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Yes, it seems strange to say it, but the Geoffrey Hill of 2012 vintage *needs an editor*. The opening poem of Odi Barbare has some wonderful lines, not in the stanza quoted though, and others which should have been safely buried in a pets' cemetery. 'verdictive', as I'd remarked, was a coinage by the ex-MI6 man and Oxford philosopher J.L.Austin, who believed in *traditional* language, so much so he also inflicted 'performative', the beats-all-comers pseud's corner word in modern poetry talk, to the poor battered world. On 29 May 2012 23:46, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The word “infrastructure” is not a Larkin word. For that, you would need > a very different kind of poetry, say Geoffrey Hill’s High Modernism in > ancient sapphics, the first poem in his new volume Odi Barbare (2012): > > Anarchs’ paradiso the infrastructure, > Luck permitting love and its grave verdictives. > Some have gone purblind and athwart our sensors, > Broken not brain dead. > > see current NYRB online > Ricks on Larkin -- David Joseph Bircumshaw "We are shallow, mababaw ang kaligayahan." -* F. Sionil José* Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/