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“... svenska.’ ‘A Painted Field’ is the sombre, highly polished début of the Scottish poet, Robin Robertson, much of it taken up with atmospheric depictions of natural scenes. For a first book, it is of an unusually high standard, which seems to owe something to Robertson’s careful immersion in other ...”

“... his first translators) Robert Bly. Poets were drawn to translate him too: fellow Northerners like Robin Fulton (for a long time now a resident of Norway, though 48 years ago for small reward he was teaching me geography in Edinburgh) and Robin Robertson, or the Irishman John F. Deane, or now the American Patty ...”

“... you,’ he said, ‘when it fires it’s as if a horse has kicked you back from the grave.’ Robin Robertson, the poet and editor, was born with a heart in which one of the valves – the aortic valve – was composed of only two cusps instead of the usual three. The aortic valve prevents backflow from the aorta into the principal ventricle of the ...”

“... London, Dublin, Chicago, Miami, Sydney and Los Angeles’. He also thanks his longstanding editor, Robin Robertson, for support through ‘a more convoluted journey than we’ve both grown accustomed to over the years’, and from the first pages of Skagboys, it’s clear that Welsh is taking fiction more seriously than he has for a while. Renton’s ...”

“... don’t marry their sisters, and mothers don’t cut their babies’ throats. Six years ago, when Robin Robertson translated Euripides’ Medea, he added an epigraph from a poem of Brecht’s: In the dark times will there also be singing? Yes there will also be singing About the dark times. Perhaps the singing of dark times is popular now because ...”

“... the attentive eye and ear of Shuttle as well as the long-term guidance of the poet and publisher Robin Robertson. Redgrove wrote so much that few readers could keep up with his poetry, his substantial output of fiction, his plays, essays and non-fiction. He returned (sometimes too often) to his most secret compulsions. He shaped them and moved beyond ...”

“... a children’s book. On their way home from a week in the woods of Appalachia, Theo and his son, Robin, listen to the audiobook of Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon (1966), a staple of school reading lists (although a disputed one). After surgical experiments successfully enhance the IQ of a mouse called Algernon, Charlie, who works in a New York City ...”

“... that it wasn’t true, since I contributed a piece to the anthology Mortification, edited by Robin Robertson, about writers’ public embarrassments. I agreed to contribute before the book found its publisher, which turned out to be Fourth Estate, prop. R. Murdoch. Oops. I suspect I’m not the only person to have been caught out, since another ...”

“... Four score years is a long time to wait for the so-called ‘untold story’ of Passchendaele. Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson are Australian historians who tell us, a little loftily, that ‘Great War studies have yet to escape their protracted adolescence.’ Their adult investigation is reminiscent of those relentless inquiries into scams carried out by ...”

“... retreat, Henderson quickly broke into a verse of ‘The Battle of Harlaw’, prompting Jeannie Robertson to let him in so that she might teach him to sing it properly. Scotland’s travelling clans were widely despised and persecuted as a ‘historical anachronism’, but Robertson revealed a marvellous tradition of ...”

“... out against the Nato action as ‘an unpardonable folly’, not only found himself denounced by Robin Cook as ‘the toast of Belgrade’, but also saw both his Party’s and his own personal poll ratings fall. However, the reassertion of Britishness is not a mere by-product of Balkan contingencies. Scottish Labour’s manifesto has trumpeted the ...”

“... under 18th-century mortality levels. At some point in their lives Adam Smith, John Miller, William Robertson and David Hume began to question the theology in which they had been reared: Camic is convinced that ‘their revolution was a union of circumstances’ – in other words, that it was their rearing which freed them for it. That Adam Ferguson did less ...”

“... for the removal of ‘uncompromisingly racial and reactionary’ passages. A Scots judge, Lord Robertson, is the subject of passages like ‘the direction his mind (or what passed for it) was moving ...’ Politicians fare no better. R. A. Butler, in refusing to reopen the Timothy Evans case, showed ‘cowardice and mendacity’ and his successor, Sir ...”

“... and paid less attent-ion to those Scottish Labour politicians, such as Donald Dewar and George Robertson, who anticipated that devolution would settle the Scottish Question, and conveniently kill off the nationalist threat to Labour’s Scottish stronghold. It was unseemly, however, to express such sentiments in the raw. Home Rule was a momentous ...”

“... to the ‘shitty little tape recorder’ they were using (as the Band guitarist Robbie Robertson put it) and the parsimonious 3¼ inches per second recording speed – but none of this mattered, Robertson said, because ‘we weren’t making a record, we were just fooling around.’ The gloomy echo-chamber ...”