The Hero and the Girl Next Door

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.

ISBN	1857541138	DEWEY edition	DC20
ISBN13	9781857541137 (What's this?)	Pages	64
Publisher	Carcanet Press Ltd	Volumes	001
Imprint	Carcanet Press Ltd	Weight (grammes)	6592
Format	Paperback	Published in	Manchester
Publication date	16 Feb 1995	Height (mm)	216
Non-book description	64 p. ;	Width (mm)	130
Library of Congress	PR6058.A59	Spine width (mm)	5
DEWEY	821.914	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, General

		Soft Companion		7
		Summary of a Western		8
		Symptoms		9
		The Affair		10
		Six Sonnets		11
		Before Sherratt & Hughes Became Waterstone's		14
		Two-Headed Dog Street		15
		The Gift		16
		Mad Queen Hospital for Electrifying the Heart		17
		Minding his Boots		18
		Something Coming		19
		A Day Too Late		20
		Trainers All Turn Grey		21
		Another Filling		22
		Introducing Vanity		23
		Second Helping of your Heart		24
		For the Following Reasons		26
		Two Rondels		27
		Call Yourself a Poet		28
		Amusing Myself		30
		Differences		31
		The Answer		32
		No Competition		33
		Friends Again		34
		The Mystery of the Missing		35
		Miracles Start like This		36
		Nostalgia		37
		Two Love Poems		38
		Early Bird Blues		39
		Your Street Again		40
		Three Short Poems		41
		The Trouble with Keeping in Touch		43
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