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Red Roses

Red Roses

by SelimaHill (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $3.25
Synopsis

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, Red Roses , which delves into territory her earlier books were only starting to uncover. The new book is orchestrated to read as one single movement fed by variations on a theme, with each rapid-fire poem blooming suddenly into the light. These are brave and disconcerting poems which don't wear a smile to impress or hide behind. Their bleak yet engaging humour isn't a ploy or a plea for sympathy but a facing up to truth. What they offer readers isn't uplifting sentiment but honesty to experience and a shared sense of recognition that denial or evasion will never heal a wound.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 72
 Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Published: 25 May 2006
ISBN 10: 1852247401
ISBN 13: 9781852247409

Media Reviews
'Wayward, funny, terrifying. Her writing scintillates with hatred, love and absurd insights' - gillian beer, Financial Times 'Every page reveals her unique ability to invert the world and shake it, until it reveals its truth' - kathleen jamie & maurice riordan, PBS Bulletin 'Hill is a unique voice in British poetry, handling central subjects with wit, great metaphorical beauty, and deep clarity. Her two most characteristic features, the off-the-wall images and no-holds-barred straight talk, work flaw-lessly together' - ruth padel & sean o'brien, PBS Bulletin 'Brilliant mischief' - Independent 'Selima Hill's world is strange, dream-like, secretive... delicate, moving and vaguely sinister' - carol ann duffy, Guardian
Author Bio
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.