Back in 2009, Rogue Strands featured Phil Brown's excellent interview with Hugo Williams in the now-disappeared Horizon Review. Seven years on, Brown has published a feature in The Huffington Post in which he describes the curious context of the above-mentioned interview, together with other anecdotes about his experiences with Williams from 2007 to the present day.
Brown's article is a lovely example of how one poet can affect another. This is down to the generosity of its frank tone and revelatory content: we learn a lot about Hugo Williams, but just as much about Phil Brown himself.
For many years, the Edinburgh-based Irish poet Hayden Murphy has been
producing wonderful keepsake poems to mark Bloomsday and since 1992 he has
been colla...
Dear Matthew
ReplyDeleteI once watched an interview with Hugo at Poetry East. He came over as a real gentleman although I've never been able to get on with his poetry.
Best wishes from Simon R. Gladdish