Tobias Hill's first full-length collection, Year of the Dog, won an Eric Gregory award in 1995. Dominated by images and narratives from Hill's stay in Japan, as well as other tavel poems, the book contains Hill's celebrated sequence 'A Year in Japan', with its sweeping filmic narratives of the poets encounters in a distant and strange world. Hill's skills in depicting urban pastoral landscapes and human tableux are much in evidence. Now made availabe in a new edition, this hard to obtain work will delight fans and collectors alike.