{"product_id":"i-knew-the-bride-9780571308897","title":"I Knew the Bride","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hugo Williams\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to slip back to the past as effortlessly as a dreamer' (\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Knew the Bride\u003c\/i\u003e is Williams' eleventh collection of poems, and his first since \u003ci\u003eWest End Final\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes for poetry in 2009. This new volume bears -- and lays bare -- those qualities that have become so characteristic of his work: his unflinching survey of his childhood and adult life alike, alighting on moments of vivacity from his upbringing in a theatrical family in the 1940s and 50s (the title poem a touching tribute to his late sister) through to the romantic peaks and pains of his adult years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStraight-talking, self-deprecating and funny, these recklessly accountable inspections are set against a Williamsesque miscellany of day-to-day backdrops that readers have come to treasure: of record collections, kitchen sinks, shopping bicycles, hotels, bedrooms. But \u003ci\u003eI Knew the Bride\u003c\/i\u003e is no mere rehearsal of old lives lived; instead it takes the author and his readers into startling new terrain in a series of brave, painful and profoundly moving poems 'From the Dialysis Ward', in which the author records his own ongoing hospital treatment with a fearless vulnerability that makes this collection of poems a courageous and inspiring read.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890537185431,"sku":"9780571308897","price":936.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780571308897.webp?v=1781180419","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/i-knew-the-bride-9780571308897","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}