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Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow Tobias Hill

Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow By Tobias Hill

Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow by Tobias Hill


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A collection of poems that invokes people and place, mythologizing and demythologizing city lives as they are led.

Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow Summary

Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow by Tobias Hill

In this latest collection of poems, Hill invokes people and place, mythologizing and demythologizing city lives as they are led. From poignant vignettes and celebrations to urban-pastoral and elegy, these poems extend Hills romance with Londons psychic and surreal fabric. Selected as a Next Generation poet, Hill continues to delight us with sensuous observation and imaginative embrace.

Hills special territory, in poetry and prose, is the `urban-pastoral ... his native North London is transformed, with many deftly dark touches, into an uneasy realm of the imagination. Hill clearly appreciated Simon Armitages storytelling persona; he also drew upon observation of the natural world in ways associated with Ted Hughes. Much of his imagery is by turns delicately `Japanese, or reminiscent of the heyday of Craig Raines `Martian style. Hill has a romantic dimension in his work that is all his own. As a young man with an intense curiosity about the world, his work is full of sensual images, vignettes of city life and romance ... these are poems of flirtation and desire.

contemporarywriters.co.uk

The closeup detail taken directly from nature, then skewed through 90 to give the reader something completely new, even unique ... with this third collection, Hill promises to be a real force in poetry, displaying an utterly contemporary understanding of how nature continues to work.

Poetry Review

There is a fin de siecle decadence about them ... not least in their brightly coloured diction, their luxuriant descriptiveness, their louche postures.

Poetry Wales

Superb conjurations of place.

Adam Mars Jones

Compassionate and intelligent ... so full of action and interest and that brings alive such an array of people and places, that it is difficult to believe they sprang from the pen of one writer.

Rachel Cusk

Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow Reviews

In careful rhythms, the 21 poems of this British poet's fourth collection describe the collision of opposites that Londoners and other city dwellers live with daily: e.g., the citys smell of Peking duck and piss. Repo-men and aging chess players, pigeons and Chinese supermarkets, sidewalk preachers and railway station bars all populate these neat stanzas. While echoing Larkin in his desire to look unflinchingly, Hill is ultimately more optimistic about the human condition. Many poems insist on some kind of sweetness, even a lost one, as in the penultimate section of A Year in London, a poem with a section for each month; after suggesting bombs falling, the poem ends with fireworks: [a]nd all that brilliance was ours / in our dreams that night. Hill also sounds at times like Frost, another polestar for plainspoken poets: describing a young couple fixing up an abandoned house, he writes, [a]ll this was years ago. And now youre here, / the two of you scything the bittersweet. Occasionally, what Hill (Zoo, 1998) encounters in the contemporary world is so awful that only silence or disbelief are appropriate: [t]he death toll mounts every morning. / It grows unspeakable.

* Publishers Weekly *

What Hill reveals to us in this vital, luminous collection is that 200 years later, collision is still the city's essential state. In a book-length love song to the fabulousness and ragged beauty of his native London, he considers the city through the lattice of physical and metaphorical dialectics nature and manufacture, wealth and poverty, glamour and grime that bring it to life. [...] It is rare to come across a collection of poetry that you know with certainty you will still be reading years from now, but for me, this is such a book.

-- Sarah Crown * The Guardian *

Salt has a real winner in Tobias Hills Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow . . . of your preference is for a poetry you share in, enter into imaginatively, then Hill is your man . . . bringing London to life sensuously, giving it a real cosmopolitan lived-in feel.

-- Matt Simpson * Stride Magazine *

Tobias Hills new collection announces its arrival as one such London-loving book from the first poem, written in a historical fiction genre. You can't help cheering the lust for life. [...] in one striking poem, `Repossession, there's a marrying of storytelling (or backstory telling) with Hills engaging conversational style. Surprisingly I think of Edward Thomas here. Like several of Thomass poems, this is a text about depopulation and the casual, almost intimate rhythm, is especially effective.

-- Richard Price * The Scotsman *

About Tobias Hill

Selected as one of the countrys 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 is 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.

Table of Contents

From the Diaries of Henry Morgan, Summer 1653

Repossession

To a Boy on the Underground

A Year in London

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

TV Dinner

Synthesis

Gravity

The Gifts

The Nightworkers

The Orator

Amphibians

The Lighthouse Keepers Cat

Five Ways of Looking at my Grandfather

The Woman Who Likes Standing Under Trees in the Rain

Nine in the Morning in the Station Bar

Yellow

A Bowl of Green Fruit

The Wave

Horse Chestnuts

Summer Late Night Opening

Nocturne

Additional information

GOR004769965
9781844714254
184471425X
Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow by Tobias Hill
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Salt Publishing
2007-11-11
80
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