Billy's Rain by Hugo Williams
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.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571200863 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571200869 |
| Title | Billy's Rain |
| Author | Hugo Williams |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 1999-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Prizes | Winner of T S Eliot Prize 1999 |
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