ConsumedDavid Hill offers quirky perspectives on life, love, and globalization in his first book of poems to be published in the United States. A journalist whose normal beat is international economy and culture, Hill is known to readers of his poetry as, in the words of Light Quarterly (Chicago), "a polylingual perversely talented poet, [who] does devilishly contrived things with the language. He's raunchy, unsolemn, and very funny." "David Hill makes the everyday surreal-and writes unashamedly and delightfully about love. Imagine a shape-shifter, a spinner of yarns, a poet from Transylvania via the U.S. and leafy England, whose poems are small gothic tales of lost dogs, lovesick girls, royal houses gone to pot, celebrities in domestic situation comedies, vampires in the belfry, menopausal women and much more."--Rosemary Dun, founder and host, Big Mouth Poetry "Long an admirer, I had been prepared to be amused by David Hill's new collection of poems. I was not quite prepared for was how astonishingly good they are. He is also well on his way to becoming a major poet-perhaps the first for the era of globalization."-James Bowman, former American editor, the Times Literary Supplement David Hill has written for nonfiction books published by Blue Guides, Oxford Business Group, and the Stockholm Network-and contributed to news products from the Financial Times and Economist groups. As a poet, he is published in more than twenty anthologies. A debut collection was issued in 1999 by the U.K.'s National Poetry Foundation. |
