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Tobias Hill's first full-length collection, Year of the Dog, won an Eric Gregory award in 1995. Dominated by images and narratives from Hill's stay in Japan, as well as other tavel poems, the book contains Hill's celebrated sequence 'A Year in Japan', with its sweeping filmic narratives of the poets encounters in a distant and strange world. Hill's skills in depicting urban pastoral landscapes and human tableux are much in evidence. Now made availabe in a new edition, this hard to obtain work will delight fans and collectors alike.
List of contents
- London Pastoral
- Close
- The Mosquito's Opposite
- Waiting
- In The Rooms Of The Plague House
- The Secret Of Burning Diamonds
- A Year In Japan:
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
- Snake Oil
- Night-Ride, Japan
- On The Island Of Pearls
- Today The House Is Full Of Dishcloths
- Rio In Carnival
- Dreaming Of Home
- Prelude
- From The Bullet Train
- On The Slow Mountain Train
- Green Tea Cooling
- Jael
- The Vampire's Price
- The Long Road To Silence
- The Barber's Daughter
- The Ritual Of Making
- Makondi Sculpture
About the author
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.”
Summary
Tobias Hill’s first full-length collection, Year of the Dog, won an Eric Gregory award in 1995. Dominated by images and narratives from Hill’s stay in Japan, as well as other tavel poems, the book contains Hill’s celebrated sequence ‘A Year in Japan’, with its sweeping filmic narratives of the poets encounters in a distant and strange world.
