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Hugo Williams’s new poems confirm his national-treasure status

A review of ‘I Knew the Bride’, by Hugo Williams. A marvellous, memorious collection drawn to the second world war and family heartache

Hugo Williams. Photo: Getty Images 
issue 20 September 2014
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  • I Knew the Bride

    Hugo Williams

    Faber, pp. 80

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