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Robin Robertson - Hill of Doors, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2013

Hill of Doors

Av Robin Robertson

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-02-28
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781447238102
  • Förlag: Pan Macmillan
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for T. S. Eliot Prize 2014 (UK)
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Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. His four previous collections have received a number of honours including the E.M. Forster Award and various Forward Prizes.

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Invigorating ... Some poems are as satisfying as novels - but the fullness is always achieved through simplicity -- Kate Kellaway Observer A superb myth-fuelled poetry collection' Daily Telegraph Thematically, Hill of Doors is of a piece with Robertson's superb 2010 collection The Wrecking Light, which was shortlisted for the big three prizes ... There are similar dreamscapes, abandoned houses, echoes of an extinguished human presence reclaimed by nature, and a similarly flinty beauty to the imagery' Guardian Keys of all kinds loom large in a collection that mixes pin-sharp childhood memories in Scotland with re-workings of Greek Sunday Telegraph packed with fine individual poems, highly varied in form, theme and style ... outstanding ... superb ... The more you read, the more connections emerge, and the more one poem lights up the depths of another. -- Edmund Prestwich The North Magazine

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