Book description
The virtuosity and high spirits of Sophie Hannah's poems are
unusual at any time of day. She handles rhymed metrical forms with
wily insouciance and passes the 'memorability test' with flying
colours. A surrealising impulse unsettles even the most tidy of her
stanzas with a shrewd imaginative wantonness. Her experiments with
subject-matter produce something more satisfying than 'social verse'.
An urban person who prefers shopping, eating and romance to hopping
over cowpats on a country walk, she writes with generous rather than
reductive wit.
Sophie Hannah was born in Manchester in 1971 and now lives in
Cambridge. She was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College,
Cambridge and a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She has published
four previous collections of poetry with Carcanet, a book of poems for
children, and six psychological crime novels with Hodder &
Stoughton. Sophie has won awards for her short stories and for her
poetry. In June 2004 she was chosen for the Next Generation poetry
promotion as one of the best twenty poets to emerge in the last ten
years.
