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Selima Hillwere Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Her most recent collections from Bloodaxe areThe Hat(2008);Fruitcake(2009);People Who Like Meatballs(2012), shortlisted for both the Forward Poetry Prize and the Costa Poetry Award;The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism(2014);Jutland(2015), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation which was shortlisted for the 2015 T.S. Eliot Prize and was earlier shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize;The Magnitude of My Sublime Existence(2016), shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize 2017;Splash like Jesus(2017);I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid(2019); andMen Who Feed Pigeons(2021), shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the 2021 T.S. Eliot Prize, and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022. Her 21st book of poetry,Women in Comfortable Shoes, is published by Bloodaxe in June 2023. Selima Hill has been named winner of The King's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2022. The award is being made on the basis of her body of work, with special recognition for her 2008 Bloodaxe Books retrospectiveGloria: Selected Poems.
'Wayward, funny, terrifying. Her writing scintillates with hatred, love and absurd insights.'- Gillian Beer, Financial Times 'Her adoption of surrealist techniques of shock, bizarre, juxtaposition and defamiliarisation work to subvert conventional notions of self and the feminine - Hill returns repeatedly to fragmented narratives, charting extreme experience with a dazzling excess.' - Deryn Rees-Jones, Modern Women Poets 'Every page reveals her unique ability to invert the world and shake it, until it reveals its truth.' - Kathleen Jamie & Maurice Riordan, PBS Bulletin 'Brilliant mischief' - Independent 'She is truly gifted. She invests mundane things with visionary, delirious brilliance.' - Graham Swift, Sunday Times '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 flawlessly together.' - Ruth Padel & Sean O'Brien, PBS Bulletin
