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The Hat by Selima Hill
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $8.23Selima Hill's "The Hat" is a disturbing portrayal of a woman's struggle to regain her identity. Her story emerges through a series of short poems, often related to animals: how she is preyed upon and... -
Fruitcake Selima Hill 9781852248482
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89"Fruitcake" brings together four poem sequences about motherhood by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson). "Bougainvillae" explores love and having a mother. "Nylon" is about... -
A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus Selima Hill 9781780377520
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $13.24Selima 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... -
The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism Selima Hill 9781780371030
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism brings together three seemingly unrelated poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson). The poems in each spark off unexpected... -
Splash Like Jesus Selima Hill 9781780373492
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58Splash like Jesus brings together three contrasting but complementary, familial poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson), Buttercup the Sloth, about mothers;... -
Gloria: Selected Poems Selima Hill 9781852248055
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50Selima Hill's poetry has been called wanton, wildly imaginative, tender, intelligent, dangerous, defiant, subversive and startling. All these qualities are strongly present throughout "Gloria", a... -
People Who Like Meatballs Selima Hill 9781852249458
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89"People Who Like Meatballs" brings together two contrasting poem sequences about rejection by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson). The title-sequence, "People Who Like... -
My Mother with a Beetle in her Hair by Selima Hill
RRP: $8.04Booksplease Price: $7.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912524723Author Selima HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint -
The Magnitude of My Sublime Existence by 9781780373058
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89The Magnitude of My Sublime Existence is the account of a young woman's stay in the psychiatric ward of a large hospital. The only time she feels safe is when swimming; the only place, the sea,... -
The Virago Book Of Love Poetry by Wendy Mulford 9781860494352 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $2.56For centuries women have written about love with passion, humour, frustration and despair; but never before have their voices come together as in this exhilarating and timeless compendium. Here are... -
Poetry Rebellion: Poems and prose to stir the soul by Paul Evans
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.20'Galvanises us to notice and care about our glorious natural world, through the words of an army of poets, ancient and modern' - Bel Mooney An anthology of poems to enter the bloodstream and rewild... -
Tell Me This is Normal: New & Selected Poems by Julie O'Callaghan 9781852247904
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $9.06"Tell Me This Is Normal" is a generous selection of Julie O'Callaghan's poetry, ranging from the "Edible Anecdotes" her readers gorged on in the 1980s to her later work confronting a very 'scary'... -
Bedtime Clare Pollard 9781852245931
RRP: $9.31Booksplease Price: $7.40Clare Pollard wrote her first book The Heavy-Petting Zoo while still at school. Its sequel is Bedtime: a setting for intimacy and tenderness as well as cruelty and pretence, where reality and fantasy... -
Heavy Petting Zoo Clare Pollard 9781852244811
RRP: $9.31Booksplease Price: $7.40Clare Pollard wrote most of these poems while still at school in Bolton. Too young, perhaps, to expect anyone to take her seriously, but young enough to question that assumption and much else besides... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $14.67This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies - with their vast lists of poets summoned... -
Strong Words W. N. Herbert 9781852245153
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience been so numerous and engaged. Strong words? Not if the poets are right. As Ezra Pound wrote: 'You would think anyone wanting to...