The 2005 edition appears to have been from Clutag Press (ISBN 978-0954727536) and then taken up
in 2007 by Penguin (ISBN 978-0141032269)
Roger Collett
Arrowhead Press
http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: Hill Review in NYT
> I'd just finished reading the Logan review when Roger's post appeared.
>
> Pretty useless, I thought (why do critics feel they have to waffle portentiously?) but the
> quotations from Hill's poems were enough to send me off to order the book immediately.
>
> I was puzzled by the discussion of the poem on Thomas Cromwell and Wyatt that Logan quotes.
> The sonnet itself was intriguing, and some of the background that Logan notes was useful, but
> his discussion seemed to ignore or avoid or be unaware of the weird disjunction between what
> the sonnet says about Wyatt and what we "know" -- or does Logan know something that I don't?
>
> And the point about a link between Hill's earlier garrulity and his use of antidepressants was
> I suppose interesting, more so (the one substantial element of the review) that the title poem
> was dismembered from an earlier publication:
>
> "There's one peculiarity that should be mentioned: Hill published an earlier version of "A
> Treatise of Civil Power" in 2005 with a small English press. The long title poem is missing
> from this new edition, though scattered stanzas show up as individual poems ..."
>
> Other than that ...
>
> Robin
>
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> From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 5:32 AM
> Subject: Hill Review in NYT
>
>
>> You might be interested in this:
>> http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?pagewanted=1&tntget=2008/01/20/books/review/Logan-t.html
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