Eagerly We Burn

<p>Barry Hill’s tenth book of poetry selects from his <em>Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud</em> which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize 2013 and described by John Kinsella as a ‘masterpiece’; <em>Grass Hut Work</em> (2016) his excursion into Hiroshima and Japanese poetry which Sam Hamill said was ‘beautiful and quietly powerful’;<em> Lines for Birds</em> (2011) his collaboration with the painter John Wolseley was acclaimed by Nathaniel Tarn as ‘a miraculous gift of a book’; <em>The Inland Sea </em>(2001) which David Malouf described as ‘a mixture of intense contemplation and powerful eroticism’; <em>Ghosting William Buckley</em> (1993) deemed by Barrett Reid a ‘major work’ of ‘stories thought and music’ from the encounter of a ‘wild white man’ and the indigenous people of the Australian frontier. This <em>Selected</em> also includes recent poetry—lyrical political and in memoriam.</p>