The Long Take

The Long Take by the Forward Prize and T S Eliot Prize-winning poet, Robin Robertson, is a moving sequence of poems which together tell the story of one man's healing.

Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy landings and subsequent European operations. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and unable to face a return to his family home in rural Nova Scotia, he goes in search of freedom, change, anonymity and repair. We follow Walker through a sequence of poems as he moves through post-war American cities of New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.