The Hero and the Girl Next Door [Paperback]

Sophie Hannah (Author)

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Paperback: 64 pages
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd. (Aug 1 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1857541138
ISBN-13: 978-1857541137
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.2 x 0.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 100 g

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The virtuosity and high spirits of Sophie Hannah's poems are unusual at any time of day. She handles rhymed metrical forms with wily insouciance and passes the 'memorability test' with flying colors. What seems simple or simply achieved more often than not on closer inspection yields subtleties of feeling and form. A surrealising impulse unsettles even the most tidy of her stanzas with a shrewd imaginative wantonness. Her experiments with subject-matter produce something more satisfying than 'social verse'. An urban person who prefers shopping, eating and romance to hopping over cowpats on a country walk, she writes with generous rather than reductive wit.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just fantastic!, Oct 28 1999

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This review is from: The Hero and the Girl Next Door (Paperback)

Clever and articulate, always following traditional rhyming schemes, but the words and language is always post-modern, witty and realistic. With subjects as diverse as animal rights and political correctness through to love and one-night stands, this is classic poetry with a modern edge. Buy it - you can't not love it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the depths of Cambridge, May 21 1999

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This review is from: The Hero and the Girl Next Door (Paperback)

Sophie Hannah's poetry is wonderful. Buy it! Uplifting, funny, touching; all of these things. Don't miss it.

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