Little Book of Meat

The poems in A Little Book of Meat are written in the voice of a woman growing up on a remote cattle farm with her mother, a devout Catholic, and her much-loved assortment of animals. She is already nearly 30, knows little of the outside world, and walks with a slight limp. One day a stranger calls, a travelling slaughterman... Where Selima Hill's last book, The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness, was the record of a nervous breakdown, A Little Book of Meat tells the story of a love affair, combining the tenderness and subversive humour of her most startling poetry with the imaginative depth and unpredictability of an untamed novel.