A Painted Field (1997)

by Robin Robertson

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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… (more)

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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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A Painted Field

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1997

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

Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection, 1997)

Poetry Book Society Recommendation (1997)

Aldeburgh First Collection Prize (1997)

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For Clare, Eilidh and Cait

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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

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