People Who Like Meatballs by Selima Hill Summer selections 2017 deftly presenting a tapestry of

deftly presenting a tapestry of poems and scenes into a single narrative

His sure hand is apparent in every line: syntax and pulse in the service of experience

these poems burn like shooting stars

Through a series of forms both old and new

‘Occasionally a poet comes along pretty much fully formed

People Who Like Meatballs by Selima Hill Summer selections 2017 deftly presenting a tapestry ofThe King's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2022 Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and Forward Poetry Prize People Who Like Meatballs brings together two contrasting poem sequences about rejection by this brilliant lyricist of human darkness (Fiona Sampson). The title sequence, People Who Like Meatballs, is about a mans humiliation by a woman. Into my mothers snow encrusted lap is about a dysfunctional mother child relationship. Like all of Selima Hills