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Wrecking Light
Robin Robertson
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Description for Wrecking Light
Paperback. Shortlisted for the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Award Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
Robin Robertson's fourth collection is, if anything, an even more intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book than Swithering, winner of the Forward Prize. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary: the poet's gaze -- whether on the natural world or the details of his own life -- is unflinching and clear, its utter seriousness leavened by a wry, dry and disarming humour. Alongside fine translations from Neruda and Montale and dynamic (and at times horrific) retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems in The Wrecking Light pitch the power and ... Read more
Robin Robertson's fourth collection is, if anything, an even more intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book than Swithering, winner of the Forward Prize. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary: the poet's gaze -- whether on the natural world or the details of his own life -- is unflinching and clear, its utter seriousness leavened by a wry, dry and disarming humour. Alongside fine translations from Neruda and Montale and dynamic (and at times horrific) retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems in The Wrecking Light pitch the power and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
147g
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330515481
SKU
V9780330515481
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99-50
About Robin Robertson
Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. A Painted Field won a number of awards, including the 1997 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year Award. His second collection, Slow Air, was published in 2002 and he has received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and ... Read more
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