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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. 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.
Praise for Sophie Hannah: 'Sophie Hannah is a poet of considerable skill...A shrewd and accurate observer of the world around her, and of her own life, she is often very funny.' Wendy Cope 'Sophie Hannah is one of my favourite young poets...she writes pithy, witty, poignant poems about love and relationships.' Daisy Goodwin
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My sister knows my name and nothing else.
