I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid by Selima Hill Jean Watkins and three-times winner of the

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

Written during her 80s

After starting out as a writer of highly musical poetry that he spun round in his fingers with the aplomb of a magician who refuted reality

tone and form it ranges widely

to the changeability of skies and the insistent rhythm and presence of the sea

I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid by Selima Hill Jean Watkins and three-times winner of theI 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;