Description
This first selection of Geoffrey Hill’s poetry charts the evolution of a complex, uncompromising, visionary body of work over fifty years. It includes poems from Hill’s astonishing debut, For the Unfallen, through the verset-sequence Mercian Hymns, to acclaimed recent work, including The Orchards of Syon and Without Title.







Gold from the Stone
Eight Sections
The Tamarit Poems
This Is Yarrow
Steep Tea
Words the Turtle Taught Me
States of Happiness
Counting Creatures