An Hour with Hilson

Jeff Hilson is a poet, critic, editor and teacher. He has written five books of poetry: stretchers (Reality Street, 2006), Bird bird (Landfill, 2009), In The Assarts (Veer, 2010), Latanoprost Variations (Boiler House Press, 2017) and Organ Music (Crater Press, 2020). He edited The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, 2008) and with David Grundy edited a special issue of The British and Irish Journal of Innovative Poetry on the work late Sean Bonney which came out in Autumn 2022. Hilson Hilson, a book of responses to Jeff’s own writing by his peers, edited by Richard Parker, is still available from Crater Press. Jeff runs Xing the Line poetry reading series in London with the poet Iris Colomb. Until recently he taught Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton.

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Event curated by Agnes Lehoczky.