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'A poet at once urgent and timeless' - Christopher Ricks; 'Among our finest poets...the most European.' - George Steiner; 'It is impossible in a short space to convey not merely how good, but how important Hill's writing is - There is no one alive writing in our language about deeper or more important matters, no one saying such interesting things' A. N. Wilson, The Spectator; 'Hill has been writing his incomparable poetry for over fifty years now - each new book of his has been a fresh, and sometimes unexpected, triumph. The combination of immaculate poetic skill with intense originality is always rare, and never more so than in our diminished age' Eric Ormsby, The New Criterion; 'The most important and original body of poetry since Yeats' Peter McDonald, Literary Imagination; 'Hill's poetry is the major achievement of late-twentieth-century verse' William Logan; 'Geoffrey Hill is the greatest living English poet' Michael Dirda, Washington Post; 'If one had now to choose a living poet in English whom Boris Pasternak would recognize, whom George Seferis and T. S. Eliot would take seriously, Geoffrey Hill is the most obvious choice' Peter Levi.
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It is not immediately obvious what Clavics is about. What is apparent that it is an elegiac sequence, mourning for the musician William Lawes who was killed at the Battle of Chester in 1645; delicately constructed, each page is comprised of a section made up of two stanzas, together forming the shape of a key. Before long, however, the tone makes it clear that nothing is to be taken at face value; amongst the lines are provocations and incongruities, playful references and about-turns. Clavics is a celebration of seventeenth-century music and poetry, yet is confrontational and sometimes shockingly modern. From one line to the next you may be pulled out of a potently evoked moment of history, thrust up against the wall of sexual politics and strained meaning in contemporary language, and then dropped back onto a battlefield. Geoffrey Hill's work is at the centre of a debate about how poetry should develop to find its place in contemporary society. Should it embrace the superficial potency of much of modern culture or turn back in upon itself with ever more complex layers of meaning? Should poetry attempt to gain a broader audience and engage 'the market' or consolidate its role as an increasingly obscure bastion of the intellect? Since his election to the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry, Geoffrey Hill has not shied away from these questions in his addresses. Now in his first book since he took his place amongst the highest of poetry academics, he has provided his provocative answer. Clavics has been Shortlisted for Best Collection in the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2011.
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This beautifully produced volume is hard going but repays the effort. It's written in a form used by the metaphysical poet George Herbert and references the English civil war. It's fiersomely clever, dense and passionate. Hill's status as a great poet hardly needs confirming, but in case you were wondering this volume provides solid evidence of his stature.
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