Eagerly We Burn: Selected Poems 1980-2018 by Barry Hill Alison Brackenbury A knot undone at Loch

A knot undone at Loch Lomond snags over Glasgow

doubting its own certainties

familial poem sequences by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson)

he worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish

Eagerly We Burn: Selected Poems 1980-2018 by Barry Hill Alison Brackenbury A knot undone at LochBarry 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