A Hill to Die On, the new poetry collection by Nathan Curnow, explores the ancient yet everyday cycles of hope and despair. These courageous and self-ironising poems track a personal account of a poet living in the profound joy and frailty of language - its capacities to describe the difficult and the tender, along with the possibility of healing. Drawing on narrative, myth and fable Curnow critiques the idea of 'arrival' at a promised place or state; these poems alternating from the past to the present, from parable to domestic scenes, repeatedly connecting the saga of hope to the variable events of his own life - one that's creative, lyrical and always full of broken lines.