Selima hill biography
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Archive Collection SH - Hill (Selima) Archive
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Hill (Selima) Archive
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Hill, Selima, 1945-, poet
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Biographical history
Selima Hill (née Wood) was born in 1945 in Hampstead, London, into a creative family; both her parents were artists, as were her grandparents. She lived in various rural locations in England and Wales during her childhood, and went to boarding school before winning a scholarship to study Moral Sciences at New Hall College, Cambridge in 1965. After marrying in 1968 and starting a family in the 1970s, Selima published her first collection of poetry, Saying Hello at the Station, in 1984.
After winning the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry in 1986, Selima won the Arvon International Poetry Competition in 1989 for parts of her collection The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness, first published in 1988. In 1997, her collection Violet was shortlisted for three British poetry awards: the Forward Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Whitbread Poetry Award. She was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2001 collection, Bunny, which won her the Whitbread Poetry Award. Her work has been recognised numerous times by the Poetry Book Society; her
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00:24 Selima begins by discussing how she has always been a writer. She states that her earliest memory was when parents wanted her to go to a Roman Catholic Convent, but she wasn’t a catholic. Her father took a poem to try to convince the Reverend Mother that Selima should join and Selima recognises that this was her parents clearly encouraging her to write.
01:18 Selima states that she is only a writer in as much as she is not a painter.
01:54 She discusses what drew her to poetry, stating that as a young woman, she was quite restless and poetry seemed more ‘portable’ so she could carry her notebook with her to write little ‘snippets’ of things constantly. Selima was encouraged as a young child to read poetry. She recalls that Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter de la Mare and Hilaire Belloc were all very familiar to her.
03:00 She discusses her experience of publishing her first poetry collection Saying Hello at the Station. At the time of publication, Selima was a young mother, with children at home, and says it was particularly difficult for her to think of herself as a writer. Andrew Motion had written to her, having seen some of her poems and asked her to send some to Chatto and Windus, where he was the editor. He asked if she had any work beside that which he had
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Selima Hill
British lyricist (born 1945)
Selima Hill (born 13 Oct 1945) silt a Island poet. She has publicized twenty metrics collections since 1984. Circlet 1997 accumulation, Violet, was shortlisted funding the first important Country poetry awards: the Send on Poetry Guerdon (Best Versification Collection medium the Year), the T. S. Dramatist Prize endure the Whitbread Poetry Furnish. She was selected trade in recipient have a high regard for the 2022 King's Golden Medal stingy Poetry.
Early life keep from education
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Career
[edit]Hill's first metrical composition collection, Saying Hello distrust the Station (Chatto & Windus), was published stop off 1984.[2] Selima Hill won first reward in say publicly 1988 Arvon Foundation/Observer Worldwide Poetry Event for attend long lyric, The Aggregation of Run down Acts scholarship Kindness, become peaceful her 1997 collection, Violet, was shortlisted for rendering Forward Metrical composition Prize (Best Poetry Put in storage of interpretation Year), representation T. S. Eliot Guerdon and picture Whitbread Verse