Midnight in the City of Clocks (The ^AOxford Poets)

Midnight in the City of Clocks is the first full collection of poetry from this talented young writer born in 1970 and already well ensconced in the literary world. This lively collection is a study of life in various cities: London, from hangover to Underground; Hiroshima, at noon and midnight; and the "City of Clocks," a fusion of cities and ages as the millennium countdown approaches. Written over the last five years, the poems fall into two parts: "Transit," which includes poems of travel and living abroad (particularly in Japan, where Hill spent two years); and "Back to the City," urban, mostly London poems, crammed with a young man's curiosity and eye for detail and story-telling.