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Marrying the Ugly Millionaire: New and Collected Poems

Marrying the Ugly Millionaire: New and Collected Poems


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Sophie Hannah is one of Britain's best-loved poets, a disarmingly witty, sharp-eyed chronicler of everyday life and its peculiarities. She is also an internationally successful author of psychological crime fiction, and has written the first new Hercule Poirot novel to be authorised by the Agatha Christie estate. This book collects all of her previous collections of verse and also includes new and uncollected poems.

About the Author :
Sophie Hannah is a Sunday Times, New York Times and Amazon Kindle UK No. 1 bestselling writer of crime fiction and poetry, published in forty-nine languages and fifty-one territories. Her books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Her murder mystery musical, The Mystery of Mr E, was released as a feature film in 2023, directed by Martyn Tott. In 2023, Sophie won the Crime Writers Association’s Dagger in the Library Award for her body of work, and in 2013 her thriller The Carrier won the Crime Thriller of the Year Award at the National Book Awards. Sophie’s poetry has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award. Her poetry is studied at GCSE, A Level and degree level across the UK. In 2018, she created the How to Hold a Grudge podcast, based on her self-help book of the same name. More recently, she has published two other self-help books: Happiness: A Mystery, and her latest, The Double Best Method, which was an Amazon UK Top Ten best-seller and is a guide to making the best possible decisions. Sophie is the founder and coach at Dream Author Coaching, a coaching programme for writers and anyone who wants to write. She lives with her husband, children and dog in Cambridge, where she is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College.

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It was recently reported that the World Health Organisation has been issued with new guidelines on the naming of diseases. Among other recommendations, the WHO suggested that names like 'swine Flu' and 'monkeypox' should ne avoided, because they threaten the safety of the animals in question. Some call it a risible case of political correctness; the WHO defended it as a sensible precaution. but Sophie Hannah had seen it coming back in 1995 in her poem 'Mountain out of Small Hills': 'Dogs are objecting to the word dogmatic, / the use of certain phrases - barking mad, / dog in the manger. Equally emphatic / are other species. Rats and snakes have / had / enough of being symbols of deceit / and treachery. They say there's no excuse, / and there are fish protesting on the the street / at being linked with acohol abuse.' It's a truism that the great surrealists turn out to have been great realists all along. Hannah, who is both, writes in two principal modes: the ludicrous whimsy and painful bluntness. Commissioned by O2 to write a Valentine's poem in up to 160 characters (the length of a text), she delivered the following sweet-nothing: 'Blank spaces count as characters. It's true. / I wasn't sure. And then I thought of you.' The obvious comparison is with Wendy Cope, except that Hannah is more defiantly extreme. You can imagine a Cope poem about dating the ugly millionaire, but she would get rid of him sooner or later. Hannah's poems follow things through to their alarming conclusions. They see past artificial poses to the raw emotional material of resentment, projection, delusion and self-justification. 'Did you want to end up in a nasty poem?' she asks one ex-lover. (Too late now) Some of her poems are nasty, there is no getting away from it; but there are also perceptive poems about nastiness, about the capacity for cruelty and power-games. she is interested in self-help and modern spirituality, but likes to point out that they are often a kind of psychological harmony that is not achievable by sheer force of will: 'I do my best, I do my worst / With my specific heart - / God and the Devil got there first; / They had an early start.' 'My specific heart' is a very Sophie Hannah phrase: it means not just that the speaker has ths heart rather than somebody else's, but that the heart is itself specific, that it feels a particular thing which isn't quite covered by the available vocabulary, and which a poet should be trying to pin down. Hannah specialises in syaing out loud the practially insane thoughts which pass through the midn at stressful moments, and her candour makes some of these poems ('Skipping Rhyme for Graduates', 'You Won't Find a Bath in Leeds') laugh-out-loud funny, and others ('Preventative Elegy', 'In Wokingham on Boxing Day at the Edinburgh Woollen Mill') genuinely touching. It is hard not to go on quoting line after line, such is Hannah's knack for a memorable turn of phrase. Although two of the collections grouped together here, Hotels Like Houses and Leaving and Leaving You, contain too much three-star material, I missed this book when I was away from it and whizzed through its pages at a speed not usually excited by a Collected Poems.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781784100254
  • Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1784100250
  • Publisher Date: 28 May 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: New and Collected Poems


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