Rabbi / Robin by Shereen Akhtar Pavilion Poetry winner of the Costa Award

winner of the Costa Award for Biography and Sunday Times Biography of the Year

monologues

and those who simply did not fit anywhere else

rather than the other way around—so that the dystopic might become

Any translation is a reading

Rabbi / Robin by Shereen Akhtar Pavilion Poetry winner of the Costa AwardComplex, melancholic, and sensual, the late Shereen Akhtars Rabbi Robin is at a continuous crossroads of reckoning with queer, interfaith love, addiction and channeling the expansion of this mysterious darkness and light, in which the speaker invites us to kiss the calligraphy on her skin too holy to touch. The words burn. The words are moot. But Akhtars words themselves ask the reader to give so much more of themselves, to consider and make real a