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A Painted Field

by Robin Robertson

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Great stuff, all of it. I drove up and down the length of New England for six months with Robertson's Fugue for Phantoms pouring off my tongue and never once fell asleep at the wheel. (

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Saltire Society (Scottish First Book of the Year, 1997)

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This collection includes Robertson's version of Ovid, "The Flaying of Marsyas", and "Camera Obscura", in which he uses the imagined diary of David Octavius Hill, counterpointed by a narrative of the city of Edinburgh, to portray a life in crisis and the last flowering of the Scottish enlightenment.

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