Robin Robertson (2018 Event)

A renowned poet whose work often hauntingly evokes the lives of
Scottish outsiders, and a mesmerising reader of his own work,
Robin Robertson strikes out with a breathtaking new project, The
Long Take. In this verse novel, Walker is a war veteran from Nova
Scotia who sets out for Los Angeles in 1948. Robertson’s book
demonstrates the origins of ‘noir’, presented here with period
filmic and musical accompaniment.


 


Robertson has won multiple prestigious awards for his writing and
is regarded as one of Scotland’s finest poets. He has been
shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize for The Long Take –
about which the judges said: ‘it’s an extraordinary evocation of
the debris and the ongoing destruction of war even in times of
peace. Robin Robertson shows the flexibility a poet can bring to
form and style.’ In this event recorded live at the 2018
Edinburgh International Book Festival, we meet a writer at the
height of his powers.