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This title was short-listed for the 2006 T. S. Eliot 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.
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"The genius of this Scots poet is for finding the sensually charged moment - in a raked northern seascape, in a sexual or gustatory encounter - and depicting it in language that is simultaneously spare and ample." -- The New Yorker
To swither means to suffer indecision or doubt, but there is no faltering in these poems. Robin Robertson has written a book of remarkable cohesion and range-- from raw, exposed poems about the end of childhood to erotically charged lyrics about the ends of desire, from a brilliant re-telling of the metamorphosis and death of Actaeon to the final freeing of the waters in Holding Proteus. At times somber, at times exultant, Robertson's poems are always firmly rooted in the world we see, the life we experience: original, precise, and startlingly clear.
Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland, and now lives in London. His poetry appears regularly in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement, and he has published two previous books of poetry, A Painted Field and Slow Air. In 2004 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Swithering has been shortlisted for the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize.
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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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- PublisherHarvest / Harcourt
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 033044168X
- ISBN 13 9780330441681
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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