A Painted Field by Robin Robertson
This prize-winning first collection introduced one of the most powerful and original new voices to come out of Scotland. In language both dense and resonant, grave and lyrical, these poems are concerned, in the end, with the fugitive nature of things: the implacable coupling of desire and sadness, beauty and loss. ‘A superb debut . . . darkly chiselled poems haunted by mortality and the fragility of life’s pleasures’ Kazuo Ishiguro, Sunday Times, Books of the Year
Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. A Painted Field won a number of prizes, 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 recently received the 2004 E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330350594 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330350595 |
| Title | A Painted Field |
| Author | Robin Robertson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2004-07-02 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Prizes | Winner of Forward Prize for Poetry Best First Collection 1997 (UK) |
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