace, far into the night...' All the Time in the World, a first work of prose by the poet Hugo Williams, was originally...
Book cover of I Knew the Bride
by Hugo Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

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...
Book cover of Freelancing

Freelancing

Adventures of a Poet

by Hugo Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012

In 1988 Hugo Williams began to pen his 'Freelance' column for the Times Literary Supplement: a window that allowed him to exhibit the full panoply of his gifts as travel writer, literary portraitist, working poet, and all-round chronicler of the curious existence of the contemporary writer. Freelancing...
Book cover of Lines Off
by Hugo Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019

Catching a sudden look of defiance from his granddaughter inspires Hugo Williams to take up his pen and write this deeply moving new collection of poetry - the first since I Knew the Bride (2014), shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. He navigates assuredly from thoughtful reminiscences...
Book cover of Billy's Rain
by Hugo Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010

The fifty poems in Billy's Rain chart the course of a love affair, now ended. Its complications, obsessions, evasions, secret joys and emotional pitfalls are explored with all the subtlety and irony of which Hugo Williams, among contemporary poets, is the acknowledged master. These are brilliant, wry and moving elegies for a love affair.
Book cover of Dock Leaves
by Hugo Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010

In these poems, Hugo Williams's subjects include the stings inflicted by school, family and love-life, and the exquisite (if qualified) solace afforded by their contemplation.
Book cover of No Particular Place to Go
by Hugo Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

'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...
Book cover of Curtain Call

Curtain Call

101 Portraits in Verse

by Hugo Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010

The art of portraiture in poetry is traceable from the Latin poets and Chaucer via Goldsmith, Wordsworth and Browning, to the modern era of Rimbaud, Cavafy, Auden, Lowell and Hofmann. Poetry is an art form which encourages introspection, so it is a welcome break to find these poets looking outward,...
Book cover of Technology in America

Technology in America

A History of Individuals and Ideas

by Merritt Roe Smith, Brooke Hindle, Hugo A. Meier
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018

The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...
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