In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
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. Hugo Williams lives in London.