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Sailing the Forest

Selected Poems

2014 Released
272 Pages
1-2 Hours
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PicadorISBN 9781447274056

Sailing the Forest, Robin Robertson's Selected Poems, is the definitive guide to one of the most important poetic voices to have emerged from the UK in the last twenty-five years. Robertson's lyrical, brooding, dark and often ravishingly beautiful verse has seen him win almost every major poetry award; readers on both sides of the Atlantic have delighted in his preternaturally accurate ear and eye, and his utterly distinctive way with everything from the love poem to the macabre narrative. This book is both an ideal introduction to a necessary poet, and a fine summary of the great range and depth of Robertson's work to date.

Robin Robertson

Robin Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, taking degrees there and in Canada, before going on to become an editor and publisher. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has written seven books of poetry, edited various books of essays and collaborated with Alasdair Roberts on Hirta Songs: an album of songs and music inspired by St Kilda. His version of the Bacchae by Euripides was recently staged at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus in Greece.

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