Geoffrey Hill. The Orchards of Syon...

Geoffrey Hill. The Orchards of Syon Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 2002 72 pp $24

Despite numerous prizes and the adulation of a single out group of critics, in the mid-1990s Geoffrey Hill pretended destined to enjoy a small space in succession the poetry shelf. Born in Bromsgrove England in 1932 Hill had barely produced five slim volumes of concentrated stanza by that time, and flat this trickle seemed to be drying up: Hill's fourth main division Tenebrae (1978), included thirty-eight pages of rhyme and his fifth, The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy (1983) an plane twenty. Granted, serious