Penguin Modern Poets: Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion, Hugo Williams Bk. 11 (Penguin Modern Poets)

Literature & Fiction

MOTION, Andrew

DONAGHY, Michael

Williams, Hugo

Poetry

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Writing Home is Williams's first full-length collection for ten years. It traces an itinerant childhood and his changing relationship with his actor father. As well as writing home to his father, he writes home from his past--from boarding school, from adolescence, and from the last war, using material from his father's letters to his mother from North Africa. "Possibly the most original poet of his generation in England."--Edna Longley, Irish Times

Writing Home (Oxford Paperbacks)

Oxford University Press

This selection, made by Williams himself, includes work from his five individual volumes published at intervals over the past twenty years. His first volume, Symptoms of Loss, which he published at age twenty three, immediately attracted attention, and his subsequent volumes have all justified the early acclaim and have established and extended his reputation. Selected Poems reveals how completely Williams has developed his own personal style, writing with lyricism, humor, and sensitivity, about an ever-expanding range of experience and emotion. He has the rare ability to render the details of his subject--often painful or problematic subjects--with both candor and delicacy.

Selected Poems (Oxford Paperbacks)

Hugo Williams's new collection characteristically blends humour and pathos to examine the far from ordinary occurrences of our so-called ordinary lives. This book is intended for poetry.

Self Portrait with a Slide

No particular place to go

History

Americas

JONATHAN CAPE.

The hilariously wicked journey through the sexual trading places of the US by the TS Eliot Prize winning Hugo Williams. A sexual Odyssey of hilarious frankness by one who valiantly never tries to miss an opportunity. This is not just the baffling America of trailer parks, image therapists and sauna complexes with yodelling and kebabs. It is also the America in which men throw themselves at his feet while women flee in the face of his entreaties as he tries to consummate his love affair with the US

No Particular Place to Go

Pan/Macmillan

In these poems, deadpan comedy and a relish for the outrageous and the bizarre often carry an emotional charge. Subjects include the stings inflicted by school, family and love-life.

Dock Leaves

Faber&Faber

"Since beginning his 'Freelance' column in the Times Literary Supplement in 1988, poet and travel-writer Hugo Williams has visited Sarajevo, Central America, Jerusalem, Skyros, Portugal and Norwich. Part-time teaching jobs, literary festivals and writing courses have kept him both busy and bemused, but he has also found time to get a taste of roistering, cross-dressing, tight-rope walking, drug-scoring, fashion modelling and archaeology. Memories of his apprenticeship at the London Magazine and of Soho in the '70s, encounters with the likes of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Gioconda Belli and the station master at Gospel Oak, news of a bogus 'Ted Hughes', evocations of the theatrical world of his parents and of his wife's French childhood - these are among the things that have occupied his constantly questing mind." "The despatches collected in Freelancing amount to a piecemeal autobiography, in the course of which the author's Selected Poems are published, his mother dies, his wife inherits a chateau and he crashes his motorbike. Always elegantly turned, frequently hilarious, at times surprisingly poignant, Hugo Williams's column has earned him a devoted following among readers of the TLS - one due to be enlarged by the publication of this book."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Freelancing: Adventures of a Poet

Biographies & Memoirs

From his Freelance column in the Times Literary Supplement, the despatches collected here amount to a piecemeal autobiography of the poet and travel writer Hugo Williams.

A collection of poems devoted to the vicissitudes of a finished love affair-its ambivalences and duplicities, hidden depths and emotional pitfalls. 
I narrowed it down to this- her voice on the phone, its cheerful 'Hello, how are you? Can you come out to play?' I wrapped her choking laugh in layers of indifference. I couldn't get rid of her mouth. 
I narrowed it down once more- a look on her face, one arm across my neck. As a final test I allowed her to speak my name. That was no good at all. That was worse than useless. -"Useless" 
The poems in Billy's Rain chart the course of a love affair that has ended. Its complications, evasions, secret joys, and emotional pitfalls are explored with the subtlety and irony that have long been distinguishing characteristics of Hugo Williams's powerful work. 
Hugo Williams lives in London, England.

Billy's Rain

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Penguin Modern Poets: Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion, Hugo Williams Bk. 11 (Penguin Modern Poets)

Writing Home (Oxford Paperbacks)

Selected Poems (Oxford Paperbacks)

Self Portrait with a Slide

No particular place to go

No Particular Place to Go

Dock Leaves

Freelancing: Adventures of a Poet

Freelancing: Adventures of a Poet

Billy's Rain