Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on the
London Magazine from 1961 to 1970, since when he has earned his living as a journalist and travel writer.
Billy's Rain won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1999. His
Collected Poems was published by Faber in 2002 and his last collection,
I Knew the Bride, was published in 2014 and shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. In 2004 he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
'He's a poet of such intimate charm, such grace and cunning, and such ordinary comic sadness, that he wins your affection and admiration.' Hermione Lee, GuardianFast Music refers as much to the fast dance music that caused Williams to run round the room on the furniture aged three...
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