The Wrecking Light
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The Wrecking Light

Poems

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The Wrecking Light

Poems

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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.

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Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2011
ISBN
9780547501666
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. SILVERED WATER
  7. Album
  8. Signs on a White Field
  9. By Clachan Bridge
  10. Tulips
  11. The Plague Year
  12. Wonderland
  13. The Tweed
  14. About Time
  15. Fall from Grace
  16. Going to Ground
  17. Cat, Failing
  18. A Gift
  19. Strindberg in Berlin
  20. Venery
  21. My Girls
  22. Tinsel
  23. Leaving St Kilda
  24. BROKEN WATER
  25. Law of the Island
  26. Kalighat
  27. Religion
  28. Pentheus and Dionysus
  29. Lesson
  30. The Daughters of Minyas
  31. An Ambush
  32. Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
  33. Grave Goods
  34. Albatross in Co. Antrim
  35. The Great Midwinter Sacrifice, Uppsala
  36. Web
  37. The Hammam
  38. The Act of Distress
  39. White
  40. UNSPOKEN WATER
  41. The Wood of Lost Things
  42. Middle Watch, Hammersmith
  43. Landfall
  44. Calling Home
  45. Ictus
  46. The Unwritten Letter
  47. Beginning to Green
  48. During Dinner
  49. Arsenio
  50. Dress Rehearsals
  51. Easter, Liguria
  52. Widow’s Walk
  53. Diving
  54. Abandon
  55. At Roane Head
  56. Hammersmith Winter
  57. Notes & Acknowledgements
  58. About the Author