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  • Published: 25 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241962633
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99
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The Poetry of Sex




Fifty Shades of Poetry - a no-holds-barred, highly enjoyable anthology of writing about sex

'It's the way that you say I don't usually do this.'

Romance and poetry seem to go hand in hand but - implicit, explicit, nuanced or starkly frank - sex itself has long been a staple subject for poets.

And little has changed over the centuries, from Ovid describing a summer afternoon of love-making to Rosemary Tonks telling the Story of a Hotel Room.

Sophie Hannah's selection ranges from ancient Rome to modern New York, from gay to straight, from marital bliss to furtive adultery, but her principle has been to go low on the sugar and high on the excitement.

  • Published: 25 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241962633
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah is the internationally bestselling author of eight psychological thrillers, the most recent of which is The Carrier. Her crime novels featuring Simon Waterhouse and Charlie Zailer have been published in more than 25 countries, and adapted for ITV1 as Case Sensitive, starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd. In 2012, Sophie's novel Kind of Cruel was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year, and in 2007 she was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for her latest poetry collection, Pessimism for Beginners. She is a Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and her website is www.sophiehannah.com.

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Praise for The Poetry of Sex

Sophie Hannah is among the best at comprehending in rhyming verse the indignity of having a body and the nobility of having a heart

Guardian