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In one of his final publications, Geoffrey Hill asserts his commitment to 'the strangeness and the power of poetry'. The words accord with many readers' responses to Hill's own poetry. It is generally seen as 'powerful', in rhetorical, formal, intellectual and emotional terms, and is much concerned with issues of political and aesthetic power. … 'Strangeness' may here stand for the remarkable distinctiveness of his poetry, which over more than...

This collection of major critical readings of Conrad's work addresses crucially important and in many cases controversial issues within contemporary theory and criticism. The opening section looks at how the study of Conrad's work has been politicised since the 1970s, with subsequent sections covering 'Narrative, Textuality and Interpretation', 'Imperialism', 'Gender and Sexuality', 'Class and Ideology', and 'Modernity'. Each contain critical ...

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A clear introductory account of the work of Geoffrey Hill, who is widely regarded as one of the finest British poets of our time.

The poems in "something has to happen next, " if given the chance, might peer down inquisitively from a great height, they speak of quietness, namelessness, the reachlessness of love, the fortune of animals and their silence, apocalypse, abandonment, beginnings, and endings.