Midnight in the City of Clocks (The ^AOxford Poets)

ISBN: 019283245X

Author: Hill, Tobias

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Product Description Midnight in the City of Clocks is the first full collection of poetry from this talented young writer born in 1970 and already well ensconced in the literary world. This lively collection is a study of life in various cities: London, from hangover to Underground; Hiroshima, at noon andmidnight; and the "City of Clocks," a fusion of cities and ages as the millennium countdown approaches. Written over the last five years, the poems fall into two parts: "Transit," which includes poems of travel and living abroad (particularly in Japan, where Hill spent two years); and "Back to theCity," urban, mostly London poems, crammed with a young man's curiosity and eye for detail and story-telling. Review `an impressively controlled first collection ... As Hill develops less distanced sensibility to go with his undoubted technique, he could prove to be very interesting.' Robert Potts, The Guardian`he has developed an austerely sensual technique ... As a first collection, this is talented and interesting.' Times Literary Supplement From the Back Cover This lively collection from a young, much traveled, writer falls into two parts. 'Transit' includes poems of travel and transport, especially in Japan, where Tobias hill lived for two years. 'Back to the City' is about London, from hangover to Underground; Hiroshima; and the 'City of Clocks, ' a fusion of cities and ages. About the Author Tobias Hill, a poet and writer, is the literary editor of Don't Tell It style magazine, associate editor of Trafika International Review, and poetry editor of The Richmond Review, Britain's premier Internet literary magazine.