"A selection of poems spanning the career of a poet of the uncanny Filled with haunting and visionary poems, Sailing the Forest is a selection of the finest work from an essential voice in contemporary poetry. Robin Robertson's deceptively spare and mythically charged work is beautifully b...

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1. Verfasser:	Robertson, Robin 1955- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Picador 2014
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	English poetry / Scottish authors Scottish poetry / 21st century Scottish poetry
Zusammenfassung:	"A selection of poems spanning the career of a poet of the uncanny Filled with haunting and visionary poems, Sailing the Forest is a selection of the finest work from an essential voice in contemporary poetry. Robin Robertson's deceptively spare and mythically charged work is beautifully brutal, ancient and immediate, and capable of instilling menace and awe into our everyday landscape. These are poems drawn in shadow, tinged with salt and blood, that disarm the reader with their precise language and dreamlike illuminations. Robertson's unique world is a place of forked storms where "Rain. is silence turned up high" and we can see "the hay marry the fire / and the fire walk." Through five extraordinary collections, Robertson has captured the intangible, illusory world in razor-sharp language. "The genius of this Scots poet is for finding the sensually charged moment--in a raked northern seascape, in a sexual or gustatory encounter--and depicting it in language that is simultaneously spare and ample, and reminiscent of early Heaney or Hughes" (The New Yorker). Sailing the Forest reveals a wild-hearted poet at the height of his talents"--
Beschreibung:	Includes index New Gravity -- Three Ways of Looking at God -- Advent in Co. Fermanagh -- Static -- Sheela-na-Gig -- The Flaying of Marsyas -- Aberdeen -- Pibroch -- Fireworks -- Jack-in-the-Green -- Hands of a Farmer in Co. Tyrone -- Moving House -- Artichoke -- Silver Lake, Vermont -- The Immoralist -- Shot -- The Flowers of the Forest -- Six Views from the Camera Obscura -- From Slow Air (2002) -- Apart -- Wedding the Locksmith's Daughter -- The Language of Birds -- Maroon, Over Black on Red -- March, Lewisboro -- Break -- Exposure -- False Spring -- Dream of the Huntress -- The Thermal Image -- The Long Home -- Sorrows -- Waves -- Hide -- Asterion and the God -- Fall -- From Swithering (2006) -- The Park Drunk -- At Dawn -- What the Horses See at Night -- Trysts -- Primavera -- The Death of Actaeon -- Swimming in the Woods -- Ghost of a Garden -- Selkie -- Wormwood -- The Glair -- Heel of Bread -- New York Spring -- Myth -- Contents note continued: The Lake at Dusk -- A Seagull Murmur -- Actaeon: The Early Years -- Leavings -- Donegal -- La Stanza delle Mosche -- Lizard -- Crossing the Archipelago -- Rainmaker -- Holding Proteus -- Trumpeter Swan -- From The Wrecking Light (2010) -- Album -- Signs on a White Field -- By Clachan Bridge -- The Plague Year -- Tulips -- Wonderland -- The Tweed -- About Time -- Cat, Failing -- A Gift -- Strindberg in Berlin -- Venery -- My Girls -- Leaving St Kilda -- Law of the Island -- Tinsel -- Lesson -- The Wood of Lost Things -- Middle Watch, Hammersmith -- Beginning to Green -- Easter, Liguria -- Widow's Walk -- Diving -- Abandon -- Hammersmith Winter -- At Roane Head -- From Hill of Doors (2013) -- Annunciation -- The Coming God -- A Childhood -- 1964 -- Under Beinn Ruadhainn -- Corryvreckan -- A Quick Death -- Dionysus in Love -- The Fishermen's Farewell -- The Halving -- The Ghost of Actaeon -- A&E -- Falconer's Farewell -- Strindberg in Skovlyst -- Contents note continued: The Cave of Sleep -- Dionysus and the Maiden -- The Shelter -- Partytime -- Punchinello's Farewell -- The House of Rumour -- The God Who Disappears -- Finding the Keys -- Crimond -- Glass of Water and Coffee Pot -- Port na h-Abhainne -- The Key
Beschreibung:	192 pages 20 cm
ISBN:	9781447274049 1447274040