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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Forward Prize and Rathbones Folio Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303282749813,"sku":"9781780375861","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780375861_b18fcb2e-30bc-4432-ae02-092bb5384afc.jpg?v=1786025035"},{"product_id":"9781780371917","title":"I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid","description":"I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid brings together six contrasting but complementary poem sequences by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson) relating to family, fear, foreboding and felicity. Elective Mute is about autism and happiness; My Mother and Me on the Eve of the Chess Championships, about a mother who prefers lettuces to life; Fishtank (Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice), about a brother who is somebody else; Lambchop, about a creepy old man; The Boxer Klitschko, on finding refuge with swimming, dogs and a jovial uncle; and Helpless with Laughter, on what the parts of the body have to say about themselves. 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