- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Picador (21 Feb 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330350587
- ISBN-13: 978-0330350587
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,724,255 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Kazuo Ishiguro, Sunday Times Books of the Year
‘A superb debut...darkly chiselled poems haunted by mortality and the fragility of life’s pleasures.’
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William Boyd, Scotsman Books of the Year
'a poetic voice of quiet yet charged maturity: lyrical and complex, transparent and gravid'
--This text refers to the
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A Painted Field by Robin Robertson is the best new book of poetry that I have read in a very long time. The poems, often about love and loss, are beautifully made and have a powerful, visceral effect - long after the book is put down. I would happily recommend this collection to anyone who is interested in poetry, language or the human spirit.
11 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The genius of this Scots poet is for finding the sensually charged moment - in a raked northern landscape, in a sexual encounter - and depicting it in language that is simultaneously spare and ample, and reminiscent of early Heaney or Hughes. The reader is almost blinded by the incandescent authority of these poems; the heat of the language is dazzling. This is work of grave elegance, lyrical beauty and enormous power.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I saw Mr Robertson read his poems recently and bought his book as a result. It is not simple poetry but more than re-pays the effort. I find I can go back to poems again and again and keep finding new things in them. He is also an amazing reader! Highly recommended.
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