Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (
Ludo,
Expostulations on the Volcano,
Liber Illustrium Virorum, and
Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have never before appeared in print, and three of them (
Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres,
Pindarics, and
Clavics) have been greatly revised and expanded.