Selima Hill
Encyclopedia
Life
She read at Cambridge University. She was a Fellow at University of ExeterUniversity of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....
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She lives in Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a coastal town in West Dorset, England, situated 25 miles west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. The town lies in Lyme Bay, on the English Channel coast at the Dorset-Devon border...
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Awards
- 1986 Cholmondeley AwardCholmondeley AwardThe Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966...
- Arvon Poetry Prize
- Whitbread Poetry Award
- University of East Anglia Writing Fellowship
- Michael Marks Award for Pamphlet of the Year 2010
Works
- Jumping Over Trees: Poems from the Poetry Library, London (The Poetry Library and Royal Festival Hall Education, 2000)
- The Hat (Bloodaxe, 2008)
- Fruitcake (Bloodaxe, 2009)
- Advice On Wearing Animal Prints (Flarestack Poets, 2009)
Reviews
Selima Hill's 1984 collection Saying Hello at the Station introduced arguably the most distinctive truth teller to emerge in British poetry since Sylvia PlathSylvia PlathSylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...
. In the quarter-century since that debut, her voice has deepened and strengthened as its subject matter has widened from bereavement and life in a psychiatric unit to more general difficulties with men, family relationships, and the business of living. The simultaneous publication of Hill's new collection The Hat, and a Selected Poems, Gloria, is the perfect moment to rediscover this inimitably exhilarating poet.