Jeff Hilson (born 1966) is a
British
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poet
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. 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
Sean Noel Bonney (21 May 1969 – 13 November 2019) was an English poet born in Brighton and brought up in the north of England. He lived in London and, from 2015 up until the time of his death, in Berlin. He was married to the poet Frances Kruk ...
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
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. He was educated at
Bedford School
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, where he was a boarder. He went to
Girton College, Cambridge
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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
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Further reading
Jeff Hilson, ''The Reality Street Book of Sonnets'' (ed.) and ''Stretchers'' at Reality Street EditionsJeff Hilson, ''Bird Bird'' at West House BooksJeff Hilson, ''Bird Bird'' at Landfill Press* 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 HilsonJeff Hilson's blogArchive of the Now*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080820181304/http://badpress.infinology.net/serials/badpress5-12.pdf Jow Lindsay, Miscellany Note 23/10/05, ''Bad Press Serials 5.X''Last Night at the Foundry
British poets
Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
1966 births
Living people
People educated at Bedford School
British male poets
20th-century British poets
21st-century British poets
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