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Robert Hilles

January 29, 2015

Robert Hilles lives in Nanaimo, BC and won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry for Cantos from A Small Room. His first novel, Raising of Voices, won the George Bugnet Award. He has published eighteen books of poetry, four works of fiction, and two nonfiction books. His latest poetry collection is From God’s Angle (published in 2021) and his latest novel is Don’t Hang Your Soul on That (also published in 2021). A book of flash fiction called Pink Puppet is forthcoming. He is currently working on a new novel and a book of poems.


Works by Robert Hilles

PoetryBook Reviews of Author

Poetry by Robert Hilles

Dark Sublime
By Robert Hilles
Published in Canadian Literature 250 (2022): 142-143.
Moral Shadow
By Robert Hilles
Published in Meanwhile, Home. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017): 81.
Stubbornness
By Robert Hilles
Published in Letters & Other Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 134 (Autumn 1992): 60-61.
Poetry poet interview
The Problem of Seeing (After a day at the beach)
By Robert Hilles
Published in Contemporary Drama. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 118 (Autumn 1988): 45-46.

Book Reviews of Robert Hilles's Works

A Gradual Ruin
By Robert Hilles
Reviewed in Of Note by Alison Calder
Raising of Voices
By Robert Hilles
Reviewed in Wisdom Systems by Craig W. McLuckie
Novel World War II
Outlasting the Landscape
By Robert Hilles
Reviewed in Open Room by Bert Almon
Poetry
An Angel in the Works
By Robert Hilles
Reviewed in Personality Speaking by Mark Madoff
Literary Theory Poetry
Look the Lovely Animal Speaks
By Robert Hilles
Reviewed in Separate Lenses by Ronald Hatch
Poetry