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  • A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus

    by Selima Hill ...
    Selima 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 world at large.Self-portrait with a Bucket: On being an artist’s model.The Mathematician: A man and woman trying to agree.A Man, a Woman & a Chihuahua: Different people’s senses of bafflement with each ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Women in Comfortable Shoes

    by 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, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Men Who Feed Pigeons

    by Selima Hill ...
    Men Who Feed Pigeons brings together seven contrasting but complementary poem sequences by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson) relating to men and different kinds of women’s relationships with men. The Anaesthetist is about men at work; The Beautiful Man with the Unpronounceable Name is about someone else’s husband; Billy relates to friendship between a man and a woman; ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid

    by Selima Hill ...
    I May Be Stupid But I’m Not That Stupid brings together six contrasting but complementary poem sequences by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson) relating to family, fear, foreboding and felicity: Elective Mute is about autism and happiness; My Mother and Me on the Eve of the Chess Championships, about a mother who prefers lettuces to life; Fishtank (Poetry Book Society ... Read more

    $9.29 USD

  • The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism

    by Selima Hill ...
    The 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 connections and surprises, despite their contrasting concerns: sisters in Doormat (and being the object of someone else's jealousy), little girls in Happiness Is Just a Waste of Time, and married women in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • People Who Like Meatballs

    by Selima Hill ...
    Shortlisted for the 2012 Forward Poetry Prize. 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 Meatballs, is about a man's humiliation by a woman. Into my mother's snow-encrusted lap is about a dysfunctional mother-child relationship. Like all of Selima Hill ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Splash Like Jesus

    by Selima Hill ...
    Splash 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; Lobo-Lobo, about sisters; and Behold My Father on His Bicycle about just that. Like all of Selima Hill’s books, all three sequences chart ‘extreme experience with a dazzling excess’ (Deryn Rees-Jones), ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Jutland

    by Selima Hill ...
    Jutland brings together two contrasting poem sequences by 'this brilliant lyricist of human darkness' (Fiona Sampson), Advice on Wearing Animal Prints, winner of the Michael Marks Poetry Award, and Sunday Afternoons at the Gravel-pits. Like all of Selima Hill's work, both sequences chart 'extreme experience with a dazzling excess' (Deryn Rees-Jones), with startling humour and surprising ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Magnitude of My Sublime Existence

    by Selima Hill ...
    The 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, preferably underwater. Selima Hill's 17th book of poetry – her 14th from Bloodaxe – takes her back to the territory of her third book, The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness (1983), but this revisiting ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Standing Female Nude

    by Professor Carol Ann Duffy DBE ...
    Carol Ann Duffy's outstanding first collection, Standing Female Nude, introduced readers to all they would come to love about her poetry. From lovers to wives to war photographers, the poems it contains range from the delicately poignant to the fiercely political, exploring memory, gender, childhood and place. Within it are also some of her best-known poems, including 'Education for Leisure', as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Ha Ha Bonk Book

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    Laughter guaranteed with The Ha Ha Bonk Book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg - jam-packed with brilliant jokes to tell your dad, your mum, your baby brother, your teacher and anybody else you can think of, such as:What goes ha ha bonk?A man laughing his head off.andWhat goes 99 bonk?A centipede with a wooden legandWhat goes putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt?A bad g... ... Read more

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