A Painted Field: Poems

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Summary: Wonderful poetry
Review: I came across this Scottish poet at a literary festival in Montreal and was completely blown away by his reading. Once I read A Painted Field, I realised that this was one of the most powerful new voices I've read - from either side of the Atlantic. His writing is taut, sensuous, beautifully imagined and often incredibly moving. He seems able to move from the terrifyingly visceral to the heartbreakingly lyrical with complete ease and confidence. Extraordinary stuff.

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Summary: The Real Thing
Review: Rarely does one find the magisterial artistic command so evident in this book in any poetry collection--let alone in the first collection of a "new" poet. Robertson is no joke: not even the initial reviews on this website (glowing as they are) can do him anything like justice. Here appear poems that require reading, and that don't stand much discussion. That (for me) is what real works of art are like: they want to conjure up not ideas about the thing, but the thing itself.

I can't wait for the next book from this man. This is, by a very long shot, the best thing I've read in a while--in any discipline.

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Summary: Robin Robertson ROCKS!
Review: Rarely does one find the magisterial artistic command so evident in this book in any poetry collection--let alone in the first collection of a "new" poet. Robertson is no joke: not even the initial reviews on this website (glowing as they are) can do him anything like justice. Here appear poems that require reading, and that don't stand much discussion. That (for me) is what real works of art are like: they want to conjure up not ideas about the thing, but the thing itself.

I can't wait for the next book from this man. This is, by a very long shot, the best thing I've read in a while--in any discipline.

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Summary: Robin Robertson ROCKS!
Review: Robin Robertson is and absolutely amazing poet!! I loved both his collections SO much!! Anyone who hasn't read 'A painted field' or 'slow air' should definitely buy them!! They are well worth it!!