The Hero and the Girl Next Door
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1857541138
ISBN-13
9781857541137
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 16th, 1996
Print length
64 Pages
Weight
94 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.80 x 0.40 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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A collection of high-spirited poems. The poet considers herself a city person who prefers shopping, eating and romance to hopping over cowpats on a country walk.
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. What seems simple or simply achieved more often than not on closer inspection yields subtleties of feeling and form. 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.
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