Tobias Hill's first full-length collection, "Year of the Dog", won an Eric Gregory award in 1995. Dominated by images and narratives from Hill's stay in Japan, as well as other travel poems, the book contains Hill's celebrated sequence "A Year in Japan", with its sweeping filmic narratives of the poet's encounters in a distant and strange land. Hill's skills in depicting urban pastoral landscapes and human tableux are much in evidence. Now made available in a new edition, this hard to obtain work will delight fans and collectors. 'Hill's special territory, in poetry and prose, is the 'urban-pastoral' ...his native North London is transformed, with many deftly dark touches, into an uneasy realm of the imagination. Hill clearly appreciated Simon Armitage's storytelling persona; he also drew upon observation of the natural world in ways associated with Ted Hughes. Much of his imagery is by turns delicately 'Japanese', or reminiscent of the heyday of Craig Raine's 'Martian' style. Hill has a romantic dimension in his work that is all his own. As a young man with an intense curiosity about the world, his work is full of sensual images, vignettes of city life - and romance ...these are poems of flirtation and desire' - contemporarywriters. co.uk. 'The closeup detail taken directly from nature, then skewed through 90 degrees to give the reader something completely new, even unique ...with this third collection, Hill promises to be a real force in poetry, displaying an utterly contemporary understanding of how nature continues to work' - "Poetry Review".
| ISBN | 1844714780 | | Published in | Cambridge | | ISBN13 | 9781844714780
(What's this?) | | Series title | Salt Modern Poets S. | | Publisher | Salt Publishing | | Previous ISBN | 9781844714155 | | Imprint | Salt Publishing | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 140 | | Publication date | 15 Mar 2008 | | Spine width (mm) | 10 | | Pages | 64 | | Academic level | General | | Weight (grammes) | 96 | |
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London Pastoral Close The Mosquito's Opposite Waiting In The Rooms Of The Plague House The Secret Of Burning Diamonds A Year In Japan: January February March April May June July August September October November December Snake Oil Night-Ride, Japan On The Island Of Pearls Today The House Is Full Of Dishcloths Rio In Carnival Dreaming Of Home Prelude From The Bullet Train On The Slow Mountain Train Green Tea Cooling Jael The Vampire's Price The Long Road To Silence The Barber's Daughter The Ritual Of Making Makondi Sculpture
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