My Time in Space

Tim Robinson

ISBN 10: 1901866645 / ISBN 13: 9781901866643

Published by The Lilliput Press Ltd, Ireland, Dublin, 2001

About this Item

In an essay from 1996 collection Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and Other Essays, Tim Robinson noted that we are spatial entities, which is even more basic than being physical entities, subject to the law of gravity. In this dazzling new series of essays Robinson examines aspects of his own time in space, moving from his childhood in Yorkshire, to a deadly moment on a Malayan airstrip, a pilgrimage to the midnight sun, adventures in the art-worlds of Istanbul, Vienna and London, and finally to the spaces of the West of Ireland which he has interpreted with incomparable attention and fidelity over the past three decades. The essays explore problems in mathematics and mapping, the human implications of the arc of a missile the feelings of a sceptic upon approaching divine ground in the company of a mystic, and other encounters of the empirical with the numinous: Robinson has an uncanny capacity to write convincingly about both. The sequence ends with an angry outburst against the continuing destruction of the Irish countryside and a moving hymn to the delights of his own house and garden at the edge of the sea in Connemara. My Time in Space is the latest instalment in a literary corpus of singular integrity and endless fascination. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Time in Space
• Publisher: The Lilliput Press Ltd, Ireland, Dublin
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1901866645
• ISBN 13: 9781901866643
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 381 grams

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Synopsis

In an essay from 1996 collecton Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and Other Essays, Tim Robinson noted that ‘we are spatial entities, which is even more basic than being physical entities, subject to the law of gravity’. In this dazzling new series of essays Robinson examines aspects of his own ‘time in space’, moving from his childhood in Yorkshire, to a deadly moment on a Malayan airstrip, a pilgrimage to the midnight sun, adventures in the art-worlds of Istanbul, Vienna and London, and finally to the spaces of the West of Ireland which he has interpreted with incomparable attention and fidelity over the past three decades. The essays explore problems in mathematics and mapping, the human implications of the arc of a missile the feelings of a sceptic upon approaching divine ground in the company of a mystic, and other encounters of the empirical with the numinous: Robinson has an uncanny capacity to write convincingly about both. The sequence ends with an angry outburst against the continuing destruction of the Irish countryside and a moving hymn to the delights of his own house and garden at the edge of the sea in Connemara. My Time in Space is the latest instalment in a literary corpus of singular integrity and endless fascination.

About the Author

TIM ROBINSON was born in England in 1935. Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage(1985), won the Irish Book Award Literature Medal and a Rooney Prize Special Award for Literature in 1987. Stones of Aran: Labyrinth(1995) both volumes are available as Penguin paperbacks, and Labyrinth as a Lilliput hardback. Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara was published in 1996. A collection of stories and speculative essays, Tales and Imaginings, was published by Lilliput in 2002.