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16%OFFHugo Williams - West End Final - 9780571245932 - V9780571245932
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West End Final

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Description for West End Final Paperback. Summons the poet's past selves in order of appearance, as in an autobiography. This title includes childhood and school time that offer up the amateur theatricals of themselves, in poems of vertiginous retrospect; and other poems itemize the professional selves of the poet's actor-father Hugh Williams. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 92.

Hugo Williams's new collection summons the poet's past selves in order of appearance, as in an autobiography, showing in poems as clear as rock pools that the plain truth is only as plain as the props and make-up needed to stage it.

Childhood and school time offer up the amateur theatricals of themselves, in poems of vertiginous retrospect; other poems itemize the professional selves of the poet's actor-father Hugh Williams (by now as familiar and frequently depicted as Cezanne's mountain), while the narrator - 'waiting to step into my father's shoes as myself' - teases out the ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571245932
SKU
V9780571245932
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-33

About Hugo Williams
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 ... Read more

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