Book description
The fifty poems in Billy's Rain chart the course of a love affair,
now ended. Its complications, obsessions, evasions, secret joys and
emotional pitfalls are explored with all the subtlety and irony of
which Hugo Williams, among contemporary poets, is the acknowledged
master. These are brilliant, wry and moving elegies for a love affair.
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.
