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Senior Lecturer (Creative Writing) , Programme Convener (Creative Writing BA)

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3637
Email : J.Hilson@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : English and Creative Writing
Office location : Queen's Building 007

About

Poetry Readings & Performances:
ny poesiy, The Poetry Café, London (September 2010)
Crossing the Line, William IV, London (September 2010)
Desperate for Love, Kommedia Bar, Brighton (August 2010)
Freaklung Barry MacSweeney tribute, Mordern Tower, Newcastle (August 2010)
The Blue Bus, The Lamb, London (July 2010)
The Other Room, Manchester (July 2010)
1st Brighton Poetry Festival, University of Sussex, Brighton (April 2010)
ExXmas, Brixton Market, London (January 2010)
Diverse Deeds, Café Oto, Dalston, London (June 2009)
Desperate for Love, Kommedia Bar, Brighton (May 2009)
University of East Anglia, Norwich (May 2009 )
Luton B:Fest, Luton, Bedfordshire (May 2009)
Launch of Bird bird, Queen Mary, University of London (March 2009)
Runnymede International Festival, Royal Holloway, University of London (March 2009)
Launch of Reality Street Book of Sonnets, Roehampton University (November 2008)
Launch of Reality Street Book of Sonnets, Small Publishers Bookfair, Conway Hall: (October 2008)
The Blue Bus, The Lamb, London (April 2008)
The Calder Bookshop, London (October 2007)
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth (June 2007)
West End Lane Bookshop, West Hampstead, London (November 2006)
Red Gate Gallery, Brixton, London (May 2006)
Modernist Magazines Project Launch, Nottingham University London Centre (May 2006)
Esemplastic Tuesday, Royal College of Art, London (March 2006)
Crossing the Line, The Plough, Bloomsbury, London (March 2006)
Museum of Garden History, London (August 2005)
The Poetry Buzz: A Bus Ride with/and for Allen Fisher, London (July 2005)
5 Poets, Hammersmith Irish Centre, London (April 2005)
Cambridge Poetry Reading Series, Cambridge University, Cambridge (February 2005)
Into Words, curated by The Poetry Review, Whitechapel Gallery, London (October 2004)
Total Writing London, with violinist Susannah Ferrer, Camden People’s Theatre, London (October 2004)
3 Poets vs 3 Musicians, with violinist Matt Milton, College Bar, London (September 2004)
Esemplastic Tuesday, Royal College of Art, London (March 2004)
Camden People’s Theatre, London (March 2004)
Crossing the Line, The Poetry Café, London (February 2004)
Cambridge International Poetry Summit, Cambridge University (January 2004)
Esemplastic Tuesday, Royal College of Art, London (November 2003)
Torriano Readings, Torriano Meeting House, London (October 2003)
One hour interview and reading on Resonance 104.4 fm Radio’s Up for Air (June 2003)
The Klinker, The Sussex Arms, London (May 2003)
The Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry, Cambridge University (April 2003)
Camden People’s Theatre, London (February 2003)
The Klinker at The Sussex Arms, London (December 2002)
The Small Press Book Fair at The Voice Box, South Bank Centre, London (November 2002)
Esemplastic Tuesday, Royal College of Art, London (November 2002)
Dirty Microphone, Camden Head, London (August 2002)
Reading on Resonance 104.4 fm Radio, London (August 2002)
Bob’s Cabaret, London (July 2002)
Crossing the Line, The Poetry Café, London (December 2001)
Out of Bounds: A benefit reading for Médecins Sans Frontières, London (November 2001)
Subvoicive, The Betsy Trotwood, London (October 2000)

Articles about my work & Reviews

Articles:
Peter Jaeger (Roehampton University), "'I am Something Nonne:' Jeff Hilson's Nature Poetry" in Journal of Irish and British Innovative Poetry, vol. 2 no. 2 (September 2010)

Peter Barry (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), "Contemporary British Modernists" in Teaching Modernist Poetry, ed. Peter Middleton and Nicky Marsh (2010, New York: Palgrave Macmillan). Article on my book stretchers alongside the writing of British poet Ken Edwards and US poet Carlyle Reedy.

Stephen Thomson (University of Reading), "The Forlorn Ear of Jeff Hilson" in Complicities: British Poetry 1945-2007 (2007, Prague: Litteraria Pragensia). Article on my book stretchers.

Lacy Rumsey (University of Lyons)“Form before genre: 'free verse' and contemporary British poetry”, Etudes britanniques contemporaines, no. 26 (2004). Article on my chapbook a grasses primer alongside Barry MacSweeney and Simon Armitage.

Reviews:
Review of The Reality Street Book of Sonnets by Gilbert Adair:
Journal of Irish and British Innovative Poetry, vol. 2 no. 2 (September 2010).

Review of The Reality Street Book of Sonnets by Ron Silliman:
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/

Review by of The Reality Street Book of Sonnets by John Latta:
http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2009/02/jeff-hilsons-reality-street-book-of.html

Review of The Reality Street Book of Sonnets by Kevin Killian: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1KN0TE7OKUF34

Review of The Reality Street Book of Sonnets by Douglas Blasford:
http://www.unsplendid.com/2-1/2-1_basford_preface_frames.htm

Review of The Reality Street Book of Sonnets by Ian Seed:
http://shadowtrain.com/

Review of In the Assarts by Steven Waling:
http://www.handandstar.co.uk/?p=1077

Publications

AND no. 13 (April 2010)
Cannibal Spices (2010)
Argotist Online (October, 2009)
Angel Exhaust (2009)
Fire (issue 29, 2009)
Desperate for Love (March, 2009)
PFS Post (October 2008)
Streetcake (vol. 1, 2008)
Veer Away (2008)
Veer Off (2007)
onedit (issues 4 & 10) (http://www.onedit.net/)
Poetry Salzburg Review (No.12, Autumn 2007)
Skald (Issue 24, 2007),
"The Contemporary Sonnet: A Trialogue" (with Paul Muldoon & Meg Butler) in The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet, eds Peter Howarth & A.D. Cousins (forthcoming 2011, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
"Homophonic Translation" in Music and Translation ed Helen Minors (forthcoming 2011, Continuum: London)
"From A-Z and Bach Again": Getting a Handel on Louis Zukofsky's 'A'-24" in Golden Handcuffs Review (forthcoming 2010)
"From A-Z and Bach Again": Getting a Handel on Louis Zukofsky's 'A'-24" in Golden Handcuffs Review (forthcoming 2010)
"Why I wrote sretchers," The Radiator 3 (November 2005)
"'It Makes an Indebtedness': Louis Zukofsky Translating Catullus" in interstice no. 3 (autumn 1999)
In the Assarts (2010, London: Veer Books)
Bird bird (2009, Norwich: Landfill Press)
The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (ed.) (2008, Hastings: Reality Street)
stretchers (2006, Hastings: Reality Street)
Bird bird (pamphlet) (2005, Sheffield: Westhouse Books)
stretchers 13-33 (2002, London: Writers Forum)
stretchers 1-12 (2001, London: Writers Forum)
a grasses primer (2000, London: Form Books)
“...finally were false fruits” (1998, London: Kater Murr’s Press)
Pilot special UK Poets edition (2007, SUNY Buffalo: New York,)
The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (2008, Hastings: Reality Street)
yt communications bulletin (May 2007).
Openned Anthology (http://www.openned.com/press/opennedcom/openned_anthology.php)
"Poetic Form and Irresponsibility", post_moot, Miami University, Ohio, April 22-25, 2010.
Talk on my poetry at The Poetry and Poetics Research Group, Edge Hill University, April 23, 2009.
"A Brief History of Irregularity: AND and Writers Forum", Interaction, Symbiosis, Overlap: Little Magazines and Small Presses Symposium, Nottingham Trent University, March 7, 2009
"From A-Z and Bach Again: Getting a Handel on Louis Zukofsky's 'A'24", Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex, January 23, 2009
"Editing The Reality Street Book of Sonnets", contempo: Centre for Contemporary Poetry, Bangor University/Aberystwyth University, December 2, 2008
"Homoloinguistic Translation", Translating Words, Translating Worlds Symposium, Roehampton Festival, June 10, 2008.
"The Verb", BBC Radio 3, 21 May 2008. Discussion of The Reality Street Book of Sonnets.
"Up for Air", Resonance 104.4 FM, June 2003. Interview and Poetry reading.
“Magnitudes of Value: Louis Zukofsky, Hawthorne and the place of the artefact in the Index of American Design”, the Louis Zukofsky Centenary Conference, Columbia University, New York, September 2004.
Resonance 104.4 FM, August 2002. Poetry reading
“Silent Performance”, 2001 Subvoicive Colloquium at Birkbeck College, London University