Sophie Hannah
Poet and novelist
Hannah published her first collection of poems The Hero and the Girl Next Door at the age of twenty-four. She has since published a further eight collections and The Box Room, Poems for Children. She is also known for her psychological crime novels that have also been produced as television dramas under the series title Case Sensitive (2011–12).
Dogs are objecting to the word dogmatic,From ‘Mountains out of Small Hills’ in The Hero and the Girl Next Door (Manchester: Carcanet, 1995)
the use of certain phrases — barking mad
dog in a manger ...
He fingered a fraying curtainFrom ‘You won’t find a bath in Leeds’ in Poetry Review 90.1 (Spring 2000)
And I said ‘You can’t be sure.
Some things in life are uncertain
And that’s what hope is for.’
Sophie Hannah
by Madeleine Waller
archival digital print, 30 November 2005
NPG x131823
© Madeleine Waller / National Portrait Gallery, London
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