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His and hers poetry Anthony Thwaite on new collections by Hugo Williams and Carol Ann Duffy
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Collected Poems
by Hugo Williams
Faber, pounds 20, 288 pp
pounds 18 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
Feminine Gospels
by Carol Ann Duffy
Picador, pounds 12.99, 65 pp
pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
HUGO WILLIAMS'S Collected Poems is a surprisingly solid book.
Though I'd enjoyed his poems right from the start, in his first book
(Symptoms of Loss, 1965), published when he was in his early
twenties, there was a later period when he seemed to be writing lots
of very short whimsical bits of verse, heavily influenced by the late
Ian Hamilton, the sort of thing Clive James parodiedI ...
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