Arias by Sharon Olds Wayne Price Selima Hill

Selima Hill

winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and being widely applauded in ‘books of the year’

All of the modern poets who have long preoccupied Vendler—Wallace Stevens

Welsh poets have fought back

Arias by Sharon Olds Wayne Price Selima HillFollowing her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman's intimate life and political conscience. The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, the cervix, Trayvon Martin, her mother's return from the dead: the peerless Sharon Olds once again takes up subject matter that is both difficult and ordinary, elusive and everywhere. Each aria is shaped by its unique melody and moral logic, as Olds stands centre stage