December 11, 2011 was a day not missed by many Geoffrey Hill readers in London. Hill gave a poetry reading at Southbank Center that featured poems from Clavics as well as previous volumes, followed by a book signing and readings by James Byrne, Kate Kilalea (in photo below), and Niall McDevitt.
Hill said that the owl on the cover of Clavics was an adaptation of a photo taken by Eric Hosking somewhere between 1944-1947. He said this was a case in which he knew the photo before beginning the book, and wrote the book for the cover, in a way similar to Canaan.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
December 11, 2011
Don't miss the treat of hearing Geoffrey Hill read from his work in the Purcell Room, at Royal Festive Hall, Sunday December 11, 2011 at 2 p.m. Tickets can be booked here:
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/geoffrey-hill
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/geoffrey-hill
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Bastille Day Announcements
The Guardian on July 14, 2011 ran an article about Geoffrey Hill's Clavics being shortlisted for the Forward Prize.
Links:
Maev Kennedy, "Forward shortlist includes Geoffrey Hill, Sean O'Brien and David Harsent," Guardian (July 14, 2011).
Links:
Maev Kennedy, "Forward shortlist includes Geoffrey Hill, Sean O'Brien and David Harsent," Guardian (July 14, 2011).
Friday, June 17, 2011
Bibliographics
GEOFFREY HILL
Interview:
Jessica Campbell, "Interview: Geoffrey Hill, Oxford Professor of Poetry," The Oxford Student (May 26, 2011).
Poetry by Hill:
"from Clavics," Poetry Review 101:1 (Spring 2011).
On-Line Talks
Geoffrey Hill on how "The Violent Bear it Away," King James Bible, 400 Years at University of Cambridge (2011).
ABOUT HILL'S WORK
Reviews of Clavics:
Lachian Mackinon, "Clavics by Geoffrey Hill: Discords and distractions," The Independent (June 3, 2011).
Recent critical essays on Hill's work:
Alex Wylie, "Eros in Geoffrey Hill's Scenes from Comus," English (April 11, 2011).
Andrew Michael Roberts, "Geoffrey Hill" in The Cambridge History of English Poetry, ed. Michael O'Neill (CUP, 2010) 936-55.
Other Reviews:
Patrick Kurp, "Selected Poems by Geoffrey Hil," The Quarterly Conversation (date?).
Emmanuel Laugier, "Le Triomphe de l'amour," Le Matricule des Anges 84 (date?).
Blog posts:
Anon, "Geoffrey Hill: Mercian Hymns"(Jan 24, 2011).
Bebrowed, "Geoffrey Hill does Wales (oddly)" (January 18, 2011).
Kemal, "Nikki Giovanni, Bicycles: Love Poems, and Reflections on Geoffrey Hill" (January 5, 2011).
Older pieces:
Nick Owchar, "Geoffrey Hill: the poet's public burden," Los Angeles Times (April 30, 2009).
Albert Testani, "Geoffrey Hill speaks his thoughts," The Yorker (November 23, 2007).
Interview:
Jessica Campbell, "Interview: Geoffrey Hill, Oxford Professor of Poetry," The Oxford Student (May 26, 2011).
Poetry by Hill:
"from Clavics," Poetry Review 101:1 (Spring 2011).
On-Line Talks
Geoffrey Hill on how "The Violent Bear it Away," King James Bible, 400 Years at University of Cambridge (2011).
ABOUT HILL'S WORK
Reviews of Clavics:
Lachian Mackinon, "Clavics by Geoffrey Hill: Discords and distractions," The Independent (June 3, 2011).
Recent critical essays on Hill's work:
Alex Wylie, "Eros in Geoffrey Hill's Scenes from Comus," English (April 11, 2011).
Andrew Michael Roberts, "Geoffrey Hill" in The Cambridge History of English Poetry, ed. Michael O'Neill (CUP, 2010) 936-55.
Other Reviews:
Patrick Kurp, "Selected Poems by Geoffrey Hil," The Quarterly Conversation (date?).
Emmanuel Laugier, "Le Triomphe de l'amour," Le Matricule des Anges 84 (date?).
Blog posts:
Anon, "Geoffrey Hill: Mercian Hymns"(Jan 24, 2011).
Bebrowed, "Geoffrey Hill does Wales (oddly)" (January 18, 2011).
Kemal, "Nikki Giovanni, Bicycles: Love Poems, and Reflections on Geoffrey Hill" (January 5, 2011).
Older pieces:
Nick Owchar, "Geoffrey Hill: the poet's public burden," Los Angeles Times (April 30, 2009).
Albert Testani, "Geoffrey Hill speaks his thoughts," The Yorker (November 23, 2007).
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Happy May Day!

Clavics is listed as a bestseller for the London Review Bookshop (newsletter of April 28th).
The book was reviewd in The Economist (first time that's happened for a book of poetry by Hill).
For more breadth, why not listen to Hill's first and second Oxford Professor of Poetry lectures on-line?
He'll be speaking again, on "Poetry and Disproportion" in Oxford, on May 10th, at 5:30 p.m. in the South School of the Examination Schools.
Links:
"Mr Difficult," The Economist (April 4, 2011).
Geoffrey Hill, "Eccentric to the ends of his master or state," second lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry (http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/kebl/general/2011-hill-poetry-2.mp3). (See also http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/news-events/news/201104/professor-poetry-podcasts).
Oxford Professor of Poetry Lecture Announcement (www.english.ox.ac.uk).
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