Jeff Hilson (born 1966) is a Britishpoet. 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.
Stephen Thompson, 'The Forlorn Ear of Jeff Hilson', Complicities: British Poetry 1945-2007 ed. Robin Purves and Sam Ladkin (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007)
External linksedit
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)
Last Night at the Foundry
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