Women in Comfortable Shoes by Selima Hill
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2023 Marvin Thompson An amulet in dark times

An amulet in dark times

and why fury against literature did not start or end on Nazis' pyres

combining old craftsmanship and daring innovation

Winner of the Guyana Prize

it matters what knots knot knots

Women in Comfortable Shoes by Selima Hill<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2023</b> Marvin Thompson An amulet in dark timesHot 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