Hot pics of poets at home

The poet Geoffrey Hill, at home in Cambridge, 1984, with his then girlfriend, now wife, Alice Goodman and their cat Monica.

In photographer Judith Aronson’s new collection, Likenesses, the relationships between “sitters” is explored. Over the span of her 40-year career, Aronson photographed notable poets, academics and artists--including Geoffrey Hill, Anne Ridler, and Derek Walcott--in tandem with their loved ones and colleagues.

From the Financial Times:

“Aronson is married to an English literary critic, and many of her subjects were friends. Others required some persuasion before they would sit. Robert Lowell agreed to be photographed only if Aronson would cut his hair. Walcott and his partner Sigrid Nama needed tracking down in St Lucia. “Walcott had not been expecting me,” Aronson remembers. “Nevertheless, I was treated with the greatest hospitality, as if I were a dignitary. An hour before sundown on my last day there, Sigrid said, ‘Derek, we must let Judith photograph you before it gets dark and she leaves the island.’ And so he did.”