Women in Comfortable Shoes

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By Selima Hill

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Women in Comfortable Shoes is Selima Hill's 21st poetry collection, following her acclaimed Men Who Feed Pigeons. The book features eleven sequences of sharp, short poems exploring the complexities of women's lives. From Fishface, about a rebellious girl sent to convent school, to Fridge, where inanimate objects evoke death and loss, and Girls without Hamsters, which captures an older woman's fixation on a young man, Hill employs her wit and originality to examine human relationships and contradictions.
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This book will appeal to readers who enjoy contemporary poetry that combines humour with emotional depth, especially those interested in women's experiences and innovative poetic forms.

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.

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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 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.

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The collection continues Hill's blend of surreal and direct poetry, notable for her trademark humour and striking wit. Critics praise her mastery of miniature portraits in verse, comparing her to "the UK's Emily Dickinson" and noting her ability to give weight to both light and profound themes. Her unique, funny, and sometimes unsettling voice marks her as an original poet highly regarded by literary judges and reviewers alike.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780376677

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Edition: Paperback original

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 1380.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Selima Hill

About the Author

Selima Hill was awarded the King's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2022, with special recognition given to Gloria: Selected Poems (2008). This draws on collections from 1984 to 2006 and includes Violet (1997), which was shortlisted for all three of the UK's major poetry prizes, the Forward Prize, T.S. Eliot Prize and Whitbread Poetry Award, and Bunny (2001), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and was also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her most recent Bloodaxe collections areMen Who Feed Pigeons (2021), shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize; and Women in Comfortable Shoes (2023).