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23 March 2022

The NS Poem: Pennies from Heaven

A new poem by Hugo Williams.

By Hugo Williams

Photo by Rafal Kijas/Millennium Images

Hugo Williams’s most recent collection is “Lines Off” (Faber & Faber)

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This article appears in the 23 Mar 2022 issue of the New Statesman, A Dream of Britain