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

but she is accessible

Any translation is a reading

and putting them back together so that we see them in an entirely different light

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