But it is always connected to human affairs. Robertson was born in northeast Scotland, and much of his poetry includes references to the wild, harsh and beautiful landscape there. The admiring review in the New York Times Book Review is well deserved, although the poems are darker than I expected. There are hard times These are intensely felt poems with amazingly inventive and surprising language you would never have thought of on your own, but that communicates an immediately perfect sensation.

These are intensely felt poems with amazingly inventive and surprising language you would never have thought of on your own, but that communicates an immediately perfect sensation. Sailing the Forest reveals a wild-hearted poet at the height of his talents.more '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). Through five extraordinary collections, Robertson has captured the intangible, illusory world in razor-sharp language. is silence turned up high' and we can see 'the hay marry the fire / and the fire walk.' Robertson's unique world is a place of forked storms where 'Rain. These are poems drawn in shadow, tinged with salt and blood, that disarm the reader with their precise language and dreamlike illuminations.

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. Robin Robertson's deceptively spare and mythically charged work is beautifully brutal, ancient and immediate, and capable of instilling menace and awe into our everyd A selection of poems spanning the career of a poet of the uncannyįilled with haunting and visionary poems, Sailing the Forest is a selection of the finest work from an essential voice in contemporary poetry. 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.

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