{"product_id":"dear-room","title":"Dear Room","description":"\u003cb\u003eDear Room\u003c\/b\u003e is a worthy successor to \u003cb\u003eBilly's Rain\u003c\/b\u003e (1999), whose preoccupations and occasions it continues and ramifies, charting the 'angles, signals, orders, murmurs, sighs' of love, separation and loss. With grave good humour, ruefully exact timing and a scruple reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, these poems register the goodbye look of things, and ponder the difference between a good memory and an inability to forget. By turns candid, caustic and drastically self-accusing, the many tenses and afterlives of desire are parsed - in sawn-off monologues, short stories in verse, thumbnail dramas, splintery photographs. In poem after poem Hugo Williams joins a sense of things missed and missing to a redemptive act of imaginative capture, and \u003cb\u003eDear Room\u003c\/b\u003e uncovers an ethics of the present, reminding us in the words of Philip Larkin that 'days are where we live'.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54225520066904,"sku":"9780571230372","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571230372.jpg?v=1777204833","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dear-room","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}