Even as I admired this, Dominic, part of my mind turned to wondering whether Geoffrey Hill had had any influence at all on poets writing in England or indeed anywhere else. I have become lazy as Hill has become prolific, and vaguely feel his prowess represents the end of an old line.
I need to read more of your work, obviously, and who else, I wonder?
Bromsgrovian - after a while I seemed to remember that GH hails from some such obscure place in I forget which county, and it is amusing to think the inhabitants might have as their vernacular a spoken version of Hill's extraordinary English.
Hmm, I also need to look up 'ceasefire'
Max
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> From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: January's poem for Ceasefire
> Date: 24 January 2012 9:44:46 AM AEDT
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> It's quite beautiful, Dominic, but it is still saturated with Geoffrey
> Hill, beautifully phrased and cadenced, but in pure tones of waxed
> Bromsgrovian.
>
> On 22 January 2012 23:43, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Gothic as gnostic: the down-
>> slanting taint of light
>> speckling the inert stone
>>
>> a vast concretion
>> torn within itself
>> is it the great heart
>>
>> of the people
>> that so entertains
>> saturnalia and alleluia
>>
>> alloys exquisite judgement, unkempt
>> earthly mercy, all in its own time
>>
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