Geoffrey Hill Zinger: Rahim's Hill = expressiveness

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Rahim's Hill = expressiveness

The interview with Sir Geoffrey Hill in today's Telegraph, by Sameer Rahim, the deputy literary editor of the journal, is excellent; and the photos by Clara Molden are as grand as the text itself. Hill claims he is after "expressiveness" in poetry.

Sameer Rahim, "Geoffrey Hill: Poetry should be shocking and surprising," Telegraph (December 14, 2013).

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"