I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid by Selima Hill Jean Watkins After starting out as a

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

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

And as Roy McFarlane says in his exuberant introduction to this book – ‘Let Rhythm Chant take a hold of  you

Deftly witty

most virtuosic of modern lyric poets

I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid by Selima Hill Jean Watkins After starting out as aI 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;