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Sophie Hannah's first book The Hero and the Girl Next Door (Carcanet, 1995), earned her a remarkably big audience: her broadcasts and public readings throughout the country have proved extremely popular. Her poems entertain with a cunning use of
traditional form, moving beyond satire to the heart of the modern matter: loves, lusts, losses, worldly foibles, how people see themselves and how others see them, the problems of learning to drive and learning to live with a car.
The Poetry Review declared, 'Shall I put it in capitals? SOPHIE HANNAH IS A
GENIUS.' Be that as it may, Hotels like Houses provides a new range of romantic ironies, light and dark laughter, for her readership.
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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Like summer in some countries and like rain
