Zoo

Tobias Hill (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

80 Seiten

2016
Salt Publishing (Verlag)
9781844715503 (ISBN)

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Zoo is Tobias Hill’s third collection of poems. It shows the growing maturity of a voice already distinctive three years ago, when his first collection was noted for its ‘grand irony and playful humour, with episodes of tenderness and even charm’.

Hill’s poems combine narrative impetus with musical lyricism. Influenced by the poetry of Japan and the paintings of Edward Hopper, they are full of intense sound, smell, and visions, Often through a nocturnal eye, Hill describes an urban-pastoral landscape, full of the greenhouse luxuriance of city flora, fauna and humanity.

“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° 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

“There is a fin de siècle decadence about them ... not least in their brightly coloured diction, their luxuriant descriptiveness, their louche postures.”

– Poetry Wales

“Superb conjurations of place.”

– Adam Mars Jones

“Compassionate and intelligent ... so full of action and interest and that brings alive such an array of people and places, that it is difficult to believe they sprang from the pen of one writer.”

– Rachel Cusk

Tobias Fleet Hill (30 March 1970 – 26 August 2023) was a British poet, essayist, writer of short stories and novelist. Selected as one of the country’s Next Generation poets, shortlisted for the 2004 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and named by the TLS as one of the best young writers in the country, Tobias Hill was one of the leading British writers of his generation. His award-winning collections of poetry are Year of the Dog, Midnight in the City of Clocks, and Zoo. His fiction has been published to acclaim in many countries. AS Byatt has observed that “There is no other voice today quite like this.”

Magnolia Flowers
Draining the Grand Union
Twelfth Night
Sushi
Michael the Zoo Keeper
The Elephant Girl
Closing Time
Leonardo’s Machines
Gibbons in a Northern Spring
How to Curse
Flora & Fauna
Drunk Autumn Midnight below Victoria Embankment
The Patron Saint of Prisoners
Prospero’s Cell
Doctor Crippen in Love
Lime Light
Poem for a North London Wedding
Snapshot of an Egotist
Self-Portraits by Children
Saturday Night Fever
A Night in the Room of a Clown
Excerpts from a London Zoo Guide Book, 1928
The Islands of Pumpkins
Dowsing with Whalebones
A Page of a Guide to a Small Island
A Crossroads
The Sound of Cages
The Pilot in Winter
Nightlight

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2016
Reihe/Serie	Salt Modern Poets
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-13	9781844715503 / 9781844715503
Zustand	Neuware