5%OFF
Jutland
Selima Hill
€ 13.00
€ 12.32
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Jutland
Paperback. Two sequences of of poems on forgiveness by the Costa and Forward Prize shortlisted poet. Hill is one of Britain's leading poets and previously won the Whitbread Poetry Award. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, 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 combinations of homely and outlandish. Jutland poses questions about forgiveness,'but the answers, / like Valentines, are never enough', as she writes in 'Wolverine': 'And can't he understand / I'm trying to love him but I don't know how? ... Read more
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, 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 combinations of homely and outlandish. Jutland poses questions about forgiveness,'but the answers, / like Valentines, are never enough', as she writes in 'Wolverine': 'And can't he understand / I'm trying to love him but I don't know how? ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780371498
SKU
V9781780371498
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Selima Hill
Selima Hill grew up in a family of painters in farms in England and Wales, and has lived in Dorset for the past 35 years. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1986, and was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Exeter University in 2003-06. She won first prize in the Arvon International Poetry Competition with part of The Accumulation of ... Read more
Reviews for Jutland
'Arguably the most distinctive truth teller to emerge in British poetry - She is a flamboyant, exuberant writer who seems effortlessly to juggle her outrageous symbolic lexicon - hers is a poetry of piercing emotional apprehension, lightly worn - So original that it has sometimes scared off critical scrutineers, her work must now, surely, be acknowledged as being of central ... Read more