Geoffrey Hill
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ReadySteadyBook reports that Geoffrey Hill‘s Collected Critical Writings is due out from OUP in March. I wouldn’t expect an easy read, of course, but perhaps his criticism might elucidate his poetic to some extent. Not having read any of it, I wouldn’t know, but it should be worth a look. Several of the essay titles
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Imagine my surprise, on flicking through this week’s Guardian Review to find that the book of the week is not only a collection of poetry but a new book by Geoffrey Hill, A Treatise of Civil Power*. At last! The Guardian has been supportive of Hill for a while, but I don’t remember the last
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Reading this review, I was struck by the American reviewer’s incomprehension of “the dichotomy … of accessibility vs difficulty” (an incomprehension I share to a great extent, as you might know if you’ve read my post on Geoffrey Hill). I was set to wondering what it is that makes this tribalism so British. It’s not
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I’ve been dipping in and out of Geoffrey Hill‘s new book, Without Title, lately. It’s not his most immediately captivating work, but there are flashes of the Hill brilliance here and there throughout. Hill is one of those poets considered difficult. I’m not about to deny that his work is dense and challenging, but I
Amy Jo Philip 