Eagerly We Burn: Selected Poems 1980-2018 by Barry Hill Alison Brackenbury Very Young in New York'

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doubting its own certainties

Eagerly We Burn: Selected Poems 1980-2018 by Barry Hill Alison Brackenbury Very Young in New York'Barry Hills tenth book of poetry selects from his Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, 2013, and described by John Kinsella as a masterpiece; Grass Hut Work (2016), his excursion into Hiroshima and Japanese poetry, which Sam Hamill said was beautiful and quietly powerful; Lines for Birds (2009) his collaboration with the painter John Wolseley, was acclaimed by Nathaniel Tarn as a miraculous gift of a