Dock Leaves

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Hugo Williams, Hugo (poetry ed Spectator) Williams
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.1994
• EAN: 9780571171750
• ISBN: 978-0-571-17175-0
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 200 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 100 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets