Hotels Like Houses

, by Hannah, Sophie

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ISBN: 9781857542523 | 1857542525
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/1/1997

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This collection provides a range of romantic ironies. Sophie Hannah's poems move beyond satire to the heart of modern matter: loves, lusts, losses, and the foibles of contemporary life.

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Three Hundred Years for Me	p. 7
Where is Talcott Parsons Now?	p. 8
Do I Look Sick?	p. 10
In the Bone Densitometry Room	p. 11
Neither Home Nor Dry	p. 12
Hotels like Houses	p. 13
From A to B (when B is miles from A)	p. 14
Do Detached Houses Want to be Detached?	p. 15
Altering the Angle	p. 16
When He's at Home	p. 17
Slow Start, Weak End	p. 18
Two Sonnets	p. 19
Fair to Say	p. 20
The During Months	p. 21
Three Poems About Cars and Driving	p. 22
The Learner	p. 24
The Treasurer	p. 25
Lusting after Walter Knife	p. 26
To Whom it May Concern at the Whalley Range Driving Test Centre	p. 27
The Pros and the Cons	p. 28
Into His Plans	p. 29
On the Silver Side	p. 30
Preventative Elegy	p. 31
Person Specification	p. 32
The Sight of Mares	p. 33
Glass Eyebrow	p. 34
Four Short Poems	p. 36
She Can Win Favour	p. 38
Ms Quicksand is a Bitch	p. 39
Running into Late	p. 40
The Downfall of Her Oscillating Head	p. 41
Two Poems About Music	p. 42
Soft-Handed Man	p. 43
Selling His Soul	p. 44
Double That Amount	p. 45
Ticket to Staines	p. 46
Postcard from a Travel Snob	p. 47
His Rising	p. 48
Loss Adjuster	p. 49
Two Hundred and Sixty-Five Words	p. 50
I'll Give Him This	p. 51
My Enemies	p. 52
The Subject and the Object	p. 53
What You Deserve	p. 54
All Wrong for Some	p. 55
Nod and Smile	p. 56
Pink and the Gang	p. 57
The Man Who Wouldn't Share His Garden with a Wolf	p. 58
Liberation Day	p. 59
In Layman's Terms	p. 60
The Good Loser	p. 61
A Strong Black Coffee for the Sleeping Dog	p. 62
Sleep Well	p. 64
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