Category Archives: Poetry

This is Jack Hibberd’s third volume of poetry (2004). “Hibberd has a professional’s skill, an amateur’s openness…I should say he is writing threnodies. That seems appropriate to the formality which he finds congenial, the grief at loss which pervades many of the poems, and … Continue reading →

This is Jack’s second volume of poetry (1998), the title being a quotation from Jonathan Swift, with a cover that enjoys a copy of a plate by George Grosz. “Jack Hibberd has produced a distinctly original and enjoyable collection of poems – … Continue reading →

This Jack’s first volume of poetry (1977), and consists of ‘versions’of poems by Baudelaire. They are my imaginative and poetic response to what I feel the poet is attempting. The Germans have a saying: ‘faithful translations are like boiled strawberries’. … Continue reading →