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...