In the words of the magazine Poetry Review, a kind of late fury has gripped Geoffrey Hill in recent years after a decade's silence, with Canaan (1996), The Triumph of Love (1998), Speech! Speech! (2001) - all published in Penguin - and now this new volume. All these books are driven by a profound quarrel with the modern world. This new book consists of 72 numbered poems, each of 24 lines. Together they make up a kind of Dantean eclogue in which the landscape of Hill's youth - rural Worcestershire - offers a glimpse of paradise in the midst of the modern world. This is a major poet writing serious, beautiful poetry.
- ISBN10 0141009918
- ISBN13 9780141009919
- Publish Date 5 September 2002 (first published 14 February 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 August 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English