Born in Hampstead in 1945 into a family of painters, Selima Hill now lives on the Dorset coast. A prodigiously prolific poet, her first collection, Saying Hello at the Station, was published in 1984 and she has since produced over twenty collections (including two Selected Poems), most published by Bloodaxe Books. Her 1997 collection, Violet, was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize,...
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