Geoffrey Hill Zinger: "Obsessed with the difficulty of honest poetic speech"

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

"Obsessed with the difficulty of honest poetic speech"

That is Adam Kirsch describing Geoffrey Hill's New and Collected Poems 1952-1992 in his review of Without Title (New York Sun, March 28, 2007). "The best reason to read Mr. Hill is . . . the self-forgetting that occurs when he writes about nature and landscape, love and death."

International Conferences & Seminars

2008 Keble College, Oxford, "Geoffrey Hill and His Contexts"

2008 Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV, "British Poetry 1950-2008 and the Public/Private Divide"

2008 Université de Caen, "Selected Poems from Modernism to Now"

2007 University of Warwick, "Poets Reading Philosophy, Philosophers Reading Poetry"

2005 University of London (ESSE 8), "British & European: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill"

2003 Université de Caen, "La Poésie de Geoffrey Hill et la modernité"

2002 Université Denis Diderot-Paris VII, "Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Poésie Anglophone"

2001 University of Warwick, "Tradition and Translation: The Work of Geoffrey Hill"