12 Pamphlets By Selima Hill

Fair Acre Press is issuing a dozen pamphlets by Selima Hill, a cult classic of the poetry world. The characteristically laconic titles include The Fly, Susan, and Men in Shorts. This “daughter of a mother / it’s too late / to say I’m sorry to / for being me” is now adventuring fiercely towards older age, a territory with black humour to match her own. Fantastical and readable, this extraordinary poetry is too often sidestepped as unclassifiable. We should relax, and admire its formal and emotional virtuosity.