The Troubled Beautiful: Selected Poems (1965 - 1977) by Jeremy Hilton
Knives Forks and Spoons Press
This volume brings more than a decade of Jeremy Hilton's early work back into public view and enables his achievement to take its place alongside friends and fellow travellers such as Ulli Freer, Chris Torrance, Douglas Oliver and Peter Riley. These poems are fascinated by movement ' whether it be of the natural world, particularly bird life, of mechanical means, or the emotional motion of the 'geometry of friendship.' With the ethical heart and mind of a professional social worker, these are poems lived out in the open, amongst humans and nature, and in dialogue with mountains (Yr Wyddfa) and places as well as books and paintings (Freer, Olson, Hesse, Melville, Schiele), alert to their vitality as much as 'the start of their unworlding'. This volume covers a very great distance indeed and will leave a reader invigorated and changed by 'language so alive / it boggles me.' ' Scott Thurston
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