Book description
Best-selling poet Sophie Hannah returns with a wonderful collection
of poems that explore and celebrate strong feelings: love, hate,
anger, hope - and which strip away the veils of hypocrisy and pretence
from all aspects of everyday life. From relationships to the world of
work, motherhood and marriage, Sophie Hannah tells it how it is in her
own inimitable style. Funny and moving, these poems combine
traditional form and rhyme with a contemporary take on modern life
that simultaneously raises a smile and provides thoughts to linger
over. This collection also include A Woman's Life and Loves, eight
poems set to music by the composer Gabriel Jackson that form a song
cycle originally concieved as a contemporary and feminist response to
the Schumann song cycle. Sophie Hannah's first book was greeted with
amazement. The Poetry Review declared, 'Shall I put it in capitals?
SOPHIE HANNAH IS A GENIUS.' Each subsequent collection has been
formally more inventive, thematically more complex, yet each has met
with a similar welcome, and she has become that rare thing, a popular
and best-selling poet.
'Sophie Hannah is a poet of considerable skill...A shrewd and
accurate observer of the world around her, and of her own life, she is
often very funny.' - Wendy Cope 'Sophie Hannah is one of my favourite
young poets...she writes pithy, witty, poignant poems about love and
relationships.' - Daisy Goodwin Sophie Hannah was born in Manchester
in 1971 and now lives in West Yorkshire. 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 two psychological crime
novels, Little Face in 2006 and Hurting Distance in 2007, both 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.
