Tobias Hill
Tobias Hill
Tobias Hillis an award-winning British poet, essayist, writer of short stories and novelist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 March 1970
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At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.
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'War and Peas' by Michael Foreman, one of the great British children's illustrators. His watercolours are so lovely you could almost eat them, just as members of the target audience have been trying to do for decades.
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People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.
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Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel.
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If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.
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I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.
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Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.
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With a novel, there is no hurrying it. You're constantly walking into the unknown.
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My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point.
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The problem with themes is that writers don't realise they are themes until someone points them out.
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As a child, l was fascinated by gemstones in the way that small children are fascinated by dinosaurs or trains. Stones seem very physical and look like sweets. You can look at them microscopically and imagine things about them.