I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid by Selima Hill Jean Watkins ‘You will try to make

‘You will try to make sense of the terrain

Written during her 80s

and three-times winner of the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Poetry

most virtuosic of modern lyric poets

deftly packing and unpacking themselves into new forms and presenting the reader with confidences

I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid by Selima Hill Jean Watkins ‘You will try to makeI May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid brings together six contrasting but complementary poem sequences by this brilliant lyricist of human darkness (Fiona Sampson) relating to family, fear, foreboding and felicity. Elective Mute is about autism and happiness; My Mother and Me on the Eve of the Chess Championships, about a mother who prefers lettuces to life; Fishtank (Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice), about a brother who is somebody else;