{"id":3741,"date":"2013-08-12T12:31:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2017-12-02T23:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T23:30:11","slug":"beautiful-girls-selected-as-a-pbs-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/08\/beautiful-girls-selected-as-a-pbs-recommendation\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Girls selected as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Beautiful Girls<\/em>, the second collection by Blackburn-based poet Melissa Lee-Houghton, has been selected as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Winter 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa, whose first book <em>A Body Made of You<\/em>, came out from Penned in the Margins in 2011, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s the best news ever, and it still hasn&#8217;t sunk in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Beautiful Girls<\/em>, described by Chris McCabe as &#8216;a sleepover at the asylym&#8217; and &#8216;a testament to poetry&#8217;s force in overcoming&#8217;,\u00a0 is due out in November 2013 and will be launched together with new books by Siddhartha Bose and Hannah Silva at Toynbee Theatre, London on 14 November.<\/p>\n<p>This selection comes just two weeks after <em>The Shipwrecked House<\/em> by Claire Trevien was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/07\/the-shipwrecked-house-longlisted-for-the-guardian-first-book-award\/\">longlisted<\/a> for the Guardian First Book Award, marking a particularly strong year in our poetry publishing programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16173,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions\/16173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}