Jeff Hilson

 

Job Title: Senior Lecturer (Creative Writing) Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3637 Email Address: J.Hilson@roehampton.ac.uk

Poetry Books

Bird bird (Norwich: Landfill Press, 2009)

The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (ed.) (Hastings: Reality Street, 2008)

stretchers (Hastings: Reality Street, 2006)

Bird bird (pamphlet) (Sheffield: Westhouse Books, 2005)

stretchers 13-33 (London: Writers Forum, 2002)

stretchers 1-12 (London: Writers Forum, 2001)

a grasses primer (London: Form Books, 2000)

“...finally were false fruits” (London: Kater Murr’s Press, 1998)

Poetry in Magazines

Poems in Pilot special UK Poets edition (SUNY Buffalo: New York, 2007) and yt communications bulletin (May 2007).

Poems from "Bird bird":
onedit
(http://www.onedit.net/issue4/issue4.html)
Openned Anthology (http://www.openned.com/press/opennedcom/openned_anthology.php)
Poetry Salzburg Review (No. 12, Autumn 2007)
Skald (Issue 24, 2007)
PFS Post (October 2008)
forthcoming in Fire (2009)

Poems from "In the Assarts":
onedit
http://www.onedit.net/issue10/issue10.html)
Veer Away (2007)
Streetcake vol. 1 (2008)
Veer Off (2008)
forthcoming in Angel Exhaust (2009).

Articles about my work

Stephen Thomson (University of Reading), "The Forlorn Ear of Jeff Hilson" in Complicities: British Poetry 1945-2007 (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007). Article on my book stretchers.
Peter Barry (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), "Contemporary British Modernists" in Teaching Modernist Poetry, ed. Peter Middleton and Nicky Marsh (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2009). Article on my book stretchers alongside the writing of British poet Ken Edwards and US poet Carlyle Reedy.
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.

Conference and Symposia Papers

"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.

“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.

“Silent Performance”, 2001 Subvoicive Colloquium at Birkbeck College, London University.

Research Projects Undertaken