Sailing the Forest

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Sailing the Forest selects from the finest work of one of the most essential voices in contemporary poetry. Robin Robertson's verse is at once haunted and haunting, beautiful and brutal, ancient and immediate - and capable of tricking ghosts from the most apparently innocuous and familiar shadows. His unique, mythically charged world is a place of forked storms, where 'Rain . . . is silence turned up high' and we can see 'the hay marry the fire / and the fire walk.' Through five remarkable collections, Robertson has captured the illusory and intangible in language of muscular physicality. Sailing the Forest is the definitive introduction to a poet at the very height of his talents. 'It is above all his firm grasp of the way in which language works that gives his poetry its authority and classical poise. Few poets at work now have his unerring control of the line . . . the poems teem with images and metaphors that give the chime of a struck glass' John Banville, New York Review of Books