First of the Last Chances

Hannah Sophie

A new collection of warm and witty poems about pregnancy and contemporary life.

Best-selling poet Sophie Hannah returns with a wonderful collection of poems that explore and celebrate strong feelings: love, hate, anger, hope – and which strip away the veils of hypocrisy and pretence from all aspects of everyday life. From relationships to the world of work, motherhood and marriage, Sophie Hannah tells it how it is in her own inimitable style. Funny and moving, these poems combine traditional form and rhyme with a contemporary take on modern life that simultaneously raises a smile and provides thoughts to linger over. This collection also include "A Woman's Life and Loves", eight poems set to music by the composer Gabriel Jackson that form a song cycle originally concieved as a contemporary and feminist response to the Schumann song cycle.

Sophie Hannah's first book was greeted with amazement. The Poetry Review declared, "Shall I put it in capitals? SOPHIE HANNAH IS A GENIUS". Each subsequent collection has been formally more inventive, thematically more complex, yet each has met with a similar welcome, and she has become that rare thing, a popular and best-selling poet.

About the Author

Sophie Hannah was born in Manchester in 1971. In 2004 she was selected as one of the twenty Next Generation poets, and has now published five collections of poetry. Her crime novels have been published in more than 35 countries, and have been adapted for television in the UK. Her Hercule Poirot novel "The Monogram Murders" was published worldwide in September 2014. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and children,

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