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Haunting and hallucinatory: hospital poems from Hugo Williams

22 June 2019

9:00 AM

22 June 2019

9:00 AM

Hugo Williams’s wryly candid reports from the front lines of sex and family life are a perennial delight. Often timeless, they also frequently bring the styles and music of the 1950s and 1960s back to elegant life. These pleasures can be found once again in Williams’s new book, Lines Off; but this time they’re not unmixed.

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