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Book SynopsisThe Retrieved Attachments in Peter Robinson’s new collection are to people and places, friends and loved ones, mentor poets and artists. Deploying the full range of his gifts, these poems are characteristically responsive both to fresh encounters and evocative returns. Presented in five titled sections they revisit the landscapes of his years in Japan, find a way to tell the story of a heartbreak, return to familial locations in an unvisitable Italy, elegize or re-encounter companions and friends, and, for the final section, recover intimate senses of a locality’s flora and fauna. Peter Robinson has been described as ‘the finest poet of his generation’ (PN Review) and ‘a major English poet’ (Poetry Review). Retrieved Attachments again shows why.
Trade Review"Robinson’s attentiveness to the nuances of place, even those that appear unpromising on conventional aesthetic terms, has been apparent since his very earliest work and poems here like ‘Across the Park’, ‘Toast Funèbre’ and ‘Behind the Shops’ are further examples of this – acute observations of the modern human landscape that excavate meaning from what’s typically overlooked or ignored and connects it into the broader state we’re in." - Tom Phillips, in The High Window
