{"product_id":"nocturne-in-chrome-sunset-yellow-9781844712625","title":"Nocturne in Chrome \u0026 Sunset Yellow","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this latest collection of poems, Hill invokes people and place, mythologizing and demythologizing city lives as they are led. From poignant vignettes and celebrations to urban-pastoral and elegy, these poems extend Hill’s romance with London’s psychic and surreal fabric. Selected as a Next Generation poet, Hill continues to delight us with sensuous observation and imaginative embrace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The closeup detail taken directly from nature, then skewed through 90° to give the reader something completely new, even unique ... with this third collection, Hill promises to be a real force in poetry, displaying an utterly contemporary understanding of how nature continues to work.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e – Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There is a \u003cem\u003efin de siècle\u003c\/em\u003e decadence about them ... not least in their brightly coloured diction, their luxuriant descriptiveness, their louche postures.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e – Poetry Wales\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Superb conjurations of place.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e – Adam Mars Jones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Compassionate and intelligent ... so full of action and interest and that brings alive such an array of people and places, that it is difficult to believe they sprang from the pen of one writer.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e – Rachel Cusk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn careful rhythms, the 21 poems of this British poet's fourth collection describe the “collision” of opposites that Londoners and other city dwellers live with daily: e.g., the city’s smell of “Peking duck and piss.” Repo-men and aging chess players, pigeons and Chinese supermarkets, sidewalk preachers and railway station bars all populate these neat stanzas.\u003c\/p\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Hill reveals to us in this vital, luminous collection is that 200 years later, collision is still the city's essential state. In a book-length love song to the fabulousness and ragged beauty of his native London, he considers the city through the lattice of physical and metaphorical dialectics – nature and manufacture, wealth and poverty, glamour and grime – that bring it to life. [...] It is rare to come across a collection of poetry that you know with certainty you will still be reading years from now, but for me, this is such a book.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Sarah Crown * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalt has a real winner in Tobias Hill’s \u003cem\u003eNocturne in Chrome \u0026amp; Sunset Yellow\u003c\/em\u003e . . . of your preference is for a poetry you share in, enter into imaginatively, then Hill is your man . . . bringing London to life sensuously, giving it a real cosmopolitan lived-in feel.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Matt Simpson * Stride Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTobias Hill’s new collection announces its arrival as one such London-loving book from the first poem, written in a historical fiction genre. You can't help cheering the lust for life. [...] in one striking poem, ‘Repossession’, there's a marrying of storytelling (or backstory telling) with Hill’s engaging conversational style. Surprisingly I think of Edward Thomas here. Like several of Thomas’s poems, this is a text about depopulation and the casual, almost intimate rhythm, is especially effective.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Richard Price * The Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the Diaries of Henry Morgan, Summer 1653\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRepossession\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo a Boy on the Underground\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Year in London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJanuary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFebruary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApril\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMay\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJune\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJuly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAugust\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeptember\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOctober\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNovember\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDecember\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTV Dinner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSynthesis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGravity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Gifts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Nightworkers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Orator\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmphibians\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lighthouse Keeper’s Cat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive Ways of Looking at my Grandfather\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Woman Who Likes Standing Under Trees in the Rain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNine in the Morning in the Station Bar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYellow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Bowl of Green Fruit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Wave\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHorse Chestnuts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummer Late Night Opening\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNocturne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742775116119,"sku":"9781844712625","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nocturne-in-chrome-sunset-yellow-9781844712625","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}