Crazily original, deliriously brilliant and recklessly erotic, 'Selima Hill's world is strange, dream-like, secretive… delicate, moving and vaguely sinister' - Carol Ann Duffy. Poems in the voice of a woman growing up on a remote cattle farm, based on Flannery O'Connor.

woman growing up on a remote cattle farm with her mother, a devout Catholic, and her much-loved assortment of animals. She is already nearly 30, knows little of the outside world, and walks with a slight limp. One day a stranger calls, a travelling slaughterman . . .
Where Selima Hill's last book, The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness, was the record of a nervous breakdown, A Little Book of Meat tells the story of a love affair, combining the tenderness and subversive humour of her most startling poetry with the imaginative depth and unpredictability of an untamed novel.

'She is truly gifted. She invests mundane things with visionary, delirious brilliance' - Graham Swift, Sunday Times
'Her language and imagery is sensual, controlled . . . Hill's world is strange, dream-like, secretive . . . delicate, moving and vaguely sinister' - Carol Ann Duffy, Guardian
'Selima Hill evokes, for me, the inner childhood world we're supposed to give up as we become adult yet which artists need to draw upon' - Michèle Roberts, Time Out
A Little Book of Meat (1993) was published as a companion volume to Selima Hill's Trembling Hearts in the Bodies of Dogs: New & Selected Poems (1994). There is no overlap between these two books.