You've seen him read? Wow!
What's he like as a reader? I mean, rhetorical, soliloquising, or a twist
between incantatory and vicious -- I could imagine any of those styles
fitting with the work.
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: Geoffrey Hill: The Orchards of Syon
I saw Hill read some of the Orchards of Syon poems before they were
published. They came across well in that context. I must admit though
that the sequence doesn't really grab me - all those flame-pelts of
denuded hawthorn, self-perjuring / arbiters of contrition | revamping
their perdurance...
Dominic
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