
The Magnitude of My Sublime Existence
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'Arguably the most distinctive truth teller to emerge in British poetry...Despite her thematic preoccupations, there's nothing conscientious or worthy about Hill's work. She is a flamboyant, exuberant writer who seems effortlessly to juggle her outrageous symbolic lexicon...using techniques of juxtaposition, interruption and symbolism to articulate narratives of the unconscious. Those narratives are the matter of universal, and universally recognisable, psychodrama...hers is a poetry of piercing emotional apprehension, lightly worn... So original that it has sometimes scared off critical scrutineers, her work must now, surely, be acknowledged as being of central importance in British poetry - not only for the courage of its subject matter but also for the lucid compression of its poetics' - Fiona Sampson, Guardian.
'Hill, more than any other English poet, cranks out angry, impotent, abused and richly surreal Britain. And she is very very funny...fresh, fierce and convincing... A mood-swinging voice, talking to itself rather than to the reader, shows how pain and joy transform the material world' - Claire Crowther, Poetry London.
'Her adoption of surrealist techniques of shock, bizarre, juxtaposition and defamiliarisation work to subvert conventional notions of self and the feminine... Hill returns repeatedly to fragmented narratives, charting extreme experience with a dazzling excess' - Deryn Rees-Jones, Modern Women Poets.
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- Intro
- Description
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Cup
- Car
- Lily
- My Fist
- Blossom
- My New Home
- Eel
- Dr J
- Torpor
- The Day-room
- Sleet
- The Word Zebra
- Shame
- Nurse P.
- Heaven
- Owls
- Linoleum
- Thousands of Miniature Dachshunds from All Over the World
- Doctor D.
- Treatment Day Afternoon
- Me and K.
- A Person with a Saw
- Wall
- Lounger
- The Woman with Long Black Hair
- Dr G.'s Ears
- B. and the Evangelist
- The Woman in the Bed Next to Mine
- Behind the Yellow Curtains
- The Villa
- Zebra
- Silver
- ECT
- The Singers
- Torpid Ewes
- The Heiress
- Women Look So Ugly When They're Bored
- Woman in a Nightdress
- Lettuces
- Boa
- Woman in a Blanket
- The Lounge
- The Letter E
- The End of the World
- What to Die of and What Not to Die of
- Blood Tests
- The Lady with the Trolley
- Sister's Favourite
- Lice
- African Violets
- Swallow
- A Visit from the Chaplain
- Are Dachshunds Ever White? Can Zebras Swim?
- Strange Hats
- Tranquillity
- Marmalade
- Useless Facts About Pigs
- Twenty Years Ago for One Tick
- Various New Tests
- Tomatoes
- What a Beetle Sounds Like When It's Old
- Swimming-pool
- Fruit-bowls
- Among the Jellyfish
- Biographical note
- Copyright
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