Beginning with his 1965 debut Symptoms of Loss and including Self-Portrait With a Slide (1990) and Writing Home (1985), described by Mick imlah in the Independent on Sunday as 'a classic of creative autobiography', this collected poems is brought right up to date with Dock Leaves and Billy's Rain, winner of the 1999 T.S. Eliot Award. Collected Poems brings together work from eight books that testify to Hugo Williams's reputation as a master of irony and autobiography; a writer subtly able to 'slip back to the past as effortlessly as a dreamer' The Times