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