Selima Hill was awarded the King’s Gold Medal for Poetry for 2022, with special recognition given to Gloria: Selected Poems (2008). This draws on collections from 1984 to 2006 and includes Violet (1997), which was shortlisted for all three of the UK’s major poetry prizes, the Forward Prize, T.S. Eliot Prize and Whitbread Poetry Award, and Bunny (2001), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and was also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her most recent Bloodaxe collections are Men Who Feed Pigeons (2021), shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize; and Women in Comfortable Shoes (2023).