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A Painted Field – Robin Robertson’s first collection – was published in 1997 to unanimous acclaim. In language both sensuous and coolly forthright, the poems in Slow Air describe the arc of loss, the search for grace, and the radiances and shadows of the natural world – the work pitching its embattled romanticism, its lyric weight, against fear, grief and erasure.
Praise for A Painted Field
‘A superb debut . . . darkly chiselled poems haunted by mortality and the fragility of life’s pleasures’ Kazuo Ishiguro, Sunday Times Books of the Year
‘The best new poet in Britain is Robin Robertson’ Andrew O’Hagan, Independent on Sunday Books of the Year
‘A poetic voice of quiet yet charged maturity: lyrical and complex, transparent and gravid, it can treat both the public theme and the intensely personal with the same serenely wrought fire’ William Boyd, Scotsman Books of the Year
‘Robin Robertson is a master of the poetic line; this is wonderful work, at once muscular and delicate, ringing with a plangent, bitter music. A marvellous debut’ John Banville
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Robin Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland. He now lives in London. Slow Air is his second book.
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The earliest Scottish poem that is still popular, at least among poets, is "Lament for the Makars" by William Dunbar (c.1460-c.1530), which mourns the departed bards Dunbar considered his masters and peers. The poem is a literary memento mori, or reminder of death, one of a thematic artistic type pervasive in the Middle Ages and later folk cultures, including Dunbar's--and Robertson's--Scots culture. Consciousness of mortality suffuses Robertson's poetry, which utterly lacks the compensatory gather-ye-rosebuds-while-ye-may bonhomie that the Cavalier poets injected into England's poetry. His first masturbatory "liquefaction," Robertson says, "told [him] three things," the first of which was "that sex is death." That this revelation occurred "that summer, in a field" betokens the principal leavening of dourness in his work: his economical imaging of landscape, the seasons, the weather, and also of manmade detail--the elegy for Mark Rothko, "Maroon, over Black on Red," powerfully exemplifies his way with artificial materials. Although modern and unsentimental, Robertson conjures the bleak medieval and romantic aura of the existential darkling plain and barren heath. Ray Olson
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