Wolf Intervals

“Wolf Intervals reveals an accomplished and interesting poet, impressive for the control and sinewy feel of his syntax and lineation. Poets often manage one or the other, but not the tandem that creates poetry’s truest structure, that certain architecture of language. Graham Hillard has a terrific facility for rhythmic shapes and versatile poetic forms. But maybe it is enough to say he writes smartly, with charm, with grace, with humor. I can’t help feeling this is an exceptional book, worthy of wide attention.”


—Dave Smith





“In these sharply crafted poems, Graham Hillard challenges the reader to examine how nature both blesses and infects the human soul. Fields and forests, orchards and cities, wolves and children: all are caught in the dance between humanity and the natural world. In Hillard’s poems, the elemental yearning to seek solace in memory is also of paramount importance. Thus, how well we can decode the messages of the past provides our best chance to walk into the future unburdened by fear.”


—Eleanor Lerman