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Swithering / Robin Robertson.

Title
Swithering / Robin Robertson.
Author
Robertson, Robin, 1955-
Publication
London : Picador, 2006.

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Description
85 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
With its descriptive precision, and occasionally moving and disarming directness, 'Swithering' is a collection of poetry from Robin Robertson.
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Genre/Form
Authors' autographs (Provenance)
Note
  • Poems.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The park drunk -- Trysts -- At dawn -- What the horses see at night -- Primavera -- Cusp -- The eel -- The death of Actaeon -- Swimming in the woods -- Drowning in Co. Down -- Ghost of a garden -- Selkie -- Between the harvest and the hunter's moon -- Old ways -- Entry -- Samhain -- Still life with cardoon and carrots -- Strindberg in London -- The glair -- Strindberg in Paris -- Heel of bread -- Entropy -- Sea-fret -- Myth -- New York spring -- The lake at dusk -- A seagull murmur -- Calcutta, Co. Armagh -- Mar-hawk -- The catch -- Actaeon : the early years -- To my daughters, asleep -- Firesetting -- Siesta -- La stanza delle Mosche -- Lizard -- Ode to conger-eel broth -- Asparagus -- On Pharos -- Manifest -- Untitled (51) -- Net -- Crossing the archipelago -- Bow -- Rainmaker -- The custom-house -- Leavings -- Donegal -- Trumpeter swan -- Answers -- Holding Proteus.
ISBN
033044168X (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 62265284
  • SCSB-11441807
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library