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Robin Robertson is a Scottish writer who has published five collections of poetry. The Long Take, a book-length narrative sequence of poems, has been longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker award. Robin was born in Scone in 1955.

The Friday Poem: ‘Beside Loch Iffrin’ by Robin Robertson

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New verse by Scottish poet Robin Robertson, who will appear at the Christchurch WORD literary festival and at LitCrawl in Wellington.   Beside Loch Iffrin   for Catherine Lockerbie   Late January, and the oak still green, the year already wrong. The season miscarried – the lambs in the field, and the blossom blown – the … Read more