Jeff Hilson
Jeff Hilson (born 1966) is a British poet. 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.
Jeff Hilson
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- 1966
- Occupation
- poet
- Education
- Bedford School · Girton College
- Languages
- English
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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.
Jeff Hilson studied at Bedford School and Girton College. The recorded working language is English.
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- Jeff Hilson, The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (ed.) and Stretchers at Reality Street Editions
- Jeff Hilson, Bird Bird at West House Books
- Jeff Hilson, Bird Bird at Landfill Press
- Edmund Hardy, Review of Stretchers
- Piers Hugill, An overview of contemporary British poetry since 1977
- Stephen Thompson, 'The Forlorn Ear of Jeff Hilson', Complicities: British Poetry 1945-2007 ed. Robin Purves and Sam Ladkin (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007)
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