Amy Todman talking about her book [cover] to BBC Radio Orkney

Amy Todman talking about  [cover]

Introducing the poem when he launched the 2010 pamphlet at an event in the Blue Bus in London, Gilonis told his audience that in November 1995 he had spent a couple of days in an unheated stone building on the island of Hoy in Orkney: ‘I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been colder. After the first night I got up in the morning to find three inches of hail on the ground… The one thing I had with me apart from not enough warm clothing was a copy of Sieburth’s Hölderlin [Richard Sieburth’s translations of Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hymns and Fragments, Princeton 1984], which I read avidly and with great enjoyment while I was there, and subsequently. And what came out of it was a poem called Reading Hölderlin on Orkney…’

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