I’ve never known a kangaroo to swim,
I’ve never made successful strawberry jam,
I’ve never heard a flute without wondering
how my brother died and if he loved me.

Selima Hill received a Cholmondeley Award in 1986 and first prize in the Arvon International Poetry Competition with part of The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness (1989), one of several extended sequences in Gloria: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008). Gloria, Violet (1997) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, T.S. Eliot Prize and Whitbread Poetry Award, while Bunny (2001) won the Whitbread Poetry Award and was also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Selima is a winner of the King’s Gold Medal (2022). She ma grew up in a family of painters in farms in England and Wales and has lived in Dorset for the past 40 years.

The Lonely Slug is Selima’s second title with Guillemot Press, following 2023’s Dancing Lessons for the Very Shy. It has been illustrated by Moby Hill, with a screen-printed and hot-foiled cover slug by Ria Gunton.

ISBN 978-1-913749-51-4 / 84 pages / 175 x 120mm / Made with Arena, Blackgold and Stardream papers

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