The Look of Goodbye

<p><em>The Look of Goodbye</em> contains Peter Robinson's poetry from his last half dozen years living and working in Sendai and Kyoto. Difficulties associated with having your heart in Europe and your life in Japan are explored across the shadowy terrains of a world grown decidedly more at risk dangerous and violent. The stays of love friendship family place and memory are tested by death loss and displacement; yet Robinson's poetry celebrates all that it can by means of the poet's rhythm formal dexterity and his eye for the energised processes of landscape and atmosphere. Composed at the same time as their author began to write and publish aphorisms these poems show Robinson extending his range of subjects and developing the fresh directness with which he treats them. While bidding farewell to his Japanese years <em>The Look of Goodbye</em> is as welcoming of readers new and returning as ever.</p>