writing, All the Time in the World, published in 1966, described his trip around the world at the age of 21, financed by his father in order "to break a trust fund". A second travel book, No Particular Place to Go, appeared in 1981. Personal life Williams has been married to the singer and writer Hermine Demoriane since 1965. They have one daughter, Murphy Williams. He bought a house in the Islington district of London in 1966 and has lived there ever since. Williams received a successful kidney transplant in 2014 after undergoing dialysis for several years. Prizes 1966 Eric Gregory Award 1971 Cholmondeley Award 1980 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Love-Life 1999 T. S. Eliot Prize for Billy's Rain 2004 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for Collected Poems 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist for Dear Room 2007 Costa Book Award Shortlist for Dear Room Bibliography Poetry Symptoms of Loss: Poems, Oxford University Press, 1965 Sugar Daddy, Oxford University Press, 1970 Some Sweet Day, Oxford University Press, 1975 Love-Life (with drawings by Jessica Gwynne), André Deutsch, 1979 – winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Writing Home, Oxford University Press, 1985 Selected Poems, Oxford University Press, 1989 Self-Portrait with a Slide, Oxford University Press, 1990 Dock Leaves, Faber and Faber, 1994 Penguin Modern Poets 11, (Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion, Hugo Williams) Penguin, 1997 Billy's Rain, Faber and Faber, 1999 Curtain Call: 101 Portraits in Verse (editor), Faber and Faber, 2001 Collected Poems, Faber and Faber, 2002 Dear Room, Faber and Faber, 2006 West End Final, Faber and Faber, 2009 I Knew the Bride, Faber and Faber, 2014 Dialysis Days, Grey Suit Editions, 2018 Lines Off, Faber and Faber, 2019 Other This list may also include some poetry books: All the Time in the World, Ross, 1966 No Particular Place to Go, Cape, 1981 Freelancing: Adventures of a Poet, Faber and Faber, 1995 Some RB and Black Pop, Greville Press, 1998 Critical studies and reviews of Williams' work Reviews I Knew the Bride. See also 2014 in poetry References External links Hugo Williams Poems in Qualm Interview in Horizon Magazine People educated at Eton College Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature 1942 births Living people English male poets T. S. Eliot Prize winners