Selima Hill wins the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets

Poet Selima Hill has won the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets with Advice on Wearing Animal Prints (Flarestack Poets), for the publishing year 2009. Judge Ali Smith presented the poet with the prize at an award ceremony at the British Library in London this evening (16 June 2010). Ali Smith, Chair of the Judges, who announced the winning poet at the award ceremony, said: "Selima Hill's Advice on Wearing Animal Prints is a courageous work; startling, strange and unforgettable, it's a piece of disciplined wildness which grows in power with each re-read."