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,
“... will soon become so. Hill was very taken by the American editor who explained the description of King Offa as ‘overlord of the M5’ in Mercian Hymns as referring to a branch of the British secret service rather than the motorway system. Such contingent stuff enters his poetry with a mordant mischief, as though advertising its transience, a spirit that has ... ”