Jeff Hilson

Jeff Hilson (born 1966) is a British poet. His works include A Grasses Primer (Form Books, 2000), Stretchers (Reality Street, 2006), Bird Bird (Landfill, 2009), and In The Assarts (Veer Books, 2010). He also edited The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, published in 2008. With Sean Bonney and David Miller he co-founded Crossing the Line, a reading series based in London.

Hilson is the son of British diplomat Malcolm Hilson OBE, and brother of the environmental lawyer Professor Christopher Hilson of the University of Reading. He was educated at Bedford School, where he was a boarder. He went to Girton College, Cambridge in 1985 to read English literature. He graduated in 1988 with a second class degree. He plays cricket for the Energy Exiles Cricket Club.

See also

• British Poetry Revival

Further reading

• Jeff Hilson, The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (ed.) and Stretchers at Reality Street Editions
• Jeff Hilson, Bird Bird at West House Books
• Jeff Hilson, Bird Bird at Landfill Press
• Edmund Hardy, Review of Stretchers
• Piers Hugill, An overview of contemporary British poetry since 1977
• Stephen Thompson, 'The Forlorn Ear of Jeff Hilson', Complicities: British Poetry 1945-2007 ed. Robin Purves and Sam Ladkin (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007)

External links

• Energy Exiles Cricket Club profile of Hilson
• Jeff Hilson's blog
• Five stretchers at Great Works
• One stretcher at Kate Murr's Press
• Excerpt from In the Assarts at onedit
• Excerpt from Bird Bird at onedit
• Excerpt from Bird Bird at Robert Sheppard's blog
• Excerpt from Bird Bird at PFS Post
• Archive of the Now
• Claire Jones, Review of Stretchers at OCT
• Ron Silliman, Review of The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (ed. Jeff Hilson)
• Jow Lindsay, Miscellany Note 23/10/05, Bad Press Serials 5.X
• Last Night at the Foundry