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Hot on the heels of her previous collection Men Who Feed Pigeons, Selima Hill's Women in Comfortable Shoes is the 21st book of poetry from "the UK's Emily Dickinson". This collection presents eleven contrasting but well-fitting sequences of short poems relating to women, including: Fishface, in which a disobedient young girl is sent to a Catholic convent school to give her mother a break, Fridge, in which trucks, geese and fridges speak of dea...

Men Who Feed Pigeons brings together seven contrasting but complementary poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson) relating to men and different kinds of women's relationships with men. The Anaesthetist is about men at work, The Beautiful Man with the Unpronounceable Name is about someone else's husband, Billy relates to friendship between a man and a woman, Biro is about living next door to a mysterious unc...

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I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid is Selima Hill's 19th book of poetry and features six contrasting but complementary poem sequences: about family, fear, abuse and autism, and finding refuge with swimming, dogs and a jovial uncle.

The 18th book of poetry from the award-winning poet, including three familial poem sequences.

Selima Hill is one of Britain's leading poets, the winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award (the forerunner of the Costa). People Who Like Meatballs is her 14th book of poetry - her 11th from Bloodaxe.

Selima Hill's poetry has been called wanton, wildly imaginative, tender, intelligent, dangerous, defiant, subversive, and startling. All these qualities are strongly present throughout Gloria, a comprehensive selection drawn from ten formally diverse and thematically unified collections, each offering wild variations on her abiding themes, women's identities, love and loss, repression and abuse, family conflict and mental illness, men, animals...

Selima Hill is one of Britain's leading poets, the winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award (the forerunner of the Costa). The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism is her 15th book of poetry - her 12th from Bloodaxe - and comprises three sequences.

This volume of poetry provides a collection of the latest work from Selima Hill. Other works by Hill include 'Bunny' and 'Portrait Of My Lover As A Horse'.

Selima Hill's latest collection, The Hat, is a disturbing portrayal of a woman's struggle to regain her identity. Her story emerges through a series of short poems, often related to animals: how she is preyed upon and betrayed, misunderstood, compromised and not allowed to be herself. The Hat charts extreme experience with dazzling excess, with dark humor and surprising combinations of homely and outlandish.

Two sequences of of poems on forgiveness combined in a collection which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Hill is one of Britain's leading poets and previously won the Whitbread Poetry Award.

Selima Hill's 17th book of poetry - her 14th from Bloodaxe - is the account of a young woman's stay in the psychiatric ward of a large hospital.

Selima Hill's poetry has been called wanton, wildly imaginative, tender, intelligent, dangerous, defiant, subversive, and startling. All these qualities are strongly present in her latest collection which delves into territory her earlier books only started to uncover. The new book reads as one single movement fed by variations on a theme, with each rapid-fire poem blooming suddenly. Of Selima Hill's other works:

Fruitcake brings together four poem sequences about motherhood. "Bougainvillea" explores love and having a mother. "Nylon" is about happiness, and not having or being a mother. Then "Bunker Sacks" brings grace but also the shock of being a young mother. Finally, "Grunter" shows the impact of Asperger's syndrome on both mother and child. Like all of Selima Hill's poetry, Fruitcake is filled with startling humor and surprising combinations of th...

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