Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson Becky Charriman Translator Forrest Gander beautifully renders

Translator Forrest Gander beautifully renders the eros and heartache

For a week to practice

It is alive with memories

Here language is not a transparent means of conveying a message but a medium that – no less than charcoal or oil paint – materially affects what is expressed through it

Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson Becky Charriman Translator Forrest Gander beautifully rendersCharged 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,