Aside from the Rod Steiger look - Mr. Hill deserves it I suppose

Aside from the Rod Steiger look - Mr. Hill deserves it I suppose

the Bromsgrove boy made good - though there are some

who have misunderstood his love of history and obscure

which puts him in the Robert Graves' class of know it all

but this is not quite the point, nor a good argument

for dismissing good old Geoffrey Hill as arrogant

some thrive on putting down a poet, who is mainstream

even though others think he is probably the future

whatever way you think, you can't say ill of Bromsgrove's

boy made good, it is not Kidderminster, and at least

the horse whisperer did not to my knowledge pen poetry,

but imagine, if Michael Ball, instead of going to Plymouth

College went to Oxford, maybe his lyrics would find themselves

in seminars discussed, and the net result sung on Eurovision

so we can be thankful, though Geoff Hill is bit of a codger

his poetry is still to par for a London Review or TLS submission?