I Knew the Bride, by Hugo Williams
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Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to 'slip back to the past as effortlessly as a dreamer' (The Times).
I Knew the Bride is Williams' eleventh collection of poems, and his first since West End Final was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes for poetry in 2009. This new volume bears - and lays bare - those qualities that have become so characteristic of his work: his unflinching survey of his childhood and adult life alike, alighting on moments of vivacity from his upbringing in a theatrical family in the 1940s and 50s (the title poem a touching tribute to his late sister) through to the romantic peaks and pains of his adult years. Straight-talking, self-deprecating and funny, these recklessly accountable inspections are set against a Williams-esk miscellany of day-to-day backdrops that readers have come to treasure: of record collections, kitchen sinks, shopping bicycles, hotels, bedrooms. But I Knew the Bride is no mere rehearsal of old lives lived; instead it takes the author and his readers into startling new terrain in a series of brave, painful and profoundly moving poems 'From the Dialysis Ward', in which the author records his own ongoing hospital treatment with a fearless vulnerability that makes this collection of poems a courageous and inspiring read.
I Knew the Bride, by Hugo Williams- Amazon Sales Rank: #901581 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-03-18
- Released on: 2014-03-18
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Review • "Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to slip back to the past as effortlessly as a dreamer." --The Times
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, Dear Room, was published in 2006. He writes a freelance column for the TLS and lives in London.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Poems from the Deep By MedievalMom Hugo Williams, one of the best chroniclers of human emotional spectrum, is suffering from failing kidneys and is on dialysis. These poems are written while he is struggling with the business of staying alive, and awaiting --as all his fans hope he will get one-- a kidney transplant. It is impossible not to admire deeply this man, who can lay bare so much of himself in such a few lines, be alert to his surroundings even when he suffers, and feels so deeply and let his readers feel deeply too. He does not have inhibitions, at least not when he writes, and this, in a world of political correctness and extreme self-control is just so rare and refreshing. But there is so much more than his openness. This is art at its best, accessible yet sublime, simple yet intense. This is a purchase you'd wish you had done sooner. Long live Mr. Williams!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Pain, suffering - and wonder By Glynn Young Shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize, "I Knew the Bride" by Hugo Williams is a marvelous collection of poetry.The poems in the collection are roughly divided into those that look backward and those that focus on the immediate. They are at once beautiful and provocative; 18 of the poems are grouped together as “From the Dialysis Ward.” Poets have written about dealing serious illness, but I’ve rarely seen the jagged beauty I find in these 18.This is the poetry of pain, sharp pain, sometimes met with despair and sometimes with humor, but always with the determination to get through it. Williams is suffering from kidney disease, and is on another kind of list – a list for a transplant. That’s why, perhaps, the dialysis poems also convey a sense of urgency.If I’m EarlyEvery other day I follow the routeof the Midland Railwayto where it cuts throughSt. Pancras Old Church Cemetery.I might go into the churchand heave a sigh or twobefore continuing via a gateset in the cemetery wallto the Mary Rankin Wingof St. Pancras Hispital.As a young man, Thomas Hardysupervised the removal of bodiesfrom part of the cemeteryto make way for the trains.He placed the headstonesround an ash tree sapling,now grown tall, where I stop sometimesto look at the stonescrowding around the old treelike children listening to a story.That image – the headstones crowding around “like children listening to a story” – is a kind of signature for Williams. He excels at creating images like that, images that startle and grab you by the throat until you realize how exactly right they are. Even immortality, he suggests, can change.The title poem, “I Knew the Bride,” is about his younger sister, Polly, who died from cancer in 2004. It’s a longish poem, and makes much about the idea of hair; he’s taking on his sister’s journey from childhood to death and he punctuates it with references to her hair, including the loss of it at the end of her life. But it finishes with an image that takes your breath away.The heart cries out at this, and indeed at all of the poems in this collection.
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