Sir GH & his Books

Brown University's Hay Library is hosting an exhibit on Hill's books until October 1.  Organized by Kenneth Haynes (editor of Hill's Collected Critical Essays 2008), it displays first editions of Hill's published books of poetry as well as books that influenced the work.

Links
Brown University Library News Blog, (http://blogs.brown.edu/libnews/new-exhibit-on-view-geoffrey-hill-and-his-books).

Coming to a bookstore near you in paperback....

First published in 2008, the Collected Critical Writings of Geoffrey Hill, edited by Kenneth Haynes, is now out in paperback.

Recent reviews include Adam Piette, who qualifies the book as a "monumental defence of an ethical poetics." Nigel Beale compares Hill's prose to Marshall McLuhan.

Links
Oxford University Press (www.oup.com).
Nigel Beale, "A Congealed Nebulosity," Critical Flame (2009).
John Casey, "Poetry's Serious Endeavour," The Tablet (June 26, 2008).
Adam Kirsch, Review CCW, Times Literary Supplement (July 18, 2008).
Tom Lubbock, "An uphill struggle to the heights," Evening Standard (April 7, 2008).
John Lyon, Letter to TLS (July 30, 2008).
Emily Taylor Merriman, Review CCW and SP, Christianity & Literature 58:4 (Summer 2009).
Chris Miller, Review CCW, The Warwick Review 2:4 (December 2008).
Kathryn Murphy, "In My Opnion, Having Read These Things," PN Review 191 (January-February, 2010).
Adam Piette, Review CCW in Blackbox Manifold (July 2009).
David-Antoine Williams, Review CCW in Times Higher Education (March 20, 2008).

Hill wins Truman Capote Award for Collected Critical Writings

April is not the cruelest month for some, and in the US it's National Poetry Month.  It has been a rewarding month for Geoffrey Hill who just won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.  Not only that, but some people see him as the next Poet Laureate. 

Links:

University of Iowa News Services, "Geoffrey Hill wins 2009 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism," (April 15, 2009).

On the Laureateship:

Sarah Knapton, "Seamus Heaney backs Geoffrey Hill for Poet Laureate," Telegraph (April 13, 2009).

Alison Flood, "Duffy is hottest tip for poet laureate," Guardian (February 25, 2009).

"The search for Andrew Motion's successor," Poetry Society (Spring 2009).

Density of Reference

Alex Pestell's review of Hill's Collected Critical Writings (OUP, 2008) was recently published in Textual Practice 22.3 (University of Sussex, 2008).  Here is an excerpt:  "The emerging key texts of cultural studies, with their dual focus on high culture and working-class culture, are a detectable presence, both in the volume's endnotes and more generally in Hill's commitment to a socially-orientated criticism."

Hill's conference at the Collège de France on-line (MP3)

Geoffrey Hill was invited by Michael Edwards to speak at the Collège de France (March 18, 2008), and the conference has been posted on-line in MP3 format (July 2008).