The Grail Roads by Rob Hindle Eleanor Margolies ‘Hill has a consistently refreshing

‘Hill has a consistently refreshing imaginative voice

Kate Potts' Whichever Music was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice in 2008 and shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award

souls falling off things

as they try to address the crisis in their country

The Grail Roads by Rob Hindle Eleanor Margolies ‘Hill has a consistently refreshingThe ribbon of land that runs through north west France and into Flanders is always being turned over. Each year, the ploughs of French and Belgian farmers uncover shrapnel, bullets, barbed wire and artillery shells; an iron harvest that takes in the jumbled debris of the Hundred Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, and, in particular, the First World War. The Grail Roads digs deep into the cultural strata of these conflicts, and is haunted by their