Author : Robin Robertson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447231538
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Book Synopsis Hill of Doors by : Robin Robertson
Download or read book Hill of Doors written by Robin Robertson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant new collection for the Forward Prize winning poet Charged with strangeness and beauty, Hill of Doors is a haunted and haunting book, where each successive poem seems a shape conjured from the shadows, and where the uncanny is made physically present. The collection sees the return of some familiar members of the Robertson company, including Strindberg – heading, as usual, towards calamity – and the shape-shifter Dionysus. Four loose retellings of stories of the Greek god form pillars for the book, alongside four short Ovid versions. Threaded through these are a series of pieces about the poet’s childhood on the north-east coast, his fascination with the sea and the islands of Scotland. However, the reader will also discover a distinct new note in Robertson’s austere but ravishing poetry: towards the possibility of contentment – a house, a door, a key – finding, at last, a ‘happiness of the hand and heart’. Magisterial in its command and range, indelibly moving and memorable in its speech, Hill of Doors is Robin Robertson’s most powerful book to date.