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Red Roses - Softcover

Hill, Selima

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9781852247409: Red Roses

Synopsis

Selima Hill's new collection covers new territory for the author who has been called wanton, wildly imaginative, tender, intelligent, dangerous, defiant, subversive, and startling.

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About the Author

selima hill won first prize in the Arvon/ Observer International Poetry Competition with part of The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness, from Trembling Hearts in the Bodies of Dogs: New & Selected Poems (1994). Her other Bloodaxe poetry titles are A Little Book of Meat (1993), Violet (1997), Bunny (2001), Portrait of My Lover as a Horse (2002) and Lou-Lou (2004). Violet was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for all three of the UK's major poetry prizes, the Forward Prize, T.S. Eliot Prize and Whitbread Poetry Award. Bunny won the Whitbread Poetry Award, was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Lou-Lou was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Selima Hill lives in Dorset.

Review

"This narrator...is compellingly readable."

"Reading them is akin to visiting a fun house where the figures become menacingly alive."

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