Selima Hill's latest collection, ''The Hat'', is a disturbing portrayal of a woman's struggle to regain her identity. Her story emerges through a series of short poems, often related to animals: how she is preyed upon and betrayed, misunderstood, compromised and not allowed to be herself. Like all of Selima Hill's books, ''The Hat'' charts extreme experience with a dazzling excess', with dark humour and surprising combinations of homely and outlandish. ''The Hat'' is published at the same time Selima Hill's ''Gloria: Selected Poems'', which draws on ten previous collections.