Broken Hierarchies brings together twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, offering a complete collection of his poetry from 1952-2012.

"Aside from reading, what truly kindled his imagination was seeing German bombers over Bromsgrove. “It was a strange metaphysical super reality,” he tells me. “Here were these peculiar, businesslike – sinisterly businesslike – winged things.” He pauses. “I can still remember the peculiar frisson of it. Strange as it sounds that incident – which can’t have lasted more than a minute and a half – has dictated for the rest of my life the way I have perceived certain juxtapositions of the real and the surreal. One is simultaneously terrified, appalled and curiously detached. Which is as good a description of a poem as I can think of.” Author interview from The Telegraph, 14 Dec, 2013