In The Long Take, which has an epical feel, Robin Robertson, one of the finest lyric poets of our time, deploys his artistic reach in a fiction narrative of more than 200 pages, composed in a mixture of verse and prose. It is a beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Glorious success … Robin Robertson. Robertson, who must have given years to researching his material, writes of war with appalling immediacy, surveying the carnage with a calmly Homeric eye. What Siodmak says of Walker can also be said of Robertson, that he has “what we call / deep focus.

Source: The Guardian March 24, 2018 07:18 UTC