Cute, My Arse
Seamus Perry: Geoffrey Hill, 12 September 2019
The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin
by Geoffrey Hill.
Oxford, 148 pp., £20, April 2019,978 0 19 882952 2 Show More
by Geoffrey Hill.
Oxford, 148 pp., £20, April 2019,
“... may emerge from disaster. ‘My brain,’ Hill says later in the poem, ‘is St Bride’s tower, bell-confused while the bells take plunging fatal rides inside an hour.’ While the churches burned, Whitbread Brewery withstood the flames (‘Whitbread, house of Whitbread, standing in for the City’, as Hill ingenuously explains his allegorising), a symbolic ... ”