Covers Selima Hill's books from "Saying Hello at the Station" (1984) to "Red Roses" (2006), and "The Hat" (2008). This book is a selection drawn from ten collections, each offering... Læs mere
A portrayal of a woman's struggle to regain her identity. It 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.
Brings together four poem sequences about motherhood. This book explores love and having a mother. It shows the impact of Asperger's syndrome on both mother and child.
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.
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 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.
Three contrasting but complementary, familial poem sequences by the TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet: Buttercup the Sloth, about mothers; Lobo-Lobo, about sisters; and Behold My Father on His Bicycle, about exactly that.
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. It was shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize.
Known for her surreal, disturbing, uncomfortably humorous poems, Selima Hill is one of Britain’s leading poets. Her Forward-shortlisted 20th collection brings together seven sequences of short poems relating to men and to women’s relationships with men.
Hot on the heels of her previous collection Men Who Feed Pigeons, Selima Hill's Women in Comfortable Shoes is her 21st book of poetry, presenting eleven contrasting but well-fitting sequences of short poems relating to women. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Selima Hill’s twenty-second collection A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus presents ten sequences of short poems, prose poems and short pieces on relationships and doings between people, animals and the world at large.