Swithering
Author(s): Robin Robertson
This book is the winner of the 2006 Forward Prize. In Scots, the verb 'swither' has two meanings: to be doubtful, to waver, to be in two minds; and to appear in shifting forms - indeterminate and volatile. From disarmingly direct poems about the end of childhood to erotically charged lyrics about the ends of desire, Robertson's powerful third collection is stalked and haunted by both senses. Hard-edged, pitch-perfect, effortlessly various, "Swithering" is a book of brave and black romance, locating its voice in that space where great change is an ever-present possibility. "Swithering" has just won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and is also shortlisted for this year's T.S. Eliot Prize.
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Winner of Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Award: Poetry 2007. Shortlisted for Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 2006.
Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. A Painted Field won a number of awards, including the 1997 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year Award. His second collection, Slow Air, was published in 2002 and he recently received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Picador
- : 03 February 2006
- : 197mm X 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Robin Robertson
- : 96
- : 16
- : 821.914
- : 1
- : Paperback
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