Assuming selima is required, and hill is required, the following 17 results were found.
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SELIMA HILL — ‘SUSAN’https://www.sphinxreview.co.uk/index.php/opoi-reviews-2022/selima-hill-susan
Susan, Selima Hill Fair Acre Press, 2022 £7. 50 Friends I found the cumulative impact of these poems intensely moving. They are such tiny creations, some only four lines long, but they carry huge emotional weight. The sequence focusses on a friendship...
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- Author: Nell
- Category: OPOI REVIEWS 2022
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The Elephant, Selima Hill Fair Acre Press, 2022 £7.50 Facts (in brackets) Although the poems in The Elephant present as ‘Facts’ — about everything from nostrils to sofas – they could be more accurately described as thoughts. Selima Hill is always...
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- Author: Charlotte
- Category: OPOI REVIEWS 2022
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The Night Nurse, Selima Hill Fair Acre Press, 2022 [publication date October] £7.50 The undesirability of desire Selima Hill’s poems get under my skin as if by witchcraft. I read the strange, brief poems in this pamphlet out loud in about twelve...
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- Author: Charlotte
- Category: OPOI REVIEWS 2022
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The Chauffeur, Selima Hill Fair Acre Press, 2022 £7.50 Magic-lantern show The first poem of Selima Hill’s pamphlet ‘The Chauffeur’ is called ‘Tiny Girls Singing Hymns’: why does no one dare to acknowledge that it is fear that forces us to sing? This...
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- Author: Charlotte
- Category: OPOI REVIEWS 2022
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My Mother with a Beetle in her Hair, Selima Hill Shoestring Press, 2020 — £6.00 Comedy and compassion told through swimming Selima Hill has produced an astonishing body of work, and this pamphlet slots into that bigger context. She often writes short,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Nell
- Category: OPOI Reviews 2021
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SELIMA HILL — ‘FRIDGE’https://www.sphinxreview.co.uk/index.php/opoi-reviews-2021/selima-hill-fridge
Fridge, Selima Hill Rialto, 2021 £6.00 Fridges with legs? A central theme of Fridge is suicide. But even with the darkest of ideas blowing through, there’s humour. And much of that comes through the strikingly odd juxtapositions. In the title poem...
- Type: Article
- Author: Nell
- Category: OPOI Reviews 2021
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SELIMA HILL — ‘DOLLY’https://www.sphinxreview.co.uk/index.php/opoi-reviews-2022/selima-hill-dolly
Dolly, Selima Hill Fair Acre Press, 2022 £7.50 In search of lovability In Dolly, as in so much of her work, Selima Hill tackles a fundamental question using humour and caricature. Throughout, a speaker seems to be on an undercover search for lovability...
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- Author: Charlotte
- Category: OPOI REVIEWS 2022
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Reduced to a Quivering Jelly, Selima Hill Fair Acre Press, 2022 [publication date November] £7.50 A life in snapshots Reduced to a Quivering Jelly comprises thirty-five snapshots or micro scenes, which come together to present the central protagonist,...
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- Author: Nell
- Category: OPOI REVIEWS 2022
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The House by the Sea, Selima Hill Fair Acre Press, 2022 [publication date July] £7.50 Connections Stones appear as a motif in three-quarters of the poems here — shifting in their exact import, but collectively representing a malevolent fate, one that...
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- Author: Nell
- Category: OPOI REVIEWS 2022
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Dressed and Sobbing, Selima Hill Fair Acre Press, 2022 £7.50 Supporting roles Why, I wondered as I read, do the non-human creatures in these poems only have supporting roles? In ‘Orange Juice’, for example, it is the dead of night and there are owls...
- Type: Article
- Author: Nell
- Category: OPOI REVIEWS 2022
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Fishface, Selima Hill Fair Acre Press, 2022 £7.50 How the little girl sees things The little girl of these poems sees the terror and absurdity of relationships (and dogs’ bottoms and depression and religion and all sorts) and gives it to us straight....
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- Author: Nell
- Category: OPOI REVIEWS 2022
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Men in Shorts, Selima Hill Fair Acre Press, 2022 £7.50 Vibes Men in Shorts reminds us of the connectedness between different human lives shown in brief physical encounters. Our verbal exchanges are influenced by what we see as a shared attribute. Our...
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- Author: Nell
- Category: OPOI REVIEWS 2022
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Selima Hillhttps://www.sphinxreview.co.uk/index.php/component/tags/tag/selima-hill
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- Author: Nell
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young at 25 as a poet, aren’t you? I’ll just ask Keats what he thinks.) Others of our winners include Mimi Khalvati, Selima Hill, Stephen Knight, Patrick McGuinness, Daljit Nagra and Kathryn Simmonds, all now with other presses. Some, like Mike Barlow...
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- Author: Sarah
- Category: Features and interviews
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for hygiene. I do think poetry can be transformative for everyone involved, however difficult the subject matter. Selima Hill, for instance, for me, takes pain, rejection, rage and somehow recasts them in such arresting imagery that the experience can...
- Type: Article
- Author: Sarah
- Category: Sphinx 2011
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poems. Much has been stripped away. Most are observational, direct, clear. On Edwards’ website there is a quotation from Selima Hill (quotation? endorsement?) that says: “tough, stubborn, intelligent, like knives”. Reading these poems it’s easy to see...
- Type: Article
- Author: Sarah
- Category: Sphinx 2013
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to set out universal, melancholy truths. In a manner reminiscent of Philip Larkin (whose ‘The Trees’ she quotes) and Selima Hill, Annie Fisher writes poems of outlandish comedy undercut by profound seriousness. The first five here address the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Charlotte
- Category: OPOI reviews 2020