Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on the London Magazine from 1961 to 1970, and has since earned his living as a journalist and travel writer. His Collected Poems, which brings together work from eight books, including the 1999 T. S. Eliot Prize-winning Billy’s Rain, was published in 2002. His poetry collection Dear Room (2006) was shortlisted for...
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