The Hero and the Girl Next Door

Download or read book The Hero and the Girl Next Door written by Sophie Hannah and published by Carcanet. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 colours. 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.