Eagerly We Burn: Selected Poems 1980-2018 by Barry Hill Gillian Allnutt In preparing this volume

In preparing this volume

Addendum to a Miracle

and an interest in the fictional and dangerous shaping of history

The world has gone

some are afraid of doing nothing

Eagerly We Burn: Selected Poems 1980-2018 by Barry Hill Gillian Allnutt In preparing this volumeBarry 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