{"product_id":"collected-poems-7","title":"Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn gathering four decades of work, Hugo Williams''s \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems \u003c\/i\u003ebrings back into print a vast body of material long since unavailable - from his 1965 debut \u003ci\u003eSymptoms of Loss \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait with a Slide \u003c\/i\u003e(1990) and including \u003ci\u003eWriting Home \u003c\/i\u003e(1985), described by Mick Imlah in the\u003ci\u003e Independent on Sunday \u003c\/i\u003eas ''a classic of creative autobiography''. The edition is brought up to date with his most recent work: \u003ci\u003eDock Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e, a PBS Choice of 1994, and \u003ci\u003eBilly''s Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 1999 T. S. Eliot Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''This year''s best collection of works by a single poet. Intimate, charming and often funny, sometimes wistful, slightly sceptical, full of insight, the poems are a monument to 40 years of talent.'' \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''In their seemingly artless way, these poems look with candour at feebleness, messy love affairs, squirming memories, and emerge triumphantly, often with a rueful grin.'' Anthony Thwaite, \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Not since Thom Gunn''s \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e has there been a Collected as startling and poignant as Hugo Williams''s \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. Williams shows us, like no other contemporary poet, what is so strangely undramatic about our personal dramas.'' Adam Phillips, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Year \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''William''s is a poet of such intimate charm, such grace and cunning, and such ordinary comical sadness, that he wins your affection and admiration.'' Hermoine Lee, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57311720178046,"sku":"NW9780571216918","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571216918.jpg?v=1778584324","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/collected-poems-7","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}