Men Who Feed Pigeons

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Known for her surreal, disturbing, uncomfortably humorous poems, Selima Hill is one of Britain’s leading poets. Her Forward-shortlisted 20th collection brings together seven sequences of short poems relating to men and to women’s relationships with men.

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Men Who Feed Pigeons brings together seven contrasting but complementary poem sequences by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson) relating to men and different kinds of women’s relationships with men. The Anaesthetist is about men at work; The Beautiful Man with the Unpronounceable Name is about someone else’s husband; Billy relates to friendship between a man and a woman; Biro is about living next door to a mysterious uncle; The Man in the Quilted Dressing-gown portrays a very particular old man; Ornamental Lakes as Seen from Trains is about a woman and a man she’s afraid of; while Shoebill is another sequence about a woman and a man, but quite different from the others. Like all of Selima Hill’s work, all seven sequences in this book chart ‘extreme experience with a dazzling excess’ (Deryn Rees-Jones), with startling humour and surprising combinations of homely and outlandish. Shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Collection.

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Weight 258 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.8 × 1.4 cm
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Publisher

Bloodaxe Books

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Cover

Paperback

Pages

157

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K