Bücher von Selima Hill

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 death, grief and absence; and Girls without Hamsters, which deals with an older woman's obsession with a spider-legged young man.Writing with her trademark wit and originality, Selima Hill looks closely at the complications and contradictions that define our lives and relationships.

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.

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 variations on her abiding themes: women's identities, love and loss, repression and abuse, family conflict and mental illness, men, animals and human civilisation.

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.