The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin by Geoffrey Hill review – the last judgments
Hill dishes out the thunderbolts in a demanding portrayal of a nation out of kilter
October 2016
Why television writing has become the new home of verbal complexity
Amit Chaudhuri
The high literary style of Woolf and Nabokov was long ago condemned as elitist and replaced by bland accessibility. But there is now a return to verbal complexity, not least in the unlikely medium of TV
July 2016
The Saturday poem
The Saturday poem: verses from Oraclau/Oracles by Geoffrey Hill
Remembering the poet, who died aged 84 last week
Geoffrey Hill: tributes to 'a poet of immense gifts'
Carol Ann Duffy, Andrew Motion and Christopher Ricks among peers and friends paying tribute to the author, who died suddenly on Thursday
Geoffrey Hill, 'one of the greatest English poets', dies aged 84
Famously difficult author acclaimed by former poet laureate Andrew Motion as a writer ‘of immense gifts and originality and authenticity’
May 2015
Wole Soyinka leads candidates for Oxford professor of poetry
Nigerian Nobel laureate receives strong support to win 300-year-old position, held in the past by writers from Matthew Arnold to Seamus Heaney
November 2013
Book of the week
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 by Geoffrey Hill – review
Nicholas Lezard hails the greatest living poet in the English language
November 2012
2012 in review
Christmas gifts 2012: the best poetry books
Adam Newey selects his favourite collections of the year
April 2012
Sixty years in poems
Carol Ann Duffy invites leading poets to recall a year in verse
January 2012
Carol Ann Duffy and Geoffrey Hill: truly poetic heavyweights
Lemn Sissay
Carol Ann Duffy is 'wrong' about poetry, says Geoffrey Hill
July 2011
Forward shortlist includes Geoffrey Hill, Sean O'Brien and David Harsent
John Burnside, Michael Longley and D Nurkse also in the running on all-male shortlist for £10,000 poetry prize
October 2010
Oraclau/Oracles by Geoffrey Hill – review
M Wynn Thomas follows Geoffrey Hill into rich new territory
June 2010
Books blog
Geoffrey Hill powers his way to a poetic pinnacle
Sean O'Brien: After the painful mess of last year's Oxford professor of poetry contest, this year's result is a relief
'A poet of great eminence': Geoffrey Hill's landslide victory restores prestige to Oxford professorship
Triumph of 78-year-old will help dispel memory of last year's scandal-hit contest
Geoffrey Hill wins Oxford Professor of Poetry election by landslide
'Greatest living poet in the English language', who celebrates his 78th birthday today, voted in ahead of nine other candidates
May 2010
Oxford poetry professor field narrows to final 11
After nominations close, frontrunner Geoffrey Hill goes up against 10 others
February 2010
Contest for Oxford poetry professor begins again
Geoffrey Hill and Anne Stevenson are among the names being suggested, as hunt for a successor to Ruth Padel begins
August 2008
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week
Geoffrey Hill's poetry may be 'difficult', but it's not hard to recognise its beauty
August 2007
Alive to the past
Peter McDonald rises to the poetic challenge of Geoffrey Hill's A Treatise of Civil Power.
