The Wrecking Light
Poems
1st Edition
Published on 12. May 2021
112 pages
978-0-547-50166-6 (ISBN)
Description
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Scottish poet's fourth collection shimmers with "an oneiric charge and intensity" (
Guardian, UK).
The Wrecking Light is an intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary. The poet's gaze-whether on the natural world or the details of his own life-is unflinching and clear, its utter seriousness leavened by a wry, dry, and disarming humor.
Alongside fine translations from Neruda and Montale and dynamic retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems here pitch the power and wonder of nature against the frailty and failure of human beings. This is a book of considerable grandeur and sweep that confirms Robertson as one of the most arresting and powerful poets at work today.
The Wrecking Light is an intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary. The poet's gaze-whether on the natural world or the details of his own life-is unflinching and clear, its utter seriousness leavened by a wry, dry, and disarming humor.
Alongside fine translations from Neruda and Montale and dynamic retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems here pitch the power and wonder of nature against the frailty and failure of human beings. This is a book of considerable grandeur and sweep that confirms Robertson as one of the most arresting and powerful poets at work today.
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ROBIN ROBERTSON is a 30-year veteran food writer, cooking teacher, and chef specializing in vegan and vegetarian cooking. She is the author of 20 vegetarian or vegan cookbooks, including Vegan Planet and 1,000 Vegan Recipes, and is a regular columnist for VegNews magazine and VegCooking.com. She operates a vegan-focused website and blog at RobinRobertson.com and lives in Virginia.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- SILVERED WATER
- Album
- Signs on a White Field
- By Clachan Bridge
- Tulips
- The Plague Year
- Wonderland
- The Tweed
- About Time
- Fall from Grace
- Going to Ground
- Cat, Failing
- A Gift
- Strindberg in Berlin
- Venery
- My Girls
- Tinsel
- Leaving St Kilda
- BROKEN WATER
- Law of the Island
- Kalighat
- Religion
- Pentheus and Dionysus
- Lesson
- The Daughters of Minyas
- An Ambush
- Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
- Grave Goods
- Albatross in Co. Antrim
- The Great Midwinter Sacrifice, Uppsala
- Web
- The Hammam
- The Act of Distress
- White
- UNSPOKEN WATER
- The Wood of Lost Things
- Middle Watch, Hammersmith
- Landfall
- Calling Home
- Ictus
- The Unwritten Letter
- Beginning to Green
- During Dinner
- Arsenio
- Dress Rehearsals
- Easter, Liguria
- Widow's Walk
- Diving
- Abandon
- At Roane Head
- Hammersmith Winter
- Notes & Acknowledgements
- About the Author
