Ian Sansom

Standard Name: Sansom, Ian

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Selima Hill
This book was another Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Hill, Selima. My Sister’s Horse. Smith/Doorstop Books, 1996.
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On its cover Michèle Roberts is quoted writing in Time Out that SH evokes the inner childhood world we're supposed to give up as we become...
Textual Features John Betjeman
Critic Ian Sansom notes the preference this poetry evinces for familiarity and tradition. He singles out for mention the opening poem, Death in Leamington (about the bleakness of a woman's death in lonely, genteel poverty),...

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Texts

Sansom, Ian. “Don’t Kill Me, I’m Only the Therapist”. The Guardian, p. Review 26.
Sansom, Ian. “Happy Knack”. London Review of Books, pp. 27-8.