{"product_id":"9780571264766","title":"Dear Room","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDear Room\u003c\/i\u003e is a worthy successor to \u003ci\u003eBilly's Rain\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), whose preoccupations and occasions it continues and ramifies, charting the 'angles, signals, orders, murmurs, sighs' of love, separation and loss. With grave good humour, ruefully exact timing and a scruple reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, these poems register the goodbye look of things, and ponder the difference between a good memory and an inability to forget. By turns candid, caustic and drastically self-accusing, the many tenses and afterlives of desire are parsed - in sawn-off monologues, short stories in verse, thumbnail dramas, splintery photographs. In poem after poem Hugo Williams joins a sense of things missed and missing to a redemptive act of imaginative capture, and \u003ci\u003eDear Room\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers an ethics of the present, reminding us in the words of Philip Larkin that 'days are where we live'.\u003cbr\u003e'Possibly the most original poet of his generation in England'.  - Edna Longley\u003cbr\u003e'Williams is a poet of such intimate charm, such grace and cunning, and such ordinary comical sadness, that he wins your affection and admiration' - Hermoine Lee, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'His great subject is time, and time's power to consume both what is hated and what is loved'. - Helen Dunmore, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'Not since Thom Gunn's \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e has there been a \u003ci\u003eCollected\u003c\/i\u003e as startling and poignant as Hugo Williams's \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. Williams shows us, like no other contemporary poet, what is so strangely undramatic about our personal dramas'. - Adam Phillips, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176006697200,"sku":"9780571264766","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571264766_p0.jpg?v=1763719531","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571264766","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}