Grimoire by Robin Robertson PBS Choice The poetic styles on show

The poetic styles on show are similarly varied

Although he often railed against the defenders of Slovene [traditional poetic] beauty and the tyranny of metaphor

much like Dante’s Inferno

Alex McKeown

burrowed under or flown above

Grimoire by Robin Robertson PBS Choice The poetic styles on showThe new book from the author of The Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. Like some lost chapters from the Celtic folk tradition, Grimoire tells stories of ordinary people caught up, suddenly, in the extraordinary: tales of violence, madness and retribution, of second sight, witches, ghosts, selkies, changelings and doubles, all bound within a larger mythology, narrated by a