On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, David Bircumshaw
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> It has a lot of force, Dominic, although there's still this strong sense of
> Geoffrey Hill waving a hammer and sickle, as it were. The Geoffrey Hill of
> the earlier part of the 'King Log' book in particular, I think.
Interesting you should say that, because that's the stuff of Hill's
that really grabbed me initially, even though I tend to think of these
as drawing on the poetics of the much later "Speech! Speech!".
A red G. H. wouldn't be a bad thing, surely. Especially as the real G.
H. has taken to dedicating his books to the likes of Chris (*spit*)
Woodhead.
Dominic
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