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Title: Women in Comfortable Shoes
Condition: New
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1780376677
EAN: 9781780376677
ISBN: 9781780376677
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Release Date: 22/06/2023
Description: Hot on the heels of her previous collection Men Who Feed Pigeons, Selima Hill's Women in Comfortable Shoes is her 21st book of poetry, presenting eleven contrasting but well-fitting sequences of short poems relating to women:Fishface: A disobedient young girl is sent to a Catholic convent school to give her mother a break.My Friend Weasel: The 50s. A girls' boarding school where the girls are somehow managing to make new friends.Susan and Me: On friendship. Two close friends, one of whom, Susan, is heading for a nervous breakdown.Dolly: Dolly is a duck. The other 29 women are, in their various ways, human.My Mother with a Beetle in Her Hair: A daughter's passion for swimming – despite of her mother hating every minute.Fridge: Lorries, geese and fridges speak of death, grief and absence.My Spanish Swimsuit: A daughter fears her rabbit-trapping father..The Chauffeur: A pair of bad-tempered sisters, a parrot and a cat.Girls without Hamsters: An older woman's obsession with a spider-legged young man.Reduced to a Quivering Jelly: Vera is old, and getting older, but she doesn't seem to care.Dressed and Sobbing: A woman is surprised to find herself getting older and lazier.The book is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 1380mm
Author: Selima Hill
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Year: 2023

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