Sailing the Forest
Selected Poems
Sailing the Forest selects from the finest work of one of the most essential voices in contemporary poetry. Robin Robertson's verse is at once haunted and haunting, beautiful and brutal, ancient and immediate - and capable of tricking ghosts from the most apparently innocuous and familiar shadows. His unique, mythically charged 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 remarkable collections, Robertson has captured the illusory and intangible in language of muscular physicality. Sailing the Forest is the definitive introduction to a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4472-3155-4
- EAN: 9781447231554
- Produktnummer: 20122266
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H14.2 cm x B21.7 cm x D2.5 cm 406 g
- Gewicht: 406
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. He has published five collections of poetry and received a number of accolades, including the Petrarca-Preis, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and all three Forward Prizes. He has also edited a collection of essays, Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame, translated two plays of Euripides, Medea and the Bacchae, and, in 2006, published The Deleted World, a selection of free English versions of poems by the Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer. He lives in London.
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