Women in Comfortable Shoes by Selima Hill
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2023 James Harpur Evgeny Vinokurov

Evgeny Vinokurov

the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

The resulting anthology is an eclectic and catholic mix of fine poetry and fine translation that opens a window on to a relatively neglected group of literary worlds

the atrocities of American empire and consumerism

Women in Comfortable Shoes by Selima Hill<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2023</b> James Harpur Evgeny VinokurovHot on the heels of her previous collection Men Who Feed Pigeons, Selima Hill's Women in Comfortable Shoes is her 21st book of poetry, presenting eleven contrasting but well fitting sequences of short poems relating to women: Fishface: A disobedient young girl is sent to a Catholic convent school to give her mother a break. My Friend Weasel: The 50s. A girls' boarding school where the girls are somehow managing to make new friends. Susan and Me: On