Winter can be savoured in poetry
Blackburn mixes fragments from her own life with a series of eighteen ‘songs’ and all sorts of stories about the places and the people she meets in her quest to get closer to an understanding of Doggerland
Eliot Prize
Jon Silkin and Anne Stevenson
Those narratives are the matter of universal
Gloria by Selima Hill #Translatedpoetry Winter can be savoured inWinner of The King's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2022 Selima Hills poetry has been called wanton, wildly imaginative, tender, intelligent, dangerous, defiant, subversive and startling. All these qualities are strongly present throughout Gloria, a comprehensive selection drawn from ten formally diverse and thematically unified collections, each offering wild variations on her abiding themes: womens identities, love and loss, repression and abuse, family