Kazuo Ishiguro, Sunday Times Books of the Year
‘A superb debut...darkly chiselled poems haunted by mortality and the fragility of life’s pleasures.’
William Boyd, Scotsman Books of the Year
'a poetic voice of quiet yet charged maturity: lyrical and complex, transparent and gravid'
Product Description
The first collection from one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation of poets
Book Description
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
About the Author
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.
