Books by Barry Hill

Barry Hill's tenth book of poetry selects from most of his previous volumes, giving British and American readers a chance to catch up with work that has only previously appeared in Australia, and also includes recent poetry-lyrical, political and in memoriam.

Barry Hill's Grass Hut Work is, like Basho's Narrow Road to the Interior, both a travelogue of Japan and a journey inward, into what we'll call the Soul-for lack of a better word. He sees with fresh eyes the merger of history and presence, and presents us vital insight at every turn.

Naked Clay is an intimate response to the paintings of Lucian Freud - "the great amplifier of twentieth century figurative art"' as the critic Sebastian Smee has written. The poems are as urgent as the paintings, and taken together they constitute an essay on the ambiguous gifts from a painter of such mortal, material presences.