Archive of the Now

Archive of the Now

Jeff Hilson

Jeff Hilson teaches Creative Writing at Roehampton University. Publications include A Grasses Primer (2000), stretchers: 1-12 (2001) and stretchers 13-33 (2002). stretchers vol. 3 and a collected stretchers are both forthcoming. He is currently writing a sequence of prose poems about British birds and gathering material for an anthology of experimental sonnets. He edits Canary Woof Press, the occasional magazine cul-de-qui and co-organises Crossing the Line, a reading series based in London.

Recordings

This reading was recorded by Tim Fletcher at Crossing the Line, London, in 2006.

'A Grasses Primer' (Form Books, 2000)

from stretchers (Reality Street Editions, 2006)

'once there had a little invader'

'I am a nurse the room my ward'

'do re mi in pup tents'

'smile your in candid trench'

'go litel guns of grief'

'dear sir there were these three dots'

'on the way to the cleve'

'and the two cousins they'

'this is part two licking it'

'hello and everything this'

'mounde life on the upp'

'I binger with my din friends'

'in all directions her'

from Bird bird (West House Books; Gargoyle Editions, 2005)

'Troglodytes troglodytes'

'Gallinago gallinago'

'Apus apus'

'Puffinus puffinus'

'Regulus regulus'

'Perdix perdix'

'Phoenicarus phoenicarus'

'Vanellus vanellus'

'Fingilla coelebs'

'Cygnus cygnus'

'Coccothraustes coccothraustes'

'Buteo buteo'

'Cinclus cinclus'

'Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax'

'Oenanthe oenanthe'

'Thymallus thymallus'

'Anser anser'