"The scale and consistency of this volume, meticulously edited by Kenneth Haynes, and handsomely, if rather minutely, set out, with plenty og white space around poems and ajacket bearing an image from Kokoschka, give it a monumental air ... At the vital, latter end of the book there are huge achievements and intrictae exercises, experimental in their rigour. Hill's scraggy apple tree is indeed an emblem of his stupendous late-spring flowering."
--John Kerrigan, The Time Literary Supplement 08/08/14
"Broken Hierarchies possesses a magisterial intellectual sweep and sense of literary high ambition which is perhaps unique in contemporary English poetry."
--Terry Kelly, London Magazine 01/08/2014
"Hill has for 40-odd years kept his language as close-textured, tough, knotted and lyrical as poetry can be. If he makes old Eliot seem by comparison an easy read it is not for mere show; these poems are as beautiful, hard, compressed and granular as the rocks and stones and trees from which they are made."
--Fred Inglis, The Times Higher Education Supplement 19/12/2013
"If the phrase 'greatest living poet in the English language' has any meaning, then we should use it to describe Hill."
--Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian 20/11/2013
"He can rival the best."
--Jeremy Noel-Tod, The Sunday Times 08/12/2013
"our greatest post-war poet ... Now arrives the summation of his lifes work: Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012."
--Sameer Rahim, The Telegraph 14/12/2013
"The one certain genius now at work in the English Language"
--Alan Marshall, Sunday Telegraph 23/12/2013
"Anyone who reads Broken Hierarchies through will recognise that Hill is seriously good, and that he probably belongs among the great."
--Colin Burrow, London Review of Books 20/02/2014
"The greatest living English poet."
--Michael Dirda, Washington Post 23/12/2013
"By far the most distinguished exponent of his calling yet alive."
--A.N. Wilson, Daily Telegraph 23/12/2013
"Just a thousand pages of verse from perhaps our greatest living poet."
--Oxford Today 01/04/2014
"Our greatest living poet is a reminder to those in public life of the energy of intelligence created by the writing and criticism of poetry."
--Daniel Johnson, Standpoint 01/06/2014
"Recommended Summer Reading: Astonishing"
--Rachel Polonsky, Times Literary Supplement 13/06/2014
"These volumes include some of the finest, most astringent verse of the twentieth century ... nearly impeccable."
--Caleb Caldwell, Make Literary Magazine 29/07/14
