Book description
Sophie Hannah's first book The Hero and the Girl Next Door
(Carcanet, 1995), earned her a remarkably big audience: her broadcasts
and public readings throughout the country have proved extremely
popular. Her poems entertain with a cunning use of traditional form,
moving beyond satire to the heart of the modern matter: loves, lusts,
losses, worldly foibles, how people see themselves and how others see
them, the problems of learning to drive and learning to live with a
car. The Poetry Review declared, 'Shall I put it in capitals? SOPHIE
HANNAH IS A GENIUS.' Be that as it may, Hotels like Houses provides a
new range of romantic ironies, light and dark laughter, for her readership.
'Shall I put it in capitals? SOPHIE HANNAH IS A GENIUS.' - Poetry
Review 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.
