- Published: 5 September 2019
- ISBN: 9780241987308
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 208
Experiments on Reality
- Published: 5 September 2019
- ISBN: 9780241987308
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 208
Simply one of the best non-fiction prose writers currently at work
Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times
Robinson is a stylist of exceptional cadence, tact and ingenuity
Daily Telegraph
One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists
Joseph O'Connor, Guardian
Many landscape writers have striven to give their prose the characteristics of the terrain they are describing. Few have succeeded as fully as Robinson
Robert Macfarlane, Guardian
Dazzling
Giles Foden, Condé Nast Traveller
He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights
John Banville, Guardian
Tim Robinson is the Proust of the western seaboard, a Ruskin of the isles
New Stateman
He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with measured grace, an artist's eye and a scientist's sensibility
Colm Tóibín, Sunday Business Post
Breathtaking ... the West of Ireland has found its ultimate laureate
Patricia Craig, TLS
In this slim volume of essays, typically lyrical and measured, Robinson burgles the bank of his youth in Wharfedale and later years, including National Service in Malaysia and his time as an artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, to map out the topography of his own thoughts and travels.
RTÉ Guide
One of the greatest of all landscape writers ... When the material world is brought forth for us so beautifully, with such rapt attention and illuminating insight, we are reminded of how lucky we are to be part of it
Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times
Experiments on Reality offers another side to Robinson. The abstract and algebraic thinking of his early years as both a mathematician and artist bubble back to the surface and meld with the mossy scents of Connacht and the reflections of age
Sunday Independent
The Proust & Ruskin of modern place-writing, deep-mapper of Irish landscapes, visionary thinker, & human of exceptional intellectual generosity & kindness. He was an immense inspiration to & encourager of me & my work.
Robert Macfarlane