Bøger af Robin Robertson

The work and thought of C. G. Jung (1875-1961) have transformed the world of modern psychology. Jung was an original thinker, but many of his ideas are still largely unknown or misunderstood. His contribution extends beyond the theory and practice of psychology, reaching into fields such as mythology and the history of religions. In this definitive introduction to the work of C.G. Jung, Dr. Robertson explains how the brilliant Swiss psychologist reintroduced the West to the world of the archetypes of the collective unconscious, mythology and the symbols of nature. Robertson explores the structure and dynamics of the psyche, the meaning of dreams, the shadow, the anima, the animus, the mysterious figure of the self and the process of individuation.

A selection of poems spanning the career of a poet of the uncanny Filled with haunting and visionary poems, Sailing the Forest is a selection of the finest work from an essential voice in contemporary poetry. Robin Robertson's deceptively spare and mythically charged work is beautifully brutal, ancient and immediate, and capable of instilling menace and awe into our everyday landscape. These are poems drawn in shadow, tinged with salt and blood, that disarm the reader with their precise language and dreamlike illuminations. Robertson's unique world is a place of forked storms where "Rain . . . is silence turned up high" and we can see "the hay marry the fire / and the fire walk." Through five extraordinary collections, Robertson has captured the intangible, illusory world in razor-sharp language. "The genius of this Scots poet is for finding the sensually charged moment-in a raked northern seascape, in a sexual or gustatory encounter-and depicting it in language that is simultaneously spare and ample, and reminiscent of early Heaney or Hughes" (The New Yorker). Sailing the Forest reveals a wild-hearted poet at the height of his talents.

Robin Robertson's fourth collection is an intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary. The poet's gaze-whether on the natural world or the details of his own life-is unflinching and clear, its utter seriousness leavened by a wry, dry, and disarming humor.Alongside fine translations from Neruda and Montale and dynamic retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems here pitch the power and wonder of nature against the frailty and failure of the human. This is a book of considerable grandeur and sweep that confirms Robertson as one of the most arresting and powerful poets at work today.

Humiliation is not, of course, unique to writers. However, the world of letters does seem to offer a near-perfect micro-climate for embarrassment and shame. There is something about the conjunction of high-mindedness and low income that is inherently comic; something about the very idea of deeply private thoughts -- carefully worked and honed into art over the years -- being presented to a public audience of dubious strangers, that strays perilously close to tragedy. These seventy contributions prove it is possible to reverse Auden's dictum: that art is born out of humiliation.

PRAISE for FRESH FROM THE VEGETARIAN SLOW COOKER "Until now most slow cooker cookbooks have been heavily meat-oriented, leaning mightly on processed, preservative-heavy ingredients. "Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker" changes that. What a good idea! Not just vegetarians, but anyone who needs cooking ease but doesn't want to sacrifice full flavor or health, will rejoice in this inviting book." - Crescent Dragonwagon, James Beard Award-winning author of "Passionate Vegetarian" "This is a carefully written book with many imaginative recipes. Robin Robertson provides an astonishing array of dishes, a wide variety of flavors, and excellent cooking techniques; you and your entire family will be healthier and happier for her efforts." -Annemarie Colbin, author of" Food and Our Bones" and founder of the Natural Gourmet Cookery School, New York City "Leave it to Robin Robertson to inspire us with such a great idea: "Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker" will make you want to go out and buy a slow cooker and start cooking these amazing recipes." - Akasha Richmond, chef and columnist for "Vegetarian Times" "Finding ways to prepare delicious and satisfying slow-cooked foods, especially vegetarian dishes, is a challenge for anyone who travels a busy path. I use a slow cooker a lot, and the recipes in "Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker" entice and inspire me." - Jesse Cool, author of "Your Organic Kitchen "and "Breakfast in Bed"

Este livro trata das descobertas na área da psicologia que foram sistematizadas por Carl Gustav Jung na primeira metade do século XX, e de absoluta relevância para o século XXI. Por meio desta introdução prática ao trabalho e às ideias de Jung, o dr. Robertson explica como o grande médico psiquiatra suíço reintroduziu os ocidentais no mundo dos arquétipos ¿ as imagens do inconsciente coletivo ¿, da mitologia e dos símbolos da natureza. De forma clara, direta e didática, tal como em um curso, ele discute a estrutura e a dinâmica da psique, o significado dos sonhos, a sombra, os tipos psicológicos, os conceitos de anima e animus, e a misteriosa figura do Self. Um livro inspirador, que tornará a empolgante filosofia/psicologia de Jung parte de sua vida, assim como uma busca pela melhor e mais completa versão de si mesmo.

A haunting collection of 'New Scottish Folktales' from award-winning poet Robin Robertson, featuring beautiful drawings throughout and an introduction by writer Val McDermid.

The Plant Protein Revolution Cookbook helps vegans make sure they get enough protein-and offers omnivores and vegetarians robust protein flavors in their plant-based meals.

With 1000 recipes and vegan cooking guidance spread over 640 pages, this book is the most comprehensive, dependable and creative guide available on how to making delicious, vegan meals. Provides detailed, yet accessible, information and guidelines on following a vegan lifestyle Fast icon highlights recipes that take 30-minutes or less.

Twenty-five hundred years ago, Pythagoras taught that the simple counting numbers are the basic building blocks of reality. A century and a half later, Plato argued that the world we live in is but a poor copy of the world of ideas. Neither realized that their numbers and ideas might also be the most basic components of the human psych: archetypes. This book traces the modern evolution of this idea from the Renaissance to the 20th century, leading up to the archetypal hypothesis of psychologist C. G. Jung, and the mirroring of mathematical ideas of Kurt Gödel.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018, this powerful and extraordinary novel follows a D-Day veteran as he goes in search of freedom and repair in post-war America.

In this definitive introduction to the work of C. G. Jung, Dr. Robertson explains how Jung reintroduced Westerners to the world of archetypes--the imagery of the collective unconscious, of mythology, and the symbols in nature. He discusses the structure and dynamics of the psyche, the meaning of dreams, the shadow, the anima/animus, and the mysterious figure of the Self. This practical yet inspiring introduction can make Jung's exciting philosophy/psychology part of your life.

Two best-selling categories come together in this comprehensive book by a best-selling vegetarian and vegan author.

Charged with strangeness and beauty, Hill of Doors is a haunted and haunting book, where each successive poem seems a shape conjured from the shadows, and where the uncanny is made physically present. The collection sees the return of some familiar members of the Robertson company, including Strindberg - heading, as usual, towards calamity - and the shape-shifter Dionysus. Four loose retellings of stories of the Greek god form pillars for the book, alongside four short Ovid versions. Threaded through these are a series of pieces about the poet's childhood on the north-east coast, his fascination with the sea and the islands of Scotland. However, the reader will also discover a distinct new note in Robertson's austere but ravishing poetry: towards the possibility of contentment - a house, a door, a key - finding, at last, a 'happiness of the hand and heart'. Magisterial in its command and range, indelibly moving and memorable in its speech, Hill of Doors is Robin Robertson's most powerful book to date.

Robin Robertson's fourth collection is, if anything, an even more intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book than Swithering, winner of the Forward Prize. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary: the poet's gaze - whether on the natural world or the details of his own life - is unflinching and clear, its utter seriousness leavened by a wry, dry and disarming humour. Alongside fine translations from Neruda and Montale and dynamic (and at times horrific) retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems in The Wrecking Light pitch the power and wonder of nature against the frailty and failure of the human. Ghosts sift through these poems - certainties become volatile, the simplest situations thicken with strangeness and threat - all of them haunted by the pressure and presence of the primitive world against our own, and the kind of dream-like intensity of description that has become Robertson's trademark. This is a book of considerable grandeur and sweep which confirms Robertson as one of the most arresting and powerful poets at work today. 'Robin Robertson continues to explore the bleak, beautiful territory that he has made his own. His stripped-bare lyricism, haunted by echoes of folksong, is as unforgiving as the weather and poems such as 'At Roane Head' show him writing at the height of his considerable powers' The Times

WINNER OF THE 2006 FORWARD PRIZE In Scots, the verb 'swither' has two meanings: to be doubtful, to waver, to be in two minds; and to appear in shifting forms - indeterminate and volatile. From disarmingly direct poems about the end of childhood to erotically charged lyrics about the ends of desire, Robertson's powerful third collection is stalked and haunted by both senses. Hard-edged, pitch-perfect, effortlessly various, Swithering is a book of brave and black romance, locating its voice in that space where great change is an ever-present possibility. Swithering has just won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and is also shortlisted for this year's T.S. Eliot Prize.

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A collection of stories from some of the world's greatest writers about their own public humiliation.