People Who Like Meatballs

Shortlisted for the 2012 Forward Poetry Prize. People Who Like Meatballs brings together two contrasting poem sequences about rejection by ''this brilliant lyricist of human darkness'' (Fiona Sampson). The title-sequence, People Who Like Meatballs, is about a man''s humiliation by a woman. Into my mother''s snow-encrusted lap is about a dysfunctional mother-child relationship. Like all of Selima H...