Awards

• Short-listed for Costa Poetry Award 2013
• Short-listed for Costa Poetry Award 2014 (UK)
• Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2013
• Short-listed for T. S. Eliot Prize 2014 (UK)
• Shortlisted for Costa Poetry Award 2013.
• Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize 2013.

Overview

"A brilliant new collection from 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."

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Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. He has published four previous collections of poetry and has received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Cholmondeley Award and all three Forward Prizes.

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