This is a wonderful reading, which I have just discovered today, and makes an excellent introduction for newcomers to Hill's poetry. Go to it students!
Showing posts with label Poetry Readings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry Readings. Show all posts
Monday, January 25, 2016
Friday, September 13, 2013
Sir Geoffrey Hill at Villeroy, September 8, 2013
On the 99th anniversary of Péguy's death, commemorated by the Amitié Charles Péguy at Villeroy on the Sunday that follows September 5th, Sir Geoffrey Hill met several descendants of the poet and read from The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy.
The five stanzas are from the tenth section of the poem that was first published thirty years ago this year. Next to Sir Geoffrey Hill is Michel Péguy, Péguy's grandson. On the other side, with the microphone, is the Mayor of Villeroy. This video was produced by Olivier Péguy, Péguy's great-grandson. Sir Geoffrey Hill was voted an honorary member of Amitié Charles Péguy earlier this year. More information can be found at the Péguy association's website (http://www.charlespeguy.fr).
The five stanzas are from the tenth section of the poem that was first published thirty years ago this year. Next to Sir Geoffrey Hill is Michel Péguy, Péguy's grandson. On the other side, with the microphone, is the Mayor of Villeroy. This video was produced by Olivier Péguy, Péguy's great-grandson. Sir Geoffrey Hill was voted an honorary member of Amitié Charles Péguy earlier this year. More information can be found at the Péguy association's website (http://www.charlespeguy.fr).
Thursday, August 22, 2013
European Paths and Voices
Sir Geoffrey Hill will be reading from his work at 6:15 pm. The event is free and open to the public. Catholic University of Paris, 21 rue d'Assas, 75006 Paris, Room B01.
9:15 Opening words by Pauline Piettre & Ineke Bockting
9:30-10:15
Elizabeth Müller (Nantes/ICP), (Yeats and Dante)
10:15-11:00
Brian Arkins (NUI, Gallway), "The Theme of opposites: Yeats and Oedipus"
Tea & Coffee Break
11:30-12:15
Peter McDonald (Christ Church, Oxford), "Gaiety and Dread: Late Yeats and Hill"
Keynote Address 12:15-13:15
Colbert Kearney (Cork), "September 2013"
Lunch
14:30-15:15
Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec (Caen/ICP), "Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Péguy, Hill"
15:15-16:00
Susan Ang (U. Singapore), 'Poetic conversations': Hill, Pavese, Pindar
Short Break
16:15-17:00
Peter Behrman de Sinéty (ENS), “Nothing broken”: translated Europeans in Geoffrey Hill’s Orchards of Syon
17:15-18:00
Kenneth Haynes (Brown), "European Witness: The German Resistance in the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill"
Short Break
18:15-19:15
Sir Geoffrey Hill (Oxford Professor of Poetry) reads from his work
Friday, December 30, 2011
On the feast of Saint Daniel
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.
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.
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
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