Background
Selima Hill grew up in rural England and Wales.
Selima Hill grew up in rural England and Wales.
University of Cambridge.
She read Moral Sciences at New Hall, Cambridge University (1965-1967). She regularly collaborates with artists and has worked on multimedia projects with the Royal Ballet, Welsh National Opera and British Broadcasting Corporation Bristol. She is a tutor at the Poetry School in London, and has taught creative writing in hospitals and prisons.
A selected poems: Gloria, was published in 2008.
She was a Fellow at University of Exeter. Selima Hill lives in Lyme Regis.
Her most recent book of poetry is People Who Like Meatballs (2012), shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year). 1986 Cholmondeley Award Selima Hill"s 1984 collection Saying Hello at the Station introduced arguably the most distinctive truth teller to emerge in British poetry since Sylvia Plath.
In the quarter-century since that debut, her voice has deepened and strengthened as its subject matter has widened from bereavement and life in a psychiatric unit to more general difficulties with men, family relationships, and the business of living.
The simultaneous publication of Hill"s new collection The Hat, and a Selected Poems, Gloria, is the perfect moment to rediscover this inimitably exhilarating poet.