Hill of Doors
by Robin Robertson
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A brilliant new collection from the Forward Prize winning poetCharged 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Raised on the northeast coast of Scotland, Robin Robertson is a highly acclaimed poet and editor. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, Grand Street, the London Review of Books, and other publications. He lives in London
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- Hill of Doors
- Original publication date
- 2013
- People/Characters
- Dionysus
- Epigraph
- 'let us not forget that the greatest man
is never more than the animal
disguised as a god'
Picabia - Dedication
- for Karin
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- English
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