Collected Poems
Will be published approx. on 30. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-78463-375-2 (ISBN)
Description
For the first time, this volume gathers together all Tobias Hill's poems from his four full-length collections in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition, introduced by Maura Dooley.
The Collected Poems marks an important moment in British poetry, drawing together Hill's work from his Eric Gregory Award-winning debut, Year of the Dog (1995), to the bestselling Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow (2006). Hill's celebrated 'urban pastoral' was decadent yet austere, driven through radical visual desire. Here in one volume we can see the extent of his imaginative journey, travelling through towns and cityscapes, presenting a simmering world of captured lives, haunting, but filled with charm and wit. The early work is dominated by Japan, where Hill lived for two years, yet it is his beloved London that becomes the imaginative centre of his work, filled with the sensuous intensity of that great city.
Tobias Hill was selected as one of the country's Next Generation poets in 2004, shortlisted for the 2004 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and named by the TLS as one of the best young writers in the country.
The Collected Poems marks an important moment in British poetry, drawing together Hill's work from his Eric Gregory Award-winning debut, Year of the Dog (1995), to the bestselling Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow (2006). Hill's celebrated 'urban pastoral' was decadent yet austere, driven through radical visual desire. Here in one volume we can see the extent of his imaginative journey, travelling through towns and cityscapes, presenting a simmering world of captured lives, haunting, but filled with charm and wit. The early work is dominated by Japan, where Hill lived for two years, yet it is his beloved London that becomes the imaginative centre of his work, filled with the sensuous intensity of that great city.
Tobias Hill was selected as one of the country's Next Generation poets in 2004, shortlisted for the 2004 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and named by the TLS as one of the best young writers in the country.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78463-375-2 (9781784633752)
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Tobias Fleet Hill (30 March 1970 - 26 August 2023) was a British poet, essayist, writer of short stories and novelist. Selected as one of the country's Next Generation poets, shortlisted for the 2004 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and named by the TLS as one of the best young writers in the country, Tobias Hill was one of the leading British writers of his generation. His award-winning collections of poetry are Year of the Dog, Midnight in the City of Clocks, and Zoo. His fiction has been published to acclaim in many countries. AS Byatt has observed that "There is no other voice today quite like this."
Maura Dooley has published several collections of poetry, most recently Life under Water (Bloodaxe, 2008) and has edited anthologies of verse and essays, amongst them The Honey Gatherers: Love Poems (Bloodaxe, 2003) and How Novelists Work (Seren, 2000). She has twice been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She teaches at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Landscape - present, remembered or imagined - has long been central to her work.
Maura Dooley has published several collections of poetry, most recently Life under Water (Bloodaxe, 2008) and has edited anthologies of verse and essays, amongst them The Honey Gatherers: Love Poems (Bloodaxe, 2003) and How Novelists Work (Seren, 2000). She has twice been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She teaches at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Landscape - present, remembered or imagined - has long been central to her work.