Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012
Hill has for 40-odd years kept his language as close-textured, tough, knotted and lyrical as poetry can be. If he makes old Eliot seem by comparison an easy read it is not for mere show; these poems are as beautiful, hard, compressed and granular as the rocks and stones and trees from which they are made. Fred Inglis, The Times Higher Education Supplement If the phrase 'greatest living poet in the English language' has any meaning, then we should use it to describe Hill. Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian He can rival the best. Jeremy Noel-Tod, The Sunday Times our greatest post-war poet ... Now arrives the summation of his lifes work: Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012. Sameer Rahim, The Telegraph The one certain genius now at work in the English Language Alan Marshall, Sunday Telegraph Anyone who reads Broken Hierarchies through will recognise that Hill is seriously good, and that he probably belongs among the great. Colin Burrow, London Review of Books The greatest living English poet. Michael Dirda, Washington Post By far the most distinguished exponent of his calling yet alive. A.N. Wilson, Daily Telegraph Just a thousand pages of verse from perhaps our greatest living poet. Oxford Today Our greatest living poet is a reminder to those in public life of the energy of intelligence created by the writing and criticism of poetry. Daniel Johnson, Standpoint Recommended Summer Reading: Astonishing Rachel Polonsky, Times Literary Supplement