Fast Music by Hugo Williams Lesley Saunders aware of the passing years

aware of the passing years

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Fast Music by Hugo Williams Lesley Saunders aware of the passing years'He's a poet of such intimate charm, such grace and cunning, and such ordinary comic sadness, that he wins your affection and admiration.' Hermione Lee, Guardian Fast Music refers as much to the fast dance music that caused Williams to run round the room on the furniture aged three as to the speed of life, thought and to poetry itself, which works harder and faster than ordinary speech. In a poem about his typewriter, the 'undiscovered islands' are